Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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Measuring Community Resilience to Coastal Hazards along the Northern Gulf of Mexico
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The abundant research examining aspects of social-ecological resilience, vulnerability, and hazards and risk assessment has yielded insights into these concepts and suggested the importance of quantifying them. Quantifying ... -
Lulling Effect of Public Flood Protection: Case of Benhe Community in Kaohsiung during Typhoon Fanapi
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Many people believe that once structural public flood protection is completed, disasters are completely prevented. Benhe community was the only place in Taiwan where a flood detention pond had been built in 2005. After ... -
Scale and Resolution Considerations in the Application of HAZUS-MH 2.1 to Flood Risk Assessments
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)This study examines a tool developed by the U.S. FEMA for performing earthquake, hurricane, and flood hazard modeling and damage assessment. The focus of this research was to compare the native flood modeling and damage ... -
Fatality Prediction for the 2011 Tornado Season Based on Historical Extreme Weather Data
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)The 2011 tornado season resulted in 553 deaths, the most in a year in the United States since 1925. Natural events and human vulnerability combine to produce natural disasters, and so this work explores whether extreme ... -
Deciding What’s Safe: Making Choices about Earthquake Safety
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2004) -
Role of the Natural Hazards and Disaster Field in the Aftermath of September 11
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2002) -
Direct and Indirect Cost-and-Benefit Assessment of Climate Adaptation Strategies for Housing for Extreme Wind Events in Queensland
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)The intensity of tropical cyclones and severe storms is likely to increase due to climate change. Brisbane and the northeast coast of Queensland are regions where design wind specifications may be inadequate under either ... -
Guest Editorial
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000) -
Review of <i>Introduction to Emergency Management</i> by George D. Haddow and Jane Bullock
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2004) -
Do Hazard Mitigation and Preparedness Reduce Physical Damage to Businesses in Disasters? Critical Role of Business Disaster Planning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)This paper provides fresh evidence on the status of business disaster planning, mitigation, and preparedness, and the effectiveness of these activities on loss reduction. Data from a survey of businesses in Galveston County, ... -
State of the Art of Hurricane Vulnerability Estimation Methods: A Review
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)This paper presents a comprehensive review of methods to assess building vulnerability for hurricane catastrophe models. The review identified five main types of assessment approaches judging by the underlying methodology: ... -
Inferring Contagion Patterns in Social Contact Networks Using a Maximum Likelihood Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)The spread of infectious disease is an inherently stochastic process. As such, real-time control and prediction methods present a significant challenge. For diseases that spread through direct human interaction, the contagion ... -
Review of The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why by Amanda Ripley
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010) -
Site-Specific Seismic Ground Response Study for Nuclear Power Plants and Ports in Mumbai
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)The importance of characterizing site-specific free-field surface motion of facilities of national and worldwide economic influence [like ports and nuclear power plants (NPPs)] is well-realized, especially in Mumbai, the ... -
Special Issue on Hurricanes and Insurance
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011) -
Review of <i>Cartographies of Danger— Mapping Hazards in America</i> by Mark Monmonier
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003) -
Strong-Motion Instrument Spatial Distribution Model for Indonesia
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)The government of Indonesia has begun a strong-motion instrumentation program, and one of the questions raised during the implementation of this program is how to spatially distribute these instruments in a systematic way, ... -
Editor’s Note
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009) -
Review of Avoiding Disaster: How to Keep Your Business Going When Catastrophe Strikes, by John Laye
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005) -
After Sandy: Rethinking Flood Risk Management in Asian Coastal Megacities
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)