Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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Review of <i>Historia y Desastres en América Latina</i> by Virginia Garcı´a Acosta
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Early Warning of Abrupt Displacement Change at the Yemaomian Landslide of the Three Gorge Region, China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Like most natural systems, landslides also have critical points at which a great change in displacement occurs. The displacement may recover increasingly slowly from small perturbations when landslides approach an abrupt ... -
Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis of the HAZUS-MH Flood Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Estimating flood losses for hazard mitigation planning is an increasingly important aspect of flood risk management. The loss estimation process typically includes sequential analysis of the flood hazard, building ... -
Comparative Study on the Key Issues of Postearthquake Recovery and Reconstruction Planning: Lessons from the United States, Japan, Iran, and China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Frequent catastrophic earthquakes have highlighted the significance of postearthquake recovery and reconstruction (PERR) planning, a dynamic and inclusive process which encourages the building of more resilient communities. ... -
Overview of Innovative Life-Risk Analysis Method for the 2012 California Central Valley Flood Protection Plan
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)The State of California’s 2012 Central Valley flood protection plan (CVFPP)—a large-scale reconnaissance-level assessment of flood management problems and potential solutions—formulated a set of broad management alternatives ... -
New Method for Estimating Landslide Losses from Major Winter Storms in California and Application to the ARkStorm Scenario
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)ARkStorm is a statewide emergency planning scenario hypothesizing severe atmospheric river storms that transport huge amounts of moisture from the tropical Pacific to California, where it falls as intense rain. The storm ... -
Feasibility of Remote Sensing for Multihazard Analysis of Landslides in Padang Pariaman during the 2009 Padang Earthquake
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Obtaining accurate spatial details of the parameters involved in landslides has been a major challenge in determining the risk of landslide following an extreme event of rainfall, earthquake, or a combination of both. In ... -
Impacts of Disrupted Road Networks in Siting Relief Facility Locations: Case Study for Leon County, Florida
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)After any catastrophic storm, the population of the affected area will need relief services. Government and private agencies commonly set up distribution stations where people can obtain basic goods after such crises. It ... -
Why Do People Take Fewer Damage Mitigation Actions Than Survival Actions? Other Factors Outweigh Cost
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)People who prepare for earthquakes complete more emergency survival actions (e.g., get water supplies) than damage mitigation actions (e.g., strengthen foundations). The usual explanation for this difference is that ... -
Reconciliation of Trends in Global and Regional Economic Losses from Weather Events: 1980–2008
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)In recent years, claims have been made in venues including the authoritative reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and in testimony before the U.S. Congress that economic losses from weather events ... -
Natural Hazards—The Multihazard Approach
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Quay Wall Stability Considering Earthquake and Tsunami Overtopping Forces Together in the Active Condition
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)In 2011, off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, Japan, an earthquake triggered a tsunami that struck the coast; the region was inundated with the tsunami and earthquake aftershocks continued for days. Coastal structures were ... -
Review of <i>Governing Disasters</i>: <i>The Challenges of Emergency Risk Regulation</i> edited by Alberto Alemanno
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An Approach to Coastal Railway Line Evacuation under a Tsunami Warning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)The analysis of transport network reliability under a natural disaster warning (e.g., impending tsunami) is a complex task, in part, due to the uncertainty of the time of the event occurrence at different locations. Different ... -
The Costing of Measures for Natural Hazard Mitigation in Europe
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)The literature on the costing of mitigation measures for reducing impacts of natural hazards is rather fragmented. This paper provides a concise overview of the current state of knowledge in Europe on the costing of ... -
What Are the Emerging Challenges for Community-Based Landslide Risk Reduction in Developing Countries?
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)Despite the acceptance of disaster risk reduction polices among governments and donor agencies, and their integration into development policies, disaster risk is accumulating -
Role of Explicit and Implicit Practices in the Production of Situated Preparedness for Disasters
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)A major earthquake in southern California could be catastrophic. There are many efforts to plan and prepare for a large earthquake enacted on government, organizational, and community levels. Preparedness practices, while ... -
Financial Seismic Risk Analysis of Building Portfolios
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)The role of financial seismic risk analysis and risk quantification has grown rapidly in dealing with important risk-management decisions for building portfolios. Recent developments in regional seismicity modeling, ...