Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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Protective Actions in Wildfires: Evacuate or Shelter-in-Place?
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)The decision of whether to evacuate or shelter-in-place (SIP) in a wildfire poses a significant challenge for emergency managers and residents in fire-prone areas. Events such as the 2007 Witch Creek Fire and 2008 Tea Fire ... -
Explaining Subjective Risks of Hurricanes and the Role of Risks in Intended Moving and Location Choice Models
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)Using stated choice survey data we report on subjects’ perceptions of the risks of hurricanes and intended relocation decisions when faced with such risks. All of the subjects were displaced by either Hurricane Katrina or ... -
Risk Analysis of a Protected Hurricane-Prone Region. II: Computations and Illustrations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)This paper describes a case study implementing a methodology for assessing risks to protected hurricane-prone regions. A simple hurricane protection system is constructed to illustrate the required inputs for the system ... -
Toward a Comprehensive Areal Model of Earthquake-Induced Landslides
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)This paper provides a review of regional-scale modeling of earthquake-induced landslide hazard with respect to the needs for disaster risk reduction and sustainable development. Based on this review, it sets out important ... -
Fragility Analysis Methodology for Performance-Based Analysis of Wood-Frame Buildings for Flood
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)This paper resulted from a Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers Special Project entitled “The Next Step for ASCE 16: Performance-Based Design of Wood Structures.” In 2005 Hurricane ... -
Capabilities-Based Approach to Measuring the Societal Impacts of Natural and Man-Made Hazards in Risk Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)This paper presents a -
From Normal Operation to Evacuation: Single-Vehicle Safety under Adverse Weather, Topographic, and Operational Conditions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)The negative effects of weather (e.g., strong winds, snow, and icy rain) on the safety of vehicles have been recognized and reported upon for some time worldwide. As an important category of vehicle accidents, the ... -
Emergency Preparedness Training and Education in Lombardy Region, Italy: Survey of Supply and Demand
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)This paper reports on a survey of municipalities in the Italian Region of Lombardy. A questionnaire was employed to ascertain the nature, objectives, and user base of emergency preparedness training courses, and also the ... -
Assessing Vulnerability to Natural Hazards: Impact-Based Method and Application to Drought in Washington State
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)This article presents a technique for performing vulnerability assessments, using measures of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. Historically, vulnerability assessments have focused on analyzing the hazard itself, ... -
Risk Analysis of a Protected Hurricane-Prone Region. I: Model Development
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)A risk analysis methodology is presented in this paper for protected hurricane-prone regions. The methodology is intended to assist decision and policy makers, and has the characteristics of being analytic, transparent, ... -
Orographical Effects of Heavy Rainfall by Typhoon 0514 (NABI)
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)Numerical experiments using a mesoscale meteorological model (MM5) were performed to evaluate the mountainous orographical effects on heavy rainfalls brought by Typhoon 0514 (NABI), which caused a flooding disaster in the ... -
Destructive Testing under Simulated Hurricane Effects to Promote Hazard Mitigation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)The human and financial toll of hurricanes on U.S. east and gulf coast communities has been immense. The International Hurricane Research Center at Florida International University focuses on a first-of-its-kind full-scale ... -
Spatial Model of Forest Management Strategies and Outcomes in the Wildland–Urban Interface
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)In fire-prone areas of the western United States, mechanical thinning is often seen as a way to achieve two outcomes: Wildfire mitigation and restoration of historical forest structure. In this study, a spatial modeling ... -
World Earthquake Fatalities from the Past: Implications for the Present and Future
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)A method to estimate the likely fatalities in earthquakes in the twenty-first century is a statistical analysis of the data for fatalities in earthquakes from the last two millennia. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ... -
Effects of Urban Sprawl on the Vulnerability to a Significant Tornado Impact in Northeastern Illinois
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)A sprawling U.S. population continues to spread into the fringes of urban development placing both populations and property in areas that were once largely unoccupied. Population tallies, housing unit totals, and housing ... -
Status of the Lower Sacramento Valley Flood-Control System within the Context of Its Natural Geomorphic Setting
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)The Sacramento River’s flood-control system was conceived as a series of weirs and bypasses that routes floods out of the leveed main channel into natural floodways engineered to drain directly into the bay delta. The ... -
Livin’ Large with Levees: Lessons Learned and Lost
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)The use of levees for flood control has a long history in the United States in part because their relatively low construction costs and general effectiveness in protecting low-lying areas are politically expedient. ... -
Development of the Lower Sacramento Valley Flood-Control System: Historical Perspective
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)Natural physical conditions and the politics of flood management provide the historical context for structural flood control that underlies modern flood hazards in the Sacramento Valley. The valley is a broad, low plain ... -
Geomorphic Influence on Flood Hazards in a Lowland Fluvial-Tidal Transitional Area, Central Valley, California
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)Geomorphic processes influence flood hazards in the lowland fluvial-tidal transition area near the Cosumnes River-Dry Creek-Mokelumne River Confluence, Central Valley, California. Anthropogenic changes in the inherently ... -
Call for Papers
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)