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View article: Planning for Disaster Recovery: Planner Perspectives and Experiences
Planning for Disaster Recovery: Planner Perspectives and Experiences Open
Scholars and practitioners have long called for more planning leadership in community disaster recovery. Yet, how planners perceive themselves in disaster recovery, understand recovery processes, and participate in recovery activities rema…
View article: Volunteer motivations in civilian volunteer search and rescue organizations
Volunteer motivations in civilian volunteer search and rescue organizations Open
Most scholarship on volunteer motivation examines everyday scenarios rather than disaster or emergency contexts. Environmental hazards and their devastating social impacts continue to grow in severity and frequency, creating an increased o…
View article: Placemaking mediating dilemmas by addressing the gaps in post-disaster recovery process: Long-term citizen-driven place-nurturing in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina
Placemaking mediating dilemmas by addressing the gaps in post-disaster recovery process: Long-term citizen-driven place-nurturing in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina Open
Disasters create spatial, temporal and social gaps as people are displaced into temporary or interim situations. During this time affected people often experience the dilemma of prolonged uncertainty about the future, as well as the loss o…
View article: Social Capital Theory and Quantitative Approaches in Measurements: Disaster Literature Focus
Social Capital Theory and Quantitative Approaches in Measurements: Disaster Literature Focus Open
Disaster recovery depends heavily on the support of social networks and the resources they can generate. Yet such support is difficult to measure and assess. This paper reviews existing quantitative approaches to measure social capital wit…
View article: A reinforcement learning-based routing algorithm for large street networks
A reinforcement learning-based routing algorithm for large street networks Open
Evacuation planning and emergency routing systems are crucial in saving lives during disasters. Traditional emergency routing systems, despite their best efforts, often struggle to accurately capture the dynamic nature of flood conditions,…
View article: Improving social media use for disaster resilience: challenges and strategies
Improving social media use for disaster resilience: challenges and strategies Open
This paper develops a social media-disaster resilience analysis framework by categorizing types of social media use and their challenges to better understand and assess its role in disaster resilience research and management. The framework…
View article: Estimating long-term K-12 student homelessness after a catastrophic flood disaster
Estimating long-term K-12 student homelessness after a catastrophic flood disaster Open
Despite efforts to end homelessness in the United States, student homelessness is gradually growing over the past decade. Homelessness creates physical and psychological disadvantages for students and often disrupts school access. Research…
View article: The Role and Process of Placemaking in Disaster Recovery
The Role and Process of Placemaking in Disaster Recovery Open
2005年のハリケーン・カトリーナの後にニューオリンズ市で行われた市民主導のプレイスメイキングの2つの事例―ラフィット緑道とサンコファ湿地公園について、その過程と復興期における役割について論じる。プレイスメイキングを通じて荒廃した土地が再生され、その過程で減災、能動的交通、環境保全、公平性、地域活性化、経済効果など多様な価値を生み出した。場を「作る」創成期から「維持する」継続期への移行を捉え、場を維持するための仕組みの重要性を指摘した。プレイスメイキングによって失われた場の…
View article: Rationale and processes of residential buyout programs: A review on buyout regulations and consequences in Japan and the U.S.
Rationale and processes of residential buyout programs: A review on buyout regulations and consequences in Japan and the U.S. Open
Government acquisition of residential land has played a growing role in the reconstruction of housing in safer places and reduction of water‐related risks. This paper explores how the rationales and processes of residential buyouts may res…
View article: Human-centered flood mapping and intelligent routing through augmenting flood gauge data with crowdsourced street photos
Human-centered flood mapping and intelligent routing through augmenting flood gauge data with crowdsourced street photos Open
The number and intensity of flood events have been on the rise in many regions of the world. In some parts of the U.S., for example, almost all residential properties, transportation networks, and major infrastructure (e.g., hospitals, air…
View article: Content analysis of state hazard mitigation plans and their ability to address pandemics
Content analysis of state hazard mitigation plans and their ability to address pandemics Open
Hazard mitigation plans address hazards such as earthquakes, hurricanes, landslides, tornados, flooding more explicitly than pandemics or other public health crises. This paper analyzes and identifies pandemic-related mitigation strategies…
View article: Moving Up the Ladder in Rising Waters: Community Science in Infrastructure and Hazard Mitigation Planning as a Pathway to Community Control and Flood Disaster Resilience
Moving Up the Ladder in Rising Waters: Community Science in Infrastructure and Hazard Mitigation Planning as a Pathway to Community Control and Flood Disaster Resilience Open
Public participation is the democratic gateway to more just, inclusive, and resilient communities. However, infrastructure and hazard mitigation planning tends toward top-down, expert-driven processes that fail to meaningfully include comm…
View article: Social Media for Emergency Rescue: An Analysis of Rescue Requests on Twitter during Hurricane Harvey
Social Media for Emergency Rescue: An Analysis of Rescue Requests on Twitter during Hurricane Harvey Open
Social media plays increasingly significant roles in disaster response, but effectively leveraging social media for rescue is challenging. This study analyzed rescue requests on Twitter during the 2017 Hurricane Harvey, in which many resid…
View article: GROWTH AND SHRINKAGE PRE AND POST TSUNAMI IN FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE, JAPAN.
GROWTH AND SHRINKAGE PRE AND POST TSUNAMI IN FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE, JAPAN. Open
Depopulation is a severe problem in many urban areas globally. Massive population migrations can occur due to relocation after natural disasters and significantly change the demographic composition of regions and cities. The 2011 Great Tsu…
View article: The 2016 Unexpected Mid-State Louisiana Flood: With Special Focus on the Different Rescue and Recovery Responses It Engendered
The 2016 Unexpected Mid-State Louisiana Flood: With Special Focus on the Different Rescue and Recovery Responses It Engendered Open
The unexpected flooding that covered southern Louisiana in August 2016 was the worst disaster in the USA since Hurricane Sandy of 2012 and the worst in Louisiana since Hurricane Katrina. The unprecedented amount of rain in just 4 days dama…
View article: Interdisciplinary Citizen Science and Design Projects for Hazard and Disaster Education
Interdisciplinary Citizen Science and Design Projects for Hazard and Disaster Education Open
Disaster science is increasingly incorporating interdisciplinary methods and participatory research techniques. Yet, traditional higher education programs remain focused on lecture. More examples of educational efforts that meet the needs …
View article: Potential of Citizen Science for Enhancing Infrastructure Monitoring Data and Decision‐Support Models for Local Communities
Potential of Citizen Science for Enhancing Infrastructure Monitoring Data and Decision‐Support Models for Local Communities Open
Citizen science is a process by which volunteer members of the public, who commonly lack advanced training in science, engage in scientific activities (e.g., data collection) that might otherwise be beyond the reach of professional researc…
View article: Participatory action research: tools for disaster resilience education
Participatory action research: tools for disaster resilience education Open
Purpose Participatory action research can improve scientific knowledge and community capacity to address disaster resilience and environmental justice. Evidence from the literature suggests that resident participation enhances assessment o…
View article: Gauging the Relationship between Contextual Growth and Structural Neglect
Gauging the Relationship between Contextual Growth and Structural Neglect Open
Population and land use out-migrations from urban to peripheral areas can result in non-functional, unmaintained historic structures which deteriorate to the point where removal is cheaper than removal – or demolition by neglect. The incre…
View article: Elderly Perceptions of Social Capital and Age-Related Disaster Vulnerability
Elderly Perceptions of Social Capital and Age-Related Disaster Vulnerability Open
Objective Elderly individuals are considered at elevated risk of disaster impacts owing to increased health concerns, reduced mobility, and fixed economic resources. Social capital can counteract these vulnerabilities by increasing the lik…