A5015053453- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Risk Perception and Management
- Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Disaster Response and Management
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Risk and Safety Analysis
- Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Nuclear Issues and Defense
- Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Homelessness and Social Issues
University of South Carolina
2015-2024
Walter de Gruyter (Germany)
2021-2022
United States Department of Homeland Security
2022
University of New Hampshire
2022
University of New Hampshire at Manchester
2022
University of Central Florida
2019
University of North Georgia
2019
Pacific Disaster Center
2007
58.com (China)
2005
Salisbury University
2002
Objective. County‐level socioeconomic and demographic data were used to construct an index of social vulnerability environmental hazards, called the Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI) for United States based on 1990 data. Methods. Using a factor analytic approach, 42 variables reduced 11 independent factors that accounted about 76 percent variance. These placed in additive model compute summary score—the Index. Results. There are some distinct spatial patterns SoVI, with most vulnerable...
For over 50 years, hazards researchers have focused on a series of fundamental questions:• What is the human occupancy hazard zones? • How do people and societies respond to environmental whatfactors influence their choice adjustments? you mitigate risk impact hazards?
There is considerable federal interest in disaster resilience as a mechanism for mitigating the impacts to local communities, yet identification of metrics and standards measuring remain challenge. This paper provides methodology set indicators baseline characteristics communities that foster resilience. By establishing conditions, it becomes possible monitor changes over time particular places compare one place another. We apply our counties within Southeastern United States proof concept....
Losses from environmental hazards have escalated in the past decade, prompting a reorientation of emergency management systems away simple postevent response. There is noticeable change policy, with more emphasis on loss reduction through mitigation, preparedness, and recovery programs. Effective mitigation losses requires hazard identification, an assessment all likely to affect given place, risk-reduction measures that are compatible across multitude hazards. The degree which populations...
During the past four decades (1960-2000), United States experienced major transformations in population size, development patterns, economic conditions, and social characteristics. These social, economic, built-environment changes altered American hazardscape profound ways, with more people living high-hazard areas than ever before. To improve emergency management, it is important to recognize variability vulnerable populations exposed hazards develop place-based plans accordingly. The...
Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size Notes 1. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters Advance Change Adaptation (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2012). 2. H. Kunreuther E. Michel-Kerjan, At War with Weather (Cambridge, MA: MIT 2011). 3. L. Clarke, Worst Cases: Terror Catastrophe in Popular Imagination (Chicago, IL: Chicago 2005). 4. N. Taleb, The Black Swan: Impact Highly Improbable Random House, 2007). 5....
Abstract The events of September 11th shocked the nation and painfully illustrated our vulnerability to international terrorist attacks. Despite some most sophisticated models, monitoring systems, science in world, officials were unable anticipate predict these cascading events. collective scientific ability geographically represent environmental threats, map exposures, consequences is relatively straightforward when threats are recognized. But what happens we cannot recognize or their...
The state of knowledge regarding trends and an understanding their causes is presented for a specific subset extreme weather climate types. For severe convective storms (tornadoes, hailstorms, thunderstorms), differences in time space practices collecting reports events make using the reporting database to detect extremely difficult. Overall, changes frequency environments favorable thunderstorms have not been statistically significant. precipitation, there strong evidence nationally...
The growth of the environmental justice movement in US surprised even most seasoned policy-makers by its speed and magnitude impact on US national policy (Russell, 1989; Inhaber, 1990; Grossman, 1991; Goldman, 1992). Responding to intense public pressure from civil rights activists for close a decade, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established an Equity Workgroup 1990. workgroup had two primary tasks:1 evaluate evidence that racial minority low-income groups bore...
The social vulnerability of the American population is not evenly distributed among groups or between places. Some regions may be more susceptible to impacts hazards than other places based on characteristics people residing within them. As we saw with Hurricane Katrina, when coupled residencies in high-risk areas such as hurricane coasts, differential vulnerabilities can lead catastrophic results. geographic discrepancies also necessitate different mitigation, post-response, and recovery...
This article examines the vulnerability of US coastal counties to erosion by combining a socioeconomic index with Geological Survey's physically based index. The end product is county-based overall place vulnerability. results indicate that along coast highly differentiated and influenced range social, economic, physical indicators. Regionally, Gulf Coast more social characteristics rather than attributes. opposite true Pacific Atlantic counties, where are influential in determining...
Abstract This article examines the evacuation behavior of residents in two South Carolina communities, Hilton Head and Myrtle Beach, during 1996 hurricane season. Two hurricanes that approached but hit North allowed us to study impact repeated “false alarms”; (evacuations ordered based on expectations a landfall proved be wrong). Differences behavior, specific information concerns prompting evacuation, reliability sources between events are examined determine false alarms credibility warning...
The Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI), created by Cutter et al. (2003), examined the spatial patterns of social vulnerability to natural hazards at county level in United States order describe and understand burdens risk. purpose this article is examine sensitivity quantitative features underlying SoVI approach changes its construction, scale which it applied, set variables used, various geographic contexts. First, was calculated for multiple aggregation levels State South Carolina with a...
The discourse on disaster resilience and vulnerability entails diverse research policy communities each assigning different meanings to the concepts, which in turn influences their measurement implementation decision‐making contexts. This invited contribution introduces a themed section with five independently submitted papers broad topic of resilience. distinctive geographical focus historical development contemporary manifestations is illustrated by internationally focused case studies...
The concept of disaster resilience has gained attention in political spheres and news outlets over the past few years, yet relatively empirical measures exist. Furthermore, research into urban dwarfed our understanding rural places. This schism what is known about differences between places becomes topic this article. Employing a suite spatial statistical techniques using an established measure community resilience, Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities (BRIC), we focus on two key...
Although social vulnerability has recently gained attention in academic studies, Brazil lacks frameworks and indicators to assess it for the entire country. Social highlights differences human capacity prepare for, respond to, recover from disasters. It varies over space time, among between groups, largely due socioeconomic demographic characteristics. This article provides a index (SoVI®) replication study shows how SoVI® concepts were adapted follows place-based framework adopted...
Social vulnerability emphasizes the different burdens of disaster losses within and between places. Although China continuously experiences devastating natural disasters, there is a paucity research specifically addressing multidimensional nature social vulnerability. This article presents an initial study on Yangtze River Delta region in China. The goal to replicate test applicability place-based Vulnerability Index (SoVI®) developed for United States Chinese cultural context. Twenty-nine...