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Gender and Evacuation: A Closer Look at Why Women Are More Likely to Evacuate for Hurricanes
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: Studies of hurricane evacuation have often noted that women are more likely than men to evacuate, yet few examined those differences and tried to explain them. This paper undertakes a series of bivariate and multivariate ...
Comparative Assessment of Impacts and Recovery from Hurricane Floyd among Student and Community Households1
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: This research capitalizes on a unique opportunity to undertake a comparative assessment of the social and economic impacts of Floyd-related flooding on two distinct populations in one of the region’s most severely affected ...
Riding Out the Storm: Experiences of the Physically Disabled during Hurricanes Bonnie, Dennis, and Floyd
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: The writers examined the experiences during Hurricanes Bonnie, Dennis, and Floyd of households in eastern North Carolina that included a member with a physical disability and contrasted them with those of other households. ...
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