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DAMLA KURU (she/her/hers)

Visiting Scholar
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
PHILADELPHIA, PA

Damla Kuru is a visiting scholar in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research interests relate to environmental planning/policymaking, local-level climate change adaptation, climate migration, and environmental justice. Her current research explores how climate migration affects urban systems and the role of planning in addressing the pressures on natural and built environment. She works in a research team on a research project exploring physical, socio-economic, and ecological outcomes for domestic climate migration-receiving areas in Northeast Region. Prior to joining LARP, she received her Ph.D. in Public Affairs at Florida International University, and her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in City & Regional Planning and Urban Design respectively at Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey. Her doctoral research investigated the factors that affected community relocations as a response to rapid-onset shocks—hurricanes and as an adaptation to slow-onset stresses—climate change in Monroe County, Florida. This research was funded by the Quick Response Grant by the Natural Hazards Center in Boulder (through their National Science Foundation-funded program). She published her research in Housing Policy Debate Journal and has been working on several research projects. Further information is available on her website: https://damlakuru.github.io/

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