Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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Smallholder Response to Hurricane Dean: Creating New Human Ecologies through Charcoal Production
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Natural hazards challenge rural communities’ livelihoods, but they may also serve as windows of opportunity for the rural poor in the form of new livelihood strategies. In 2007, Hurricane Dean devastated subsistence and ... -
Effect of Wind Directionality on the Vulnerability of Rural Houses due to Cyclonic Wind
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)A methodology is presented to assess the effect of wind directionality on the vulnerability of rural houses to cyclonic wind speed, and also to provide cyclonic risk assessment of coastal regions. The effect of wind ... -
Role of Transit in Carless Evacuation Planning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)During evacuations, the needs of transit-depended and carless populations require special attention and add to the complexity of evacuation logistics. The objective of this paper is to examine the role of transit in the ... -
Assessing the Effectiveness of Flexible Response in Evacuations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)The past 20 years have seen significant improvements in the way regional mass evacuations are carried out in the United States. Today’s use of phased evacuation orders, contraflow, and citizen-assisted transit evacuations ... -
Seismic Risk and Society Development Indicators: Examination of Three Countries
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)This paper investigates the underlying relationship between the implicit level of risk accepted for natural hazards, and the level of economic, social, and political development of the country. Vulnerability information ... -
Augmenting Strength of Collapsed Unreinforced Masonry Junctions: Principal Damage Feature of Walls Damaged by Moderate Indian Earthquakes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Frequently occurring moderate earthquakes in the Indian subcontinent have extensive impact on the nonengineered shelters of the local people inhabiting them because these shelters generally consist of unreinforced masonry ... -
Indicators of Community Recovery: Content Analysis and Delphi Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Disaster recovery has been studied from a variety of perspectives including the fields of sociology, engineering, policy implementation, political-ecology, systems theory, geography, and urban planning, leading to a wide ... -
Impact of Anthropogenic Changes on Liquefaction along the Tone River during the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)The March 11, 2011, -
State Drought Programs and Plans: Survey of the Western United States
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)Drought preparedness programs are considered a primary defense against drought hazards. This article investigates state drought programs in the western United States, including a review of drought plans and interviews with ... -
Land Subsidence in Arid Terrain: Methodology toward Risk Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Addressing land subsidence requires the identification of root causes, modeling its initiation failure modes, and managing this risk in a cost-effective manner. This paper presents a methodology for quantifying and managing ... -
Delineating the Reality of Flood Risk and Loss in Southeast Texas
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Although the 100-year floodplain is the traditional indicator of risk from flooding and a catalyst for mitigation decisions in the United States, increasing evidence indicates that this boundary is not sufficient in ... -
Error Quantification for Hurricane Storm Surge Simulations along the Coasts of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)This paper describes the development of a procedure to quantify errors in hurricane storm surge simulations using a decoupled wind-surge model. The state-of-the-art storm surge simulation program, advanced circulation ... -
Influence of Rock Depth on Seismic Site Classification for Shallow Bedrock Regions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Seismic site classifications are used to represent site effects for estimating hazard parameters (response spectral ordinates) at the soil surface. Seismic site classifications have generally been carried out using average ... -
Sensitivity Analysis of FEMA <i>HAZUS</i> Earthquake Model: Case Study from King County, Washington
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Concept of Community Fragilities for Tsunami Coastal Inundation Studies
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Tsunamis have devastated coastal regions worldwide, with the most recent being the result of the Great Tohoku Japan earthquake and tsunami, which was a M9.0 undersea megathrust earthquake that occurred off the east coast ... -
Image Analysis of Measuring Building Configuration for Seismic Damage Estimation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)A novel methodology of image analysis was designed to assess more quantitative seismic damage estimation at the building level for a city area in which 10–30% of the entire building stock was damaged. The methodology is ... -
Design of Synthetic Impact Response Functions for Flood Vulnerability Assessment under Climate Change Conditions: Case Studies in Two Selected Coastal Zones in Australia and Japan
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Sustainable coastal zone management strategies are imperative to avoid extreme social upheaval in both developing and developed countries. There is an increasing concern that the current management practices for many coastal ... -
GIS-Based Seismic Damage Estimation: Case Study for the City of Kelowna, BC
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)This study integrates risk assessment tools for diagnosis of urban areas against seismic disasters ( -
Integrated Risk Assessment for the Natomas Basin (California) Analysis of Loss of Life and Emergency Management for Floods
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)This article assesses the risk to life for the Natomas Basin, a low-lying, rapidly urbanizing region in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in California. Using an empirical method, the loss of life is determined for a flood ... -
Building Bayesian Networks for Problems of Risk Attributable to Natural Hazards
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Building Bayesian networks (BNs) for problems of risk attributable to natural hazards is a complex problem. Risk analysis makes use of domain experts’ knowledge, which is an essential element of input for the analysis. ...