Mike Wilson is an associate policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. His work focuses on energy and the environment, risk and uncertainty, data analysis and visualization, and urban infrastructure. As a licensed landscape architect, his prior professional experience ranges from large-scale economic development projects to disaster recovery and resilience. Wilson has published research on emergency management, stormwater planning, and flood insurance. Since 2013, he has had a mayoral appointment to the Boston Conservation Commission, which regulates the city’s urban development in the floodplain as well as wetland, riverine, and coastal ecosystems.
Wilson received his Ph.D. in urban planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also was awarded an MLA and MUP from Harvard University in landscape architecture and urban planning, as well as an AB in environmental science and policy from Harvard University.
Selected Publications
Michael T. Wilson, "Assessing voluntary resilience standards and impacts of flood risk information," Building Research & Information, 48(1), 2020
Michael T. Wilson and Carolyn Kousky, "The Long Road to Adoption: How Long Does it Take to Adopt Updated County‐Level Flood Insurance Rate Maps?" Risk, Hazards, and Crisis in Public Policy, 10(4), 2019
Alan M. Berger, Michael T. Wilson, Jonah Susskind and Richard J. Zeckhauser , "Theorizing the resilience district: Design-based decision making for coastal climate change adaptation," Journal of Landscape Architecture, 15(1), 2020
Michael T. Wilson, "Catastrophes and their Classifications: Revising New York City’s Hurricane Evacuation Maps after Irene and Sandy," Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, 15(2), 2018
Michael T. Wilson, Jordan R. Fischbach, Kyle Siler-Evans, and Devin Tierney, "Modeling the uncertainty of potential impacts on Robust Stormwater Management from neighborhood-scale impervious cover change: a case study of population-based scenarios in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania," Urban Water Journal, 2020
