Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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Developing a Framework for Measuring Water Supply Resilience
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The resilience of communities to earthquakes is a function of the performance of infrastructure and, specifically, water supply systems in the aftermath of the disaster and their serviceability during the recovery time. ... -
Measuring Community Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards: A Method for Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Data
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)This article has developed and implemented a method for incorporating and combining quantitative and qualitative data in measuring community vulnerability to environmental hazards. To illustrate the method in practice, a ... -
Fatality and Injury Prediction Model for Tornadoes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Over the last 1 years, tornadoes have caused the highest number of fatalities among natural hazards in the United States. Supercell-spawned tornadoes can be in excess of 1 km wide and often have long tracks that ... -
Flood Risk Assessment, Future Trend Modeling, and Risk Communication: A Review of Ongoing Research
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Flooding is one of the most devastating and deadly natural disasters. Every year, millions of people are affected by flooding worldwide, with massive economic losses that average around $5 billion annually. Over the ... -
Discrepancy in Perceived Hurricane Risks in a Changing Climate
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Buildings are constructed for lifespans of several decades. Thus the decisions made to construct and retrofit buildings should properly take into account the risk profile in the future. Recent studies have suggested that ... -
From Climate Change to National Security: Analysis of the Obama Administration’s Federal Resilience Mandates and Measures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)This article provides an empirical basis for understanding the Obama administration’s resilience policy mandates and measures in the United States. Specifically, this article seeks to evaluate two propositions. The first ... -
Government Agency Communication during Postdisaster Reconstruction: Insights from the Christchurch Earthquakes Recovery
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Providing information to the public is critical for government agencies during times of crisis. However, little is known about the communications that take place in the long term after disasters and emergencies. How are ... -
Increasing Preparedness for Wildfires by Informing Residents of Their Community’s Social Norms
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Despite being informed about the risks of wildfires and what can be done to reduce these risks, many Australian residents in areas prone to wildfires still do not adequately prepare for them. A more effective strategy is ... -
Preparedness is a Marathon, Not a Sprint: A Tiered Maturity Model for Assessing Preparedness in Homeless Residential Organizations in Los Angeles
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Community-based organizations (CBOs) are critical to supporting homeless individuals during disasters. However, CBOs often have difficulty engaging in preparedness planning, and are often unable to prioritize business ... -
Perception and Communication of Seismic Risk: Design and Implementation of a Functional Tool
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)A web-based system is designed and implemented as a risk communication tool to incentivize the public to take seismic risk mitigation measures. Risk denotes the expected monetary and social losses herein. The objective of ... -
Risk Perceptions of Future Hurricanes: Survey Evidence from the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)This study investigates the determinants that shape individual risk perceptions of future hurricanes and hurricane-related impacts in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic United States. Using a survey of 1,143 respondents, ... -
Planning for Natural Hazards: Robust Approach for High-Speed Rail Infrastructure
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)High-speed rail (HSR) infrastructure is often built in areas prone to multiple hazards. In the planning stage, large areas and substantially different configurations can be considered, but appraising the solutions is a ... -
Seismic Characterization and Vulnerability of Building Stock in Hilly Regions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Because of the limitations posed by the topographic conditions, buildings located on hill slopes have highly irregular configurations in comparison with buildings located on flat terrain. Extensive field surveys were ... -
Fragility Curves for Assessing the Resilience of Electricity Networks Constructed from an Extensive Fault Database
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Robust infrastructure networks are vital to ensure community resilience; their failure leads to severe societal disruption and they have important postdisaster functions. However, as these networks consist of interconnected, ... -
Bridge Adaptation and Management under Climate Change Uncertainties: A Review
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The management of civil infrastructure, including the allocation of scarce resources, is an engineering issue that now must also consider the highly politicized, highly debated hazard of climate change. Bridges, in particular, ... -
Methodology for Evaluating Community Resilience
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Community resilience is dependent on the functionality of building clusters and supporting infrastructure systems because these facilitate social and economic activities in a community. This paper seeks to help communities ... -
Assessment of Flood Damage on Humans, Infrastructure, and Agriculture in the Ghamsar Watershed Using HEC-FIA Software
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Floods, as one of the most catastrophic events among the wide variety of natural hazards, impose considerable damage to humans, infrastructure, and industrial and agricultural sites. To identify flooding-prone areas and ... -
PDEM-Based Perspective to Probabilistic Seismic Response Analysis and Design of Earthquake-Resistant Engineering Structures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)A perspective based on the probability density evolution method (PDEM) to the probabilistic seismic response analysis and design of earthquake-resistant engineering structures is provided in this paper. The development of ... -
Exercising Agency: How Men Experiencing Homelessness Employ Human, Social, and Cultural Capital to Mitigate Natural Hazards Risk
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)People experiencing homelessness are among the most vulnerable in society. They are exposed to a variety of natural and technological hazards and may have few resources available to protect themselves and their property. ... -
Impacts of Hurricane Storm Surge on Infrastructure Vulnerability for an Evolving Coastal Landscape
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Predicting coastal infrastructure reliability during hurricane events is important for risk-based design and disaster planning, including delineating viable emergency response routes. Previous research has focused on either ...