Hurricane Irma 2017

This study evaluates how sea level rise (SLR) and hurricane characteristics influenced Hurricane Ian (Cat-4, 2022) and Hurricane Irma (Cat-3, 2017), to inform future preparedness.

A community in Florida believes the 2017 Hurricane Irma shouldn’t have affected them. Instead, they suspect another culprit: the Chemours mining complex, which sprawls across three counties some 50 miles upstream.

This study delves into multilateral and systemic disruption of critical infrastructure (CI) networks to assess the systemic resilience of CI “network-of-networks”.

Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017 caused widespread damage to coral reefs in the State of Florida and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. These damages were measured in post-storm surveys of reefs and assessed in terms of their impact on reef condition and

The study focused on the damage Hurricane Irma caused to Florida’s mangrove forests. The research team found that the forests suffered unparalleled dieback.

This rapid assessment of Sint Maarten's (SXM) housing sector was undertaken after Hurricane Irma struck Sint Maarten in September 2017.

In this paper, it is presented a methodology to assess and map socioeconomic vulnerability at a neighbourhood scale using an index-based approach and principal component analysis (PCA).

Experts recommend that the Government of Sint Maarten should make warning messages more simple and multi-lingual to accommodate the island's diverse population.

The capacities and vulnerabilities of people with extreme obesity have yet to be explored in disaster risk reduction literature. Whilst people have been impacted in disasters in relation to their size, shape and weight, the literature is ‘conspicuously

A new UNISDR study of the private sectors in Dominica and the British Virgin Islands finds that even though most businesses had disaster continuity plans, Maria and Irma revealed that they were unprepared for a level 5 hurricane. Businesses must recognize