Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Knowledge Transfer between Researchers and Practitioners
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)This study assesses the knowledge transfer process in the natural hazards and disasters field. The study includes 78 interviews with a diverse sample of hazards professionals. How information travels—or does not travel—from ... -
Strategies for Improving Response and Recovery in the Future
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)The United States has experienced a series of major disasters that have accumulated a total cost, measured in lives lost (or changed forever) and public/private expenditures of funds, of an overwhelming magnitude. With ... -
Guest Editorial
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By Design: The Disaster Resistant and Quality-of-Life Community
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)We require no less than a whole new way of thinking about how we design and build our communities in natural hazard areas—seismic, coastal, and watersheds—if we are to ensure our societies' safety, health, and overall ... -
Creating Hazard Resilient Communities through Land-Use Planning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)The Second National Assessment on Natural and Related Technological Hazards calls land-use planning the single most promising approach for bringing about sustainable hazard mitigation. This article describes the essential ... -
Businesses and Disasters: Empirical Patterns and Unanswered Questions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)Through five systematic, large-scale mail surveys conducted since 1993, the Disaster Research Center has obtained data on hazard awareness, preparedness, disaster impacts, and short- and long-term recovery among 5,000 ... -
Environmental Degradation and Vulnerability in Cuba
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)The paper presents a review of what is known about environmental degradation and vulnerability in Cuba. It has sections on air pollution, water pollution, deforestation, soil degradation, decaying urban infrastructure, and ... -
From Response to Resilience: Emergency Management Reform in New Zealand
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)New Zealand is currently reforming its emergency management structures and frameworks. The aim of the reform is to shift the focus from responding to emergencies once they have occurred, to managing the risks each community ... -
Politics of Hazard Mitigation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)The formulation, adoption, and implementation of mitigation measures is an intensely political process that hazards professionals need to understand if they are to be effective in reducing community hazard vulnerability. ... -
Insurance as Cornerstone for Public-Private Sector Partnerships
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)Society faces large challenges as to how we will deal with the increasing losses from natural, technological, and environmental hazards. Residents in hazard-prone areas are reluctant to protect themselves before the event ... -
The Tornado Problem: Forecast, Warning, and Response
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)Research on tornadoes over the last 20 years has been conducted by a combination of universities, research institutions, federal agencies, and more recently by private meteorological companies. Recent advances in scientific ... -
Hazard Warning Systems: Review of 20 Years of Progress
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)The United States has no comprehensive national warning strategy that covers all hazards in all places. Instead, public warning practices are decentralized across different governments and the private sector. Uneven ... -
Disasters as Agents of Social Change in Recovery and Reconstruction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)This paper highlights a variety of studies on disaster recovery and reconstruction, some showing that political, economic, and social change is unlikely after disasters; some showing that change occurs frequently after ... -
What the IDNDR Has Meant to the Earthquake Community
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)The International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) has had a profound relationship with the earthquake community. It was, in a sense, the brainchild of the earthquake community since the concept for the IDNDR ... -
The Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction in Canada
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)This paper describes the steps taken in forming the Canadian National Committee (CNC) for the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR). The Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Engineering ... -
World Bank's Role in Reducing Impacts of Disasters
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)The mission of the World Bank is to fight poverty. An important part of this mission is to assist developing countries to prepare for and recover from natural disasters. The World Bank has a long tradition of supporting ... -
Recent History of Japan's Disaster Mitigation and the Impact of IDNDR
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)This paper describes activities that were conducted in Japan under the umbrella of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), including the first tangible contribution by Japan, after World War II, ... -
Guest Editorial
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An International Disaster Recovery Business Alliance
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)There is an urgent need for increasing the capacity for business recovery in communities throughout the world. This goal is a major challenge for the 21st century and requires that we find innovative ways for creating ...