Abstract: Subsidized insurance is often described as a perverse incentive, moral hazard, or maladaptation that perpetuates coastal residencies in vulnerable homes despite increasing safety and economic risks from hurricanes, sea ...

Abstract: Coastal communities are increasingly vulnerable to devastating losses caused by extreme climatological events such as hurricanes. As risk escalates, an urgent need arises to accelerate learning from these disasters. ...

Abstract: Access to affordable and safe housing represents a critical challenge for many low- and middle-income countries. Technical and economic constraints frequently lead aspiring homeowners in these countries toward informally ...

Abstract: The NatHaz Aerodynamic Loads Database (NALD) (http://aerodata.ce.nd.edu) introduced in 2000 has served an important first step in establishing an on-line experimental archive of high-frequency base balance (HFBB) data for ...

Abstract: It is estimated that more than 300,000 people were killed in the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, hundreds of thousands more were injured, and approximately 1.3 million people were left homeless due to the failure of the ...

Abstract: The COVID-19 era has witnessed numerous successful and unsuccessful attempts to adapt or reconfigure physical, virtual, and hybrid aspects of the built environment in order to mitigate the risks of co-occuring (i.e.,&nbs ...

Abstract: Recent advancements in technology and infrastructure have greatly improved the capabilities of the natural hazards community to collect robust samples of building performance following hazard events and make them available ...

Abstract: Although organizations build housing in resource-limited contexts after typhoons and other disasters that is intended to be safer than what existed previously, the performance of these houses in future typhoons—and the ...

Abstract: Tall buildings are one of the few constructed facilities whose design relies solely upon analytical and scaled models, which, though based upon fundamental mechanics and years of research and experience, has yet to be ...