Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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Comprehensive Assessment of Hurricane Shelters: Lessons from Hurricane Georges
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003)Gulf of Mexico states concerned with the potential adverse impact of a hurricane, participated in a joint effort to systematically evaluate the structural integrity of shelters to be opened in the event of a hurricane. The ... -
Review of <i>The Silver Lining: The Benefits of Natural Disasters</i> by Seth R. Reice
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Hurricane Mitigation Status and Factors Influencing Mitigation Status among Florida’s Single-Family Homeowners
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003)This paper presents statewide estimates of shutter usage and envelope coverage for owner-occupied single-family detached housing in Florida. Intrastate regional variations are also presented and discussed. Multivariate ... -
What Are Our Expectations, Objectives, and Performance Requirements for Wood Structures in High Wind Regions?
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003)In response to tremendous losses in recent storms, there have been considerable efforts to place the design of wood-frame structures built in hurricane-prone regions on an engineering basis. It is assumed that the transition ... -
Beyond Semantics and the Immediate Postdisaster Period: Community Quality of Life as an Overarching Theme for Sustaining Collective Action
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003)The concept of “quality of life” has broad appeal to a variety of professions and disciplines, with increasing centrality to local sustainability. This paper highlights the negative impacts of disasters on quality of life ... -
Review of <i>Reducción de Desastres. Viviendo en Armonı´a con la Naturaleza</i> by Julio Kiroiwa (in Spanish)
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Review of <i>Ground Water Contamination. Transport and Remediation</i>, 2nd Edition, by Philip B. Bedient, Hanadi S. Rifai, and Charles J. Newell
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Disaster Management Plan for the State of Maharashtra, India: Evolutionary Process
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003)The involvement of bilateral and multilateral agencies in the recovery and reconstruction program following major natural disasters has helped developing countries undertake long-term disaster mitigation and preparedness. ... -
Analytic Hierarchy Process Analyzes Risk of Operating Cross-Country Petroleum Pipelines in India
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003)The existing method of pipeline health monitoring, which requires an entire pipeline to be inspected periodically, is both time-wasting and expensive. A risk-based model that reduces the amount of time spent on inspection ... -
Erosion Hazards Index for Lateritic Soils
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003)Lateritic soils found around Belo Horizonte City, Brazil, are highly weathered, acidic, developed in place, and prone to erosion and landslides. Engineers consider similar soils to cover 65% of the Brazilian superficial ... -
Hurricane Vulnerability in Latin America and The Caribbean: Normalized Damage and Loss Potentials
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003)In late October 1998, the remnants of Hurricane Mitch stalled over Honduras and Nicaragua, killing more than 10,000 people and causing as much as $8.5 billion in damage. While Central America and the Caribbean have a history ... -
Fuzzy Multicriteria Model for Postearthquake Land-Use Planning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003)A multicriteria model is developed for analyzing land-use strategies for reducing the future social and economic costs in areas with potential natural hazards. A multicriteria decision-making procedure consists of generating ... -
Physical and Zeta Potential Characteristics of Erodible Lateritic Soils
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003)Physical, mineralogical, and zeta potential studies were conducted on selected erodible lateritic soils from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. These soils are residual and highly weathered, and they have a very low amount of organic ... -
Urban Hazard Mitigation: Creating Resilient Cities
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003)Cities are complex and interdependent systems, extremely vulnerable to threats from both natural hazards and terrorism. This paper proposes a comprehensive strategy of urban hazard mitigation aimed at the creation of -
Assessment of Risk due to Debris Flow Events
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003)The traditional approach to hydraulic engineering problems, such as the designing of dams or embankments or, specifically in the case of consideration, the designing of a settling basin for debris flows, is deterministic ... -
Integrating Hazards Control into Sustainable Development Plans
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Integrated Flood Risk Management in England and Wales
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003)The flooding system includes the physical process of flooding, the inhabitants of floodplains, their infrastructures and ecosystems, and the people and organizations in the public and private sector that influence or are ... -
Geotechnical Aspects of Eroded Sediments Relevant to Tailings Disposal Design
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003)Since 1975, Samarco Mineração S.A. has been mining the iron ore deposits of the Germano Mine in the Quadrilátero Ferr -
Geometric Analysis of Geodetic Data for Investigation of 3D Landslide Deformations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003)The theoretical basis of geodetic data geometric analysis for the purpose of investigating the 3D deformations of landslides is presented. A major source of empirical information on the landslide dynamics is the set of ... -
Volume Change Behavior of Arid Calcareous Soils
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003)Arid climate, alkaline environment, and geology govern the formation and behavior of coastal calcareous sediments in the Arabian Gulf region. The presence of clay and nonclay minerals in these sediments causes geotechnical ...