Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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Designing a Geospatial Information Infrastructure for Mitigation of Heat Wave Hazards in Urban Areas
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2004)Extreme heat is a natural hazard that could rapidly increase in magnitude in the 21st century. The combination of increasing urbanization, growing numbers of vulnerable people, and the evidence of global warming indicate ... -
Reducing Drought Risk: Bridging Theory and Practice
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2004)Drought events across the United States since 1995 illustrate the country’s continuing vulnerability to drought. Officials are beginning to recognize the need for enhanced mitigation actions to reduce the increasing economic, ... -
Designing Safe Systems: Using System Dynamics to Understand Complexity
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2004)All geographical regions are subject to devastation and disruption from natural disasters. Optimizing safety requires understanding the natural and social systems involved in disasters, communicating clearly with decision ... -
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Resistance of Buildings to Pyroclastic Flows: Analytical and Experimental Studies and Their Application to Vesuvius
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2004)Recent studies of the pyroclastic flows associated with major volcanic eruptions have indicated that, though destructive, they may be survivable by some people protected by sufficiently robust buildings. The aim of the ... -
Tulsa Turnaround: From Disaster to Sustainability
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2004)The city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has achieved international renown for its record of success in natural hazards mitigation and environmental policy innovation. One of the city’s most significant achievements is the mitigation ... -
Actively Searching for Hazards Information
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2004)Much of the hazards literature on information transfer focuses on how individuals passively acquire hazards information by monitoring what comes across their desks and computer screens. This paper highlights a complementary ... -
Evaluating Earthquake Safety in Mid-American Communities
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2004)This paper reports on research being conducted at the Mid-America Earthquake Center to explore the characteristics of seismic risk for communities in the vicinity of the New Madrid seismic zone. By risk, the product of ... -
Preparedness for Dam Failures in the San Francisco Bay Area
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2004)In California, past high-magnitude earthquakes have mostly occurred before the largest water storage dams were built or while reservoirs were at abnormally low storage levels. While regulations and procedures concerning ... -
Seismic Retrofit of California Hospitals: Implementing Regulatory Policy in a Complex and Dynamic Context
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2004)Implementing public policy rarely flows either automatically or smoothly following enactment. This paper is a midstream analysis of a study of the implementation of seismic safety legislation in California aimed at ... -
Implementation of Structural Earthquake-Disaster Mitigation Programs in Developing Countries
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2004)Some of the structural earthquake-disaster mitigation programs implemented in developing countries are evaluated, with an emphasis on Latin America. Recommendations for reducing the vulnerability of engineered construction ... -
Making Choices about Earthquake Performance
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2004)Performance-based earthquake engineering has gained prominence as an approach that allows facility owners or other relevant decision makers to select earthquake performance objectives for engineered structures. Refinement ... -
Reliable Design Loads for Natural Phenomena: Illustration with Wind Speeds
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2004)A primary purpose of structural codes is to provide designs that produce safe and economical structures for their entire intended lifetime. When considering forces due to natural phenomena, our historical records are often ... -
Climate Forecasts and Flood Planning under the Reign of ENSO
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2004)We examine the use of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) forecasts for flood planning in the Pacific Northwest. Our investigation relies on (1) case studies of three counties vulnerable to flooding that have had access ... -
Review of <i>American Hazardscapes: The Regionalization of Hazards and Disasters</i> edited by Susan L. Cutter
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Review of <i>Rational Decision-Making in the Preservation of Cultural Property</i> edited by N. S. Baer and R. Snickars
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The Impact of Volcanic Eruptions During the 1990s
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003)The 1990s were proclaimed International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction by the General Assembly of United Nations. We constructed a database in order to evaluate the global impact of volcanic eruptions during the ... -
Assessing Community Impacts of Natural Disasters
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003)Research on the community impacts of natural disasters has yielded a wide variety of findings, but no coherent model of the process by which hazard agent characteristics produce physical and social impacts. This article ... -
Evaluating Disaster Mitigations: Methodology for Urban Infrastructure Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003)This paper develops a methodology for evaluating the benefits and costs of disaster mitigation measures for urban infrastructure systems. The methodology is distinguished in three respects: first, it demonstrates how life ... -
Review of <i>Heavy Metals in the Environment: Using Wetlands for Their Removal</i> by Howard T. Odom et al.
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003)