Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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Cultural Competence for Hazards and Disaster Researchers: Framework and Training Module
(ASCE, 2021-11-17)Although the need for cultural competence among healthcare service providers and other practitioners has long been recognized, there has been much less focus on this concept in the field of hazards and disaster research. ... -
Overview of Interdependency Models of Critical Infrastructure for Resilience Assessment
(ASCE, 2021-11-08)Critical infrastructure systems are interdependent to ensure normal operations for supporting a national economy and social well-being. In the wake of a disaster, such interdependencies may introduce additional vulnerability ... -
Managed Retreat in the Face of Climate Change: Examining Factors Influencing Buyouts of Floodplain Properties
(ASCE, 2021-12-14)Managed retreat from hazardous areas is a long-term strategy for mitigating natural disaster risks and adapting to climate change. In the United States, managed retreat is often sponsored by governments through acquiring ... -
Do Perverse Insurance Incentives Encourage Coastal Vulnerability?
(ASCE, 2021-11-02)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 ... -
Detecting Disasters and Disaster Recovery in Southeast Asia: Findings from Space
(ASCE, 2021-12-17)This paper builds on the group of studies that have used satellite night light data to measure the impact of natural disasters on economic development. It examines the dynamics of disasters using monthly subnational-level ... -
Hydrodynamic Study of the Impact of Extreme Flooding Events on Wastewater Treatment Plants Considering Total Water Level
(ASCE, 2021-10-28)Climate change, sea level rise, and storm surge events are now significant factors threatening critical water and wastewater infrastructure. Extreme storm events have increased the need for the preparation required to face ... -
Sham Legality: Analyzing Taiwanese Experiences in Responding to COVID-19 in 2020
(ASCE, 2021-09-30)Modern governments strive to enhance their emergency management capacity and establish multiple policy tools that can help reduce damage caused by natural and human hazards. Among these institutional mechanisms, the ... -
The Point of No Return: Adaptation Strategies in Disaster Donation Supply Chains
(ASCE, 2021-09-29)In the aftermath of disasters, material convergence (the influx of material donations) can cause extreme negative impacts and has been described as a second disaster. Donations that are nonpriority or low-priority goods, ... -
Extreme Flood Events in India and Attribution to Climate Change: An Analysis of News Media Coverage from 2013–2019 during Bihar Floods
(ASCE, 2021-09-29)This study analyzes the news media coverage of floods in a major flood-prone state of India, Bihar. Although news media helps shape public perception and political actions, little analysis of this means of communication ... -
Response Efficacy Perception and Taking Action to Prepare for Disasters with Different Lead Time
(ASCE, 2021-10-12)This study investigated how disaster types, namely those with shorter and longer warning lead times, contextualized individuals’ preparatory actions, especially those associated with their response efficacy perception ... -
Quantification of Compound Flooding over Roadway Network during Extreme Events for Planning Emergency Operations
(ASCE, 2021-12-21)Hurricanes cause substantial inundation of transportation networks, rendering them inaccessible to emergency response vehicles. Because storm tides and heavy rainfall often co-occur during hurricanes, a reliable assessment ... -
Challenges to the Fire Service–Centric Emergency Management System
(ASCE, 2021-09-28)Taiwan has a population of 23.6 million on just 36,000 km2. This densely populated area is highly vulnerable to destructive natural hazards and thus the Taiwanese government is constantly focusing on improving its ... -
Developing a Global Method for Normalizing Economic Loss from Natural Disasters
(ASCE, 2021-11-10)Our understanding of past natural catastrophes has important implications for catastrophe modeling and disaster risk management, mitigation, and adaptation. To assess past events, loss “normalization” is used to isolate ... -
Seismic Loss Estimation Using Experimental Fragility and Vulnerability Functions: Case Study of Buzau County, Romania
(ASCE, 2021-09-24)This paper is focused on the seismic risk assessment of Buzau County in Romania. This county overlays the most active seismic source in the region, namely, the Vrancea intermediate-depth seismic source which has produced ... -
Barriers and Possibilities for Interdisciplinary Disaster Science Research: Critical Appraisal of the Literature
(ASCE, 2021-09-23)The strength and speed of modeling software has increased drastically in recent years. As it does so, researchers across a variety of fields work to determine how most effectively to utilize this strength and speed. Many ... -
Comparison of Near-Surface Wind Speed Estimation Techniques Using Different Damage Indicators from a Damage Survey of Naplate, IL EF-3 Tornado
(ASCE, 2021-09-22)Estimation of tornado wind speed can be extremely difficult, especially near the ground where tornado damage occurs. Because of limitations of in situ measurements, ground-based damage surveys continue to be the most ... -
Assessment of Urban Flood Risk Factors Using Monte Carlo Analytical Hierarchy Process
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)Sustainability of the built environment is endangered by urban floods, which the frequency and impact of which have increased incrementally due to rapid population growth, unplanned urbanization, and insufficient ... -
Exploring the Spatial Development of Watersheds and the Allocation of Responsibility for Stormwater Runoff from the Perspective of Ecological Efficiency Based on the DEA Method
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)Urbanization leads to many stormwater runoff problems. Additionally, due to unbalanced regional development, it has become particularly difficult to clarify responsibility for runoff. Reasonable and effective methods for ... -
Understanding Infrastructure Resilience, Social Equity, and Their Interrelationships: Exploratory Study Using Social Media Data in Hurricane Michael
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)The 2030 Global Sustainable Development Agenda of the United Nations highlights the importance of understanding the interlinkages of infrastructure, inequality, and resilience. However, there is limited research that studies ... -
Behavior of Rural Victims and Local Government during Post-Disaster Reconstruction: Agent-Based Simulation
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)Concentrated rural settlement (CRS) was used for housing reconstruction in Sichuan Province, China, after the Wenchuan earthquake. Although CRS is claimed to provide enhanced infrastructure and public services, a sufficient ...