Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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Development of an Interactive Escape Room Intervention to Educate College Students about Earthquake Preparedness
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Interactive education strategies have been shown to be more effective in increasing knowledge of disaster preparedness than dissemination of written materials and lectures. To educate college students at a university, an ... -
Exploring Stakeholder Views on Disaster Resilience Practices of Residential Communities in South Florida
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Disaster resilience is a shared responsibility among all stakeholders. There is sorely a need to engage multiple stakeholders in collaboratively creating and facilitating the disaster resilience of residential communities. ... -
Performance of On-Site Earthquake Early Warning System Using Strong-Motion Records from Recent Earthquakes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)The method of on-site earthquake early warning was proposed in the past decade to enhance seismic preparedness and safety measures for areas close to the earthquake epicenter. The method leverages critical information ... -
Hindcasting Community-Level Damage to the Interdependent Buildings and Electric Power Network after the 2011 Joplin, Missouri, Tornado
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Tornados are common natural hazards that occur in the United States and result in social and economic loss. Resiliency of communities prone to tornadoes can be enhanced through the use of risk-informed decision-making ... -
Insights from a Stated Preference Experiment of Florida Residents: Role of Information and Incentives in Hurricane Risk Mitigation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)For decades, Florida residents have lost billions of dollars in property damage because of wind and wind-driven rainwater intrusion from tropical cyclones. Engineers and scientists have demonstrated that future losses can ... -
Measuring the Potential for Toxic Exposure from Storm Surge and Sea-Level Rise: Analysis of Coastal Virginia
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Recent tropical cyclones in the United States have underscored the potential for such storms to expose large numbers of people to potentially high levels of toxic contamination when industrial and waste facilities are ... -
Forecasting Local Sales Tax Revenues in the Aftermath of a Hurricane: Application of the Hurricane Resiliency Index
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)This paper focuses on exploring the capability of the recently developed Hurricane Resiliency Index (HRI) to predict future changes in sales tax revenues at the local level. Monthly data for Houston metropolitan statistical ... -
Community of Practice for Modeling Disaster Recovery
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)The goal of this paper is to facilitate a community of practice for disaster recovery modeling. This community should include hazard and disaster researchers without modeling experience and modelers with no experience in ... -
Agricultural Pest Management Policies during Drought: Case Studies in Australia and the State of Palestine
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Due to increases in water demand—caused by escalating increases in population and water deficiency and scarcity—and due to the increase in climate change and global warming impacts, much focus has been directed to regional ... -
Hydrologic Drought Change Detection
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)This study detects changes in hydrologic drought indices (HDIs), including magnitude (i.e., daily mean, low flows, and flow quantiles), variability (i.e., coefficient of variation), and duration, at 22 stations ... -
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 ... -
Flash Flood Risk and the Paradox of Urban Development
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)This paper traces the historic development of flood risk and the antecedent conditions that contributed to the catastrophic consequences in central South Carolina as the result of the 215 flash flood. The study draws on ... -
Nonprofit Organizations and Community Disaster Recovery: Assessing the Value and Impact of Intersector Collaboration
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)A 29 flooding disaster in Alaska produced a unique intersector operational collaborative model between voluntary nonprofit organizations and state and federal agencies. This article investigates the value and impact of ... -
Methodology to Assess Potential Flood Damages in Urban Areas under the Influence of Climate Change
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Frequencies of extreme precipitation are likely to increase under changing climate, which may result in more damage to exposed properties in the future. This study presents a methodological framework for estimating potential ... -
Detention Ponds for Managing Flood Risk due to Increased Imperviousness: Case Study in an Urbanizing Catchment of India
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Land-use change has been identified as one of the major factors responsible for change in runoff and therefore flood risk in urban areas. The present study quantifies the flood risk imposed as a result of increased ... -
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Assessment of a Regional Flood Disaster Indicator via an Entropy Weighting Method
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)With the limited resources for disaster prevention and reduction, it is crucial that a flooding disaster hazard level is established. Therefore, this study establishes the flooding disaster indicator (FDI), which serves ... -
Evaluation of Quantitative Precipitation Predictions by ECMWF, CMA, and UKMO for Flood Forecasting: Application to Two Basins in China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Numerical weather predictions (NWPs) are very useful in hydrological modeling, including for river flow forecasting and flood warning in river basins. However, uncertainties in NWPs also significantly impact the accuracy ... -
Emergency Response and Back Analysis of the Failures of Earthquake Triggered Cascade Landslide Dams on the Mianyuan River, China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)This study has reviewed the emergency action and drainage process of the Xiaogangjian, Xiaogangjian-lower, and Yibadao cascade landslide dams that were formed during the 28 Wenchuan earthquake in China’s southwest Sichuan ... -
Estimating Residential Property Loss Reduction from a Proposed Coastal Barrier System in the Houston-Galveston Region
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)In the wake of increasing development in coastal metropolitan areas, there are growing concerns about the impact of a potential storm surge event on residential properties. This study examines how a coastal storm surge ...