Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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Engineering Perspectives on Reducing Hurricane Damage to Housing in CARICOM Caribbean Islands
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)The annual hurricane related losses to Caribbean residential buildings in the past two decades highlight the societal and socioeconomic vulnerability of these islands. Despite considerable hurricane disaster mitigation ... -
Building Community Disaster Preparedness with Volunteers: Community Emergency Response Teams in Illinois
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)The community emergency response team (CERT) program is an attempt to facilitate citizen response and preparedness across the United States. Predisaster planning and preparedness, as embodied in the CERT program, is becoming ... -
Obstacles and Disaster Risk Reduction: Survey of Memphis Organizations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)The disaster management literature is replete with surveys at the community and household levels. However, few exist at the organizational level. This study attempts to fill this void by examining the effect of organizational ... -
Interactions among Flood Predictions, Decisions, and Outcomes: Synthesis of Three Cases
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)To complement other flood mitigation measures, hydrometeorological predictions are often used in decisions leading up to and during floods. Understanding the role played by predictions in flood events can help forecasters ... -
Empirical Relationship between Large Dams and the Alteration in Extreme Precipitation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)This study looks at the empirical relationship between the presence of large dams and the potential alteration in extreme precipitation patterns in their vicinity. The global analysis indicates that extreme precipitation ... -
Energy Infrastructure Damage Analysis for Hurricane Rita
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)In 2005, Hurricane Rita caused significant damage to the energy infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico region. In the context of this investigation, the “energy infrastructure” refers to the offshore oil platforms, refineries, ... -
Field Damage Survey of New Orleans Homes in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flood caused by the failure of the levee system had a severe impact on low- and middle-income neighborhoods in the city of New Orleans. This paper presents the damage survey data collected ... -
Tsunami Preparedness on the Oregon and Washington Coast: Recommendations for Research
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)This study sought to identify the research that is needed to improve tsunami emergency preparedness in the Pacific Northwest. A search of the archival literature yielded very few journal articles and technical reports on ... -
Estimating the Social and Economic Consequences of Natural Hazards: Fiscal Impact Example
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)To make rational decisions about investments in mitigation or disaster preparedness, decision makers need to understand not just the physical impacts of natural disasters, but also their likely social and economic consequences. ... -
Social Vulnerability and Hurricane Impact Modeling
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)Numerical hurricane loss and impact prediction models have become widely used as tools to determine property damages. To yield loss estimates, models often combine building stock, economic data, and vulnerability functions ... -
Bioengineering Techniques Associated with Soil Nailing Applied to Slope Stabilization and Erosion Control
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)Slope failures in the tropics are directly related to the rainfall intensity. Refining techniques to prevent rain-induced slope failures play an important role, especially for the risky occupied areas close to big cities—the ... -
Land Subsidence Disaster Survey and Its Economic Loss Assessment in Tianjin, China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)Land subsidence is a kind of widespread geological disaster that occurs in China’s coastal cities. The Tianjin metropolis has suffered negative influence of land subsidence since the 1950s. Land subsidence disaster scenarios ... -
Normalized Earthquake Damage and Fatalities in the United States: 1900–2005
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)Damage estimates from 80 U.S. earthquakes since 1900 are “normalized” to 2005 dollars by adjusting for inflation, increases in wealth, and changes in population. Factors accounting for mitigation at 1 and 2% loss reduction ... -
Coastal Defense Strategies in the Wadden Sea Region: Coping with Climate Change
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)Recent floods such as the one in New Orleans (2005), the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report and extreme weather events all influence the way people perceive the problem of climate change and the necessity ... -
Origin, Distribution, and Timing of Texas Hurricanes: 1851–2006
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)This paper provides a place-based approach to the organization and analysis of historic hurricane information in the context of informing decision-making in urban planning, disaster management, and mitigation, and natural ... -
Tornado Losses in the United States
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)Insurance data for tornado damages during 1949–2006 revealed 793 tornado events that each caused >$1 million in losses. The average annual loss of these tornado catastrophes is $982 million, an amount that greatly exceeds ... -
Flood Modeling in the Coastal Plains and Mountains: Analysis of Terrain Resolution
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)The number of flood disasters has increased worldwide in recent decades. Identifying the optimal resolution or scale at which to represent digital terrain models (DTMs) is critical in order to improve our ability to ... -
Gender and Age Factors in Tsunami Casualties
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)A tsunami casualty model is developed with criteria based on whether a person can remain standing within tsunami flow. A simplified model of a human body is made using anthropometric data. By applying the model to tsunami ... -
Facets and Scope of Large-Scale Disasters
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