Browsing Natural Hazards Review by Title
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2015 Memorial Day Flood Impacts for Changing Watershed Conditions in Houston
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A Bayesian Network Modeling Approach for Time-Varying Flood Resilience Assessment of Housing Infrastructure System
(ASCE, 2022-02-07)Natural hazard causes severe types of damage to infrastructure systems at regular intervals, and the occurrence of such events is inevitable. The concept of resilience is adopted to make infrastructure systems more reliable, ... -
A Community Impact Scale for Regional Disaster Planning with Transportation Disruption
(ASCE, 2022/05/23)This paper proposes a simple analytical scheme and associated qualitative impact scales that capture the spatially varying effects of a regional disaster. Large-scale disasters that affect many towns and cities pose ... -
A Data-Driven Approach to Landslide-Susceptibility Mapping in Mountainous Terrain: Case Study from the Northwest Himalayas, Pakistan
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)This study develops a landslide susceptibility map using a data-driven approach and taking the district Muzaffarabad, northwest Himalayas, Pakistan, as a case study. The Muzaffarabad district was severely affected by the ... -
A GIS-Based Model for Integrating Risk Estimations of Residential Building Damage and Shelter Capacity in the Case of Earthquakes
(ASCE, 2020)This research aims at developing a geographic information system (GIS)–based model for integrating risk estimation for residential building damage with risk estimation for shelter capacity by number of evacuees. The former ... -
A Piece of the Puzzle: Insurance Industry Perspective on Mitigation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)As the risk reduction community seeks to harness innumerable resources available and mold them into effective mitigation programs, communication and understanding among stakeholders are more critical than ever. The insurance ... -
A Scenario-Driven Fault-Control Decision Support Model for Disaster Preparedness Using Case-Based Reasoning
(ASCE, 2023/11/01)To reduce disaster response failures, controlling disaster preparedness faults is essential. Emergency management departments should analyze the lack of capability as soon as an early warning is released and make adaptive ... -
A Unified Multievent Windstorm Performance Testbed for Single-Family Residential Buildings
(ASCE, 2024/05/01)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 ... -
Acceptable Risk: A Need for Periodic Review
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)From time to time, in designing or assessing the adequacy of facilities to withstand the damaging effects of natural hazards, it is appropriate to reexamine the topic of acceptable risk. This paper has been prepared in the ... -
Accessibility and Recovery Assessment of Houston’s Roadway Network due to Fluvial Flooding during Hurricane Harvey
(ASCE, 2020)The record-breaking rainfall produced by Hurricane Harvey resulted in catastrophic and prolonged impacts on Houston’s transportation infrastructure, inundating entire neighborhoods and rendering them inaccessible to emergency ... -
Accuracy of <i>HAZUS</i> General Building Stock Data
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)The accuracy of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s HAZUS general building stock (HGBS), widely used to estimate potential monetary damage to building structures from floods, earthquakes, or hurricanes, is quantified ... -
Actively Searching for Hazards Information
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2004)Much of the hazards literature on information transfer focuses on how individuals passively acquire hazards information by monitoring what comes across their desks and computer screens. This paper highlights a complementary ... -
Adaptive Capacity under Chronic Stressors: Assessment of Water Infrastructure Resilience in 2015 Nepalese Earthquake Using a System Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The objective of the study presented in this paper is to investigate determinants of resilience in water infrastructure systems in developing countries using the case study of the 215 Nepalese Earthquake. Because of ... -
Adoption of Insurance Coverage and Modes of Information Transfer: Case Study of Eastern North Carolina Floodplain Residents
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2002)In September 1999, the passage of Hurricane Floyd created a catastrophic flood in eastern North Carolina. Residents of floodplains across the region were forced to evacuate their homes on short notice. Upon their return a ... -
Affordability of the National Flood Insurance Program: Application to Charleston County, South Carolina
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016) -
After Sandy: Rethinking Flood Risk Management in Asian Coastal Megacities
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014) -
Agent-Based Simulation of Building Evacuation after an Earthquake: Coupling Human Behavior with Structural Response
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The safety of building occupants during and immediately after disasters, such as a major earthquake, is highly dependent on the way in which people interact with the damaged physical environment. While there are extensive ... -
Agent-Based Simulation of Building Evacuation after an Earthquake: Coupling Human Behavior with Structural Response
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The safety of building occupants during and immediately after disasters, such as a major earthquake, is highly dependent on the way in which people interact with the damaged physical environment. While there are extensive ... -
Agricultural Damages and Losses from ARkStorm Scenario Flooding in California
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Scientists designed the ARkStorm scenario to challenge the preparedness of California communities for widespread flooding with a historical precedence and increased likelihood under climate change. California is an important ... -
Agricultural Damages and Losses from ARkStorm Scenario Flooding in California
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Scientists designed the ARkStorm scenario to challenge the preparedness of California communities for widespread flooding with a historical precedence and increased likelihood under climate change. California is an important ...