Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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Performance Assessment of the Florida Electric-Power Network System against Hurricanes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)This study aims to describe the regional performance of electric-power distribution systems against hurricane hazards with theories based on the uncertainty. The uniqueness of this study is that damage-assessment models ... -
Building and Validating Geographically Refined Hurricane Wind Risk Models for Residential Structures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)Accurate estimation of risk to residential structures from hurricane winds is critical for emergency planning and post-event recovery. Models based on fragility curves are widely used for assessing wind damage risk at the ... -
Multiphase Risk-Management Method and Its Application in Tunnel Engineering
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)For a better understanding of risk management and the optimization of risk mitigation, a multiphase risk-management method is proposed in which the assessment of risks is divided into two phases: the initial risk phase and ... -
Seismic Hazard Assessment of the Tehran Region
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)The region around Tehran is considered a high seismicity area. It should arouse more concern to the seismic safety of this city given that the last damaging earthquake occurred nearly 200 years ago, and the geotechnical ... -
Cost-and-Benefit Evaluation of Windstorm Damage Mitigation Techniques in Florida
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)The hurricanes of recent years have caused many insurers to raise their premiums in response to increased losses. In the long-term, the most effective solution to reduce damage and insurance costs is to apply mitigation ... -
Application of Transit Signal Priority for No-Notice Urban Evacuation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)During an urban evacuation, is it advisable for regional planners to allow transit buses signal priority in cases where police-assisted traffic controls are not an option? With only a finite number of available units, buses ... -
Out of Sync: World Bank Funding for Housing Recovery, Postdisaster Planning, and Participation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)The World Bank is increasingly at the forefront of housing reconstruction in countries affected by disasters. Yet, the literature on the World Bank’s postdisaster housing projects is rather thin. This paper examines the ... -
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Local Mitigation Activities in Reducing Flood Losses
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)In an effort to counteract mounting flood losses, FEMA introduced the Community Rating System (CRS) in 1990 as a way to encourage local jurisdictions to exceed the National Flood Insurance Program’s minimum standard for ... -
Material Convergence: Important and Understudied Disaster Phenomenon
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)This paper reports the research conducted on material convergence, which is one of the most important and, ironically, one of the most understudied disaster phenomena. This spontaneous flow of supplies, equipment, and ... -
New Evidence and Perspective to the Poisson Process and Earthquake Temporal Distribution from 55,000 Events around Taiwan since 1900
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)Earthquake prediction is by all means controversial and challenging, given the fact that some recent catastrophic earthquakes went unpredicted. Not surprisingly, statistical approaches have been utilized to model earthquake ... -
Rapid Flood Exposure Assessment of Vermont Mobile Home Parks Following Tropical Storm Irene
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)Tropical Storm Irene and spring flooding in 2011 exposed the vulnerabilities of mobile home parks in Vermont when 154 mobile homes in parks were destroyed. The question of mobile home parks’ relationship to floodplains was ... -
Storm Surge to Demand Surge: Exploratory Study of Hurricanes, Labor Wages, and Material Prices
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Demand surge is understood to be a socioeconomic phenomenon associated with large-scale natural disasters. It is most commonly explained as higher repair costs resulting from higher labor wages and material prices after a ... -
Multilevel Governance of Flood Hazards: Municipal Flood Bylaws in British Columbia, Canada
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)Municipal governments are often reluctant to voluntarily adopt land-use plans and bylaws that can help reduce losses from natural hazards. After major floods inspired the federal government of Canada and provincial government ... -
Disaster-Function Management: Basic Principles
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)The introduction of the disaster life cycle in 1979 was a milestone in disaster management practice. Its four phases of a disaster, which were the basis for comprehensive emergency management (CEM), have been widely used ... -
U.S. Hurricanes and Economic Damage: Extreme Value Perspective
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)The historical record of U.S. hurricane damage is analyzed using a peaks-over-threshold approach in which the generalized Pareto distribution (GPD) is applied to model excesses above a specified threshold for a given damage ... -
Development of a Time-Dependent Disaggregate Hurricane Evacuation Destination Choice Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)A time-dependent disaggregate destination choice model for evacuees from a hurricane is developed and tested in this paper. Using data from a survey conducted among South Carolina residents following Hurricane Floyd in ... -
Development of Residential Building Stock and Population Databases and Modeling the Residential Occupancy Rate for Iran
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)Seismic risk mitigation planning relies on the assessment of possible losses because of destructive scenario earthquakes. In turn, realistic risk assessment procedures must be supported by an adequate element at risk data ... -
Communication’s Role and Technology Preferences during Hurricane Evacuations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Emergency evacuations are dynamic, time-critical events involving complex coordination decisions. To develop robust evacuation policies, it is important to understand how people respond to evacuation alerts, including ... -
Evaluation of Existing Models for Prediction of Hurricane Evacuation Response Curves
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Effective planning for a hurricane evacuation can significantly contribute to its success. One important planning component is the prediction of an evacuation timing response curve with different policies under consideration. ... -
Interdisciplinary Approach to Evacuation Modeling
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Evacuations have long been studied within disciplinary boundaries, most frequently in the social sciences and in transportation engineering. Despite the common object of study, previous works integrating these fields’ ...