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View article: The Influence of Scale in Modeling Social Vulnerability and Disaster Assistance
The Influence of Scale in Modeling Social Vulnerability and Disaster Assistance Open
Understanding how social vulnerability relates to disaster impacts is critical for addressing social equity, yet the role of spatial scale in this relationship is often overlooked. Most studies use aggregated data, risking ecological falla…
View article: Spatial heterogeneity in social vulnerability to flood exposure
Spatial heterogeneity in social vulnerability to flood exposure Open
Indicators of social vulnerability are frequently analyzed using methods that assume spatial stationarity, meaning that the relationships between these indicators and the outcome of interest are presumed to remain consistent across space. …
View article: Economic benefits of a rural distributed flood storage system
Economic benefits of a rural distributed flood storage system Open
Rural distributed storage systems are green infrastructure that decentrally store flood water across the landscape to reduce downstream flood peaks. Despite growing understanding of their flow reduction potential, the evidence base for the…
View article: Exploring the limits and gaps of flood adaptation
Exploring the limits and gaps of flood adaptation Open
Flood adaptation measures, such as levees, flood-proofing structures, nature-based solutions, and flood insurance, are essential to cope with the growing flood risk caused by climate change and urban development in flood-prone areas. Howev…
View article: Social vulnerability correlates of flood risk to crops and buildings
Social vulnerability correlates of flood risk to crops and buildings Open
The severity of flood impacts is influenced by social vulnerability, which stems from marginalization processes that depress a community’s ability to mitigate and recover from flood events. Understanding how social vulnerability operates i…
View article: Social vulnerability in a multi-hazard context: a systematic review
Social vulnerability in a multi-hazard context: a systematic review Open
The interacting effects of multiple hazards pose a substantial challenge to poverty reduction and national development. Yet, social vulnerability to multiple hazards is a relatively understudied, though growing concern. The impacts of clim…
View article: Health Care Utilization Among Texas Veterans Health Administration Enrollees Before and After Hurricane Harvey, 2016-2018
Health Care Utilization Among Texas Veterans Health Administration Enrollees Before and After Hurricane Harvey, 2016-2018 Open
IMPORTANCE: Hurricanes and flooding can interrupt health care utilization. Understanding the magnitude and duration of interruptions, as well as how they vary according to hazard exposure, race, and income, are important for identifying po…
View article: Flood Recovery Outcomes and Disaster Assistance Barriers for Vulnerable Populations
Flood Recovery Outcomes and Disaster Assistance Barriers for Vulnerable Populations Open
Disaster recovery spending for major flood events in the United States is at an all-time high. Yet research examining equity in disaster assistance increasingly shows that recovery funding underserves vulnerable populations. Based on a rev…
View article: Comparison of Neighborhood-Scale, Residential Property Flood-Loss Assessment Methodologies
Comparison of Neighborhood-Scale, Residential Property Flood-Loss Assessment Methodologies Open
Leading flood loss estimation models include Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) Hazus, FEMA’s Flood Assessment Structure Tool (FAST), and (U.S.) Hydrologic Engineering Center’s Flood Impact Analysis (HEC-FIA), with each requiri…
Location Matters: A Framework to Investigate the Spatial Characteristics of Distributed Flood Attenuation Open
Distributed attenuation in flood management relies on small and low-impact runoff attenuating features variously distributed within a catchment. Distributed systems of reservoirs, natural flood management, and green infrastructure are prac…
View article: Assessing Social Equity in Disasters
Assessing Social Equity in Disasters Open
Natural hazard impacts and resources allocated for risk reduction and disaster recovery are often inequitably distributed. New research is developing and applying methods to measure these inequities.
View article: Answer to the CDC: Validation Must Precede Promotion
Answer to the CDC: Validation Must Precede Promotion Open
We would like to thank the CDC colleagues for their Commentary in what constitutes the first comment on a paper published in the Annals in decades. We view critique as a strength of scientific exploration. The Commentary concludes with as …
View article: Flood exposure and social vulnerability in the United States
Flood exposure and social vulnerability in the United States Open
Human exposure to floods continues to increase, driven by changes in hydrology and land use. Adverse impacts amplify for socially vulnerable populations, who disproportionately inhabit flood-prone areas. This study explores the geography o…
View article: Social vulnerability and short-term disaster assistance in the United States
Social vulnerability and short-term disaster assistance in the United States Open
Short-term disaster assistance is an important component of federal disaster response in the United States, providing over $63 billion from 2007 to 2016. Though assistance programs are designed to facilitate the return to basic living cond…
View article: Flood Risk Reduction from Agricultural Best Management Practices
Flood Risk Reduction from Agricultural Best Management Practices Open
Best management practices (BMPs) play an important role in improving impaired water quality from conventional row crop agriculture. In addition to reducing nutrient and sediment loads, BMPs such as fertilizer management, reduced tillage, a…
View article: Measuring social equity in flood recovery funding
Measuring social equity in flood recovery funding Open
Deconstructing causal linkages between place attributes and disaster outcomes at coarse scales like zip codes and counties is difficult because heterogeneous socio-economic characteristics operating at finer scales are masked. However, cap…
View article: How Valid Are Social Vulnerability Models?
How Valid Are Social Vulnerability Models? Open
Social vulnerability models are becoming increasingly important for hazard mitigation and recovery planning, but it remains unclear how well they explain disaster outcomes. Most studies using indicators and indexes employ them to either de…
View article: Evaluating Collaborative Readiness for Interdisciplinary Flood Research
Evaluating Collaborative Readiness for Interdisciplinary Flood Research Open
Increasing trends in global flood risk are driven by a complex web of interactions among natural, built environment, and social systems. As a result, flood resilience research is an ideal topic for an interdisciplinary approach. Core chara…
View article: Vulnerability and Resilience to Natural Hazards
Vulnerability and Resilience to Natural Hazards Open
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View article: Water security and rainwater harvesting: A conceptual framework and candidate indicators
Water security and rainwater harvesting: A conceptual framework and candidate indicators Open
Rainwater-harvesting tanks (reservoirs) in Tamil Nadu, India support agricultural livelihoods, mitigate water insecurity, and enable ecosystem services. However, many tanks have fallen into disrepair, as private wells have supplanted colle…
Pigs in Space: Determining the Environmental Justice Landscape of Swine Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) in Iowa Open
Given the primacy of Iowa in pork production for the U.S. and global markets, we sought to understand if the same relationship with traditional environmental justice (EJ) variables such as low income and minority populations observed in ot…
View article: Unequal Recovery? Federal Resource Distribution after a Midwest Flood Disaster
Unequal Recovery? Federal Resource Distribution after a Midwest Flood Disaster Open
Following severe flooding in 2008, three Iowa communities acquired over 1000 damaged properties to support disaster recovery and mitigation. This research applies a distributive justice framework to analyze the distribution of disaster rec…