Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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Impact of the Three Gorges Dam Overruled by an Extreme Climate Hazard
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)While it is generally difficult to separate the impact of extreme climate events on river catchment conditions from that of human activities, there are unique data available to document this for the catchment area of the ... -
Criticality Assessment of Lifeline Infrastructure for Enhancing Disaster Response
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)In normal and hazardous situations, critical infrastructure systems such as roads, bridges, electricity, gas, and waste treatment facilities play a very crucial role in sustaining communities and industries. It is thus ... -
Epistemic Uncertainty, Rival Models, and Closure
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)In catastrophe risk and probabilistic hazard evaluations, one overarching issue is how to account for uncertainties. One influential school of thought employs a sharp distinction between aleatory (pertaining to randomness) ... -
Review of Geohazard Warning Systems toward Development of a Popular Usage Geohazard Warning Communication System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)The advent and evolution of geohazard warning systems is a very interesting study. The two broad fields that are immediately visible are that of geohazard evaluation and subsequent warning dissemination. Evidently, the ... -
Household-Level Model for Hurricane Evacuation Destination Type Choice Using Hurricane Ivan Data
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Hurricanes are costly natural disasters periodically faced by households in coastal and, to some extent, inland areas. Public agencies must understand household behavior to develop evacuation plans that align with evacuee ... -
Disaster and Recovery: Processes Compressed in Time
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Effect of Authoritative Information and Message Characteristics on Evacuation and Shadow Evacuation in a Simulated Flood Event
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)This study examines the factors influencing shadow evacuation. A mock television evacuation order was used to experimentally manipulate the presenter level of authority and message script. The dependent measures were the ... -
Household Evacuation Decision Making in Response to Hurricane Ike
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)This study focused on household evacuation decisions and departure timing for Hurricane Ike. The data were consistent with an abbreviated form of the Protective-Action Decision Model in which female gender, official warning ... -
Building Technologies for the Mitigation of Volcanic Risk: Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)This paper intends to show basic strategies and technical solutions that may reduce volcanic risk on buildings and infrastructures. It points out that reduction—mitigation—of vulnerability and expected damage to existing ... -
Immediate Resource Requirements after Hurricane Katrina
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)The paper focuses on the quantitative study of immediate resource requirements, i.e., the needs that arise in the aftermath of a disaster, which is one of the most severely understudied aspects of humanitarian logistics. ... -
Participation in the Community Rating System of NFIP: Empirical Analysis of North Carolina Counties
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)To motivate flood insurance purchase and promote flood hazard awareness and mitigation, the Community Rating System (CRS) of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) credits floodplain management activities and awards ... -
Risk-Based Strategies for Upgrading Existing Nonconforming Wooden Houses and Risk Information for Promoting Upgrading
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)There is widespread awareness in seismic-prone countries about the necessity to upgrade the seismic performance of old buildings and wooden houses for disaster mitigation; however, upgrading occurs at a very slow pace. At ... -
Developing a Tool to Measure and Compare Organizations’ Resilience
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Organizational and community resilience are interrelated and interdependent. As a result, organizational resilience is a critical component of communities’ ability to plan for, respond to, and recover from emergencies and ... -
Need and Citizenship after Disaster
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)This paper analyzes the delivery of assistance for displaced people after Hurricane Katrina. Assistance can be understood as part of social welfare assistance in the United States. It is part of the social welfare apparatus ... -
Risk-Based Seismic Retrofit Prioritization of Reinforced Concrete Civic Infrastructure: Case Study for State of Oregon Schools and Emergency Facilities
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)The state of Oregon is in a high seismic hazard zone, which raises serious concerns for potential damage, even collapse, of older concrete schools buildings and emergency facilities. In order to allocate retrofit prioritization ... -
Housing Design and Long-Term Recovery Processes in the Aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)While much has been written about postdisaster housing reconstruction, few have explored the effects of certain types of building designs or materials in improving the quality of the housing stock, basic utilities, and ... -
Strongest Cyclone of the New Millennium in the Bay of Bengal: Strategy of RVS for Nonengineered Structures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Coastal areas of the Indian subcontinent are familiar with aftermaths of severe tropical cyclones. Nonengineered structures of the common people are major casualties of these natural disasters. The present paper documents ... -
Hurricane Events, Population Displacement, and Sheltering Provision in the United States
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Displacement has traditionally been conceptualized as a phenomenon that results from conflict or other disruptions in developing or unstable countries. Hurricane Katrina shattered this notion and highlighted the various ... -
Reverse 911 as a Complementary Evacuation Warning System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)This study investigates the effectiveness of Reverse 911 warning systems compared with other evacuation warning sources. This study also investigates the impact of individual differences on evacuation behavior, and presents ... -
Loss Analysis for Combined Wind and Surge in Hurricanes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Residential buildings in coastal areas are often at risk to hurricanes, which can result in both wind and surge damage. In the United States, economic losses average approximately $US5.4 billion annually from hurricanes, ...