He researches collaborative environmental planning and management, specifically focusing on projects to enhance social-ecological resilience of communities and ecosystems in the face of disturbance. His recent work on community resiliency includes work with Dr. Robert Deyle on how low-resource communities can plan for climate change and its associated impacts in the face of uncertainty. In particular, Butler has been examining climate adaptation planning in Florida coastal communities where sea level rise and increasing tropical cyclone intensity challenge assumptions of hazard mitigation and land use planning. Read Less