Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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Joint Probability Modeling for Two Debris-Flow Variables: Copula Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)This paper presents joint probability modeling for debris flows’ maximum impact pressure and total sediment discharge through the use of the copula theory that has been proven useful to joint probability modeling. On the ... -
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 ... -
Heritage and Postdisaster Recovery: Indigenous Community Resilience
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Unlike housing, heritage is rarely prioritized in recovery planning, especially when the site subject to preservation was abandoned even before the disaster occurred. The fact that the preservation of indigenous architecture ... -
Assessment and Prioritization of Flood Protection Levees along the Lower Tapi River, India
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Surat city, located on the banks of the Tapi River near the Arabian Sea in India, has faced the wrath of severe flooding in the recent past. There has been an alarming reduction in the safe carrying capacity of the river ... -
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Preferences for Earthquake Risk–Mitigation Mechanisms: Experimental Evidence
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)This study investigates two risk-reduction mechanisms: self-insurance and market insurance. Specifically, it examines individuals’ preferences and valuations for these mechanisms to mitigate the earthquake risk in Turkey. ... -
Analyzing Spatial-Temporal Distribution of Natural Hazards in China by Mining News Sources
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Natural hazards cause severe consequences to society, the economy, and the environment. However, it is difficult to analyze natural hazards occurrences in China because there is no complete natural hazard database in China, ... -
Seismic Stability of Seawalls under Earthquake and Tsunami Forces Using a Modified Pseudodynamic Method
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The 211 Tohoku earthquake demonstrates the significance of seismic aftershocks to examine in the design of marine structures. The seawalls in seismic zones are prone to the joint action of tsunami wave forces and earthquake ... -
Simulation of Rain Penetration and Associated Damage in Buildings within a Hurricane Vulnerability Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Recent large-scale tests provided valuable insight into the wind driven rain deposition distribution and subsequent water surface run-off for low-rise buildings in hurricane conditions. These tests led to better understanding ... -
Mitigation Strategies to Protect Petrochemical Infrastructure and Nearby Communities during Storm Surge
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)This paper explores engineering- and social science-based strategies to mitigate risks posed by aboveground storage tanks (ASTs) during storm events. The Houston Ship Channel (HSC) is used as a case study to illustrate the ... -
Coproduction Design of Contingency Planning in Emergency Governance Structure: Qualitative Metasynthesis of Chinese Local Government
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Contingency plans increasingly highlight the importance of coproduction design in improving the effectiveness of interactive emergency governance. However, most extant studies on this topic adopt different perspectives and ... -
Linking Building Attributes and Tornado Vulnerability Using a Logistic Regression Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The residential building stock in the United States suffers a disproportionately large amount of tornado damage, which is linked to vulnerability of the building and its components. Whereas the building stock exhibits a ... -
Integrated Engineering-Economic Model for the Assessment of Regional Economic Vulnerability to Tsunamis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The impact of a tsunami can vary greatly across short distances due to differences in topography, building structures, concentration of economic activities in the inundation zone, and economic linkages beyond the inundation ... -
Housing Recovery after Disasters: Primary versus Seasonal and Vacation Housing Markets in Coastal Communities
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Recovery of seasonal housing after disasters is driven by different types of decisions and resource streams than those of year-round homes. Given the importance of seasonal rentals in the economies of coastal and particularly ... -
Establishing Characteristics to Operationalize Resilience for Lifeline Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The purpose of this paper is to provide information useful for creating and maintaining resilient utility lifeline systems. In part, the information presented helps to answer the question: “What is a resilient lifeline ... -
Using Storm Transposition to Investigate the Relationships between Hydrologic Responses and Spatial Moments of Catchment Rainfall
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The dependence between spatiotemporally varied rainfall and watershed hydrology has long been recognized and studied using either synthetic or real storms/watersheds. To examine the relationship, the authors apply the storm ... -
Mitigation of Basement Flooding due to Sewer Backup: Overview and Experimental Investigation of Backwater Valve Performance
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Extreme rainfall–related urban flooding and consequently, basement flooding due to sewer surcharge, has become one of the most significant drivers of disaster losses in Canada. It has been recommended that homeowners living ... -
Role of Predisaster Construction Market Conditions in Influencing Postdisaster Demand Surge
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The postdisaster survival of cities and communities depends on their capabilities to reconstruct and repair damaged buildings following large-scale natural disasters. The socioeconomic phenomenon of increased construction ... -
Probabilistic Wind Risk Assessment Induced by Hurricanes on Economically Vulnerable Households in Mexico
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The economically vulnerable households in Mexico are used as an illustrative case study to present wind risk assessment induced by hurricanes, in which the risk parameters are assessed in an event-based probabilistic ... -
Funding Resilient Infrastructure on the Quick: US Federal Transit Disaster Programs after Superstorm Sandy
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The applied concept of resilience has garnered attention in the public eye and academic scholarship in the past decade. Through a rise in popularity, its meaning has morphed depending upon scale, audience, and what system ...