Sina Razzaghi Asl
7025 BATTER ARTS & LETTERS
NORFOLK, 23529
Sina Razzaghi Asl is an interdisciplinary social and environmental scientist whose work lies at the intersection of hazards geography and nature-based solutions. His research addresses the challenge of integrating nature-based solutions' various spatial and social characteristics in disaster vulnerability and hazards frameworks across diverse contexts and scales. He employs advanced geospatial techniques, remote sensing, and spatial statistical analyses to examine the complex relationships between various types of nature-based solutions, social vulnerability indicators, and hazard outcomes. His goal is to inform strategies that mitigate the adverse impacts of climate change. He published many research articles in top-tier journals, including Science of the Total Environment, Progress in Physical Geography, Natural Hazards, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Environmental Hazards, and several conference papers. He also serves as the co-director of the Hazards, Risks, and Disasters Specialty Group (HRDSG) at AAG and the editorial board member in Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy journal. Before joining to 98ÌÃ, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University's Canter for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE).
Ph.D. in Geography, Temple University, (2023)
Ph.D. in Landscape, Iran University of Science and Technology, (2011)
Geospatial Data Science Graduate CertificateSponsoring Organization: Temple UniversityDate Obtained: 2023-12-01
Research Interests
Hazards Geography
Nature-based Solutions
Disaster Vulnerability
Flood Hazards
Geospatial Data Science
Environmental Planning and Modeling
Articles
Razzaghi Asl, S. (2025). Green spaces and flood vulnerability in urbanising regions: a case study in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Environmental Hazards , pp. 1–23.Azadgar , A., Gańcza, A., Razzaghi Asl, S., Salata, S. and Nyka, L. (2025). Optimizing nature-based solutions for urban flood risk mitigation: A multi-objective genetic algorithm approach in Gdańsk, Poland. Science of The Total Environment 963 (178303).Razzaghi Asl, S., Rahman, A., Tate, E., Lehman, W. and Wing, O. (2025). Social Vulnerability Correlates of Flood Risk to Crops and Buildings. . Natural Hazards 121 , pp. 8137–8158.Razzaghi Asl, S., Drakes, O., Tate, E., Brody, S., Highfield, W. and Atoba, K. (2025). The Influence of Scale in Modeling Social Vulnerability and Disaster Assistance. Annals of the American Association of Geographers , pp. 1-21.
- 2024: Gilbert F. White Award for Best PhD Dissertation in the Field of Hazards Geography, Association of American Geographers
- 2023: Jeanne X. Kasperson Student Paper Competition winner, Association of American Geographers
- 2023: Olen Paul Matthews and Kathleen A. Dwyer Fund for Water Resources Award for Best Physical Geography Paper, Association of American Geographers