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Displaying 15 of about 123 resultsThis research focuses on using flood damage reports in conjunction with contour maps, geographical information systems, Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data, photographs, and spatial averaging to develop total (high) flood elevation data sets. It is important that a sustainable community better prepare for and design mitigation processes for major f…
Benthic foraminifera from the South China Sea were studied to assess mass mortality and to monitor the composition and recovery of the benthic communities following the 1991 Mt Pinatubo ashfall. Surface distribution data from monitoring stations in the eastern South China Sea that were occupied during four cruises between spring 1994 and summer 1998 dis…
The June 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines, was the second largest of the 20th century, emplacing 5--6 km 3 of pyroclastic-flow material and creating record high sediment yields on rivers draining the volcano. This thesis explores landscape response to and recovery from sediment loading in the 1991 eruption from the drainage basin scale to mo…
In September 2017, Puerto Rico was impacted by Hurricanes Irma and Maria within the span of two weeks. Irma passed Puerto Rico on September 6, 2017 as one of the largest hurricanes to ever form in the Atlantic. Maria followed and made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017 as a Category 4 Hurricane, the largest and most damaging storm to strike t…
Two years ago, Hurricane Maria became the third major hurricane to strike the U.S. in less than a month. This powerful storm brought further destruction to the U.S. Virgin Islands before making a crushing impact on Puerto Rico. Survivors saw homes, businesses and crops wiped out, and many were left without power or access to vital services—including saf…
This report maps both the national framework for disaster recovery and the framework applicable in one autonomous community: the Valencian Community. The report uses, as a case study, the 2019 'Cold Drop', which resulted in extensive flooding in the Vega Baja area of the Valencian Community. The recovery phase, or 'return to normality phase' as it is co…
This report involves systematic desk review and expert interviews for a better understanding of the patterns in disaster recovery research and practice in the period June 2015 to June 2022. In-depth reviews of scientific papers and gray literature were undertaken using the Scopus and PreventionWeb databases following the Preferred Reporting Items for Sy…
When Hurricane Maria made landfall on September 20, 2017, it caused widespread devastation across Puerto Rico, killing as many as 1,052 people, destroying hundreds of thousands of homes, causing an island-wide blackout, and blocking over half of the 3.4 million residents from access to potable water.
At the six month mark, the situation remains critica…
Puerto Rico has a wealth of cultural, historical, and artistic resources that are integral to its cultural identity and sense of place, to tourism, to the arts industry, and to the economy. In September 2017, many of those resources were devastated in Hurricanes Irma and Maria. In this report, the authors present an overview of Puerto Rico's cultural re…
The aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria highlighted vulnerabilities in Puerto Rico's water sector. Hurricane damage spanned Puerto Rico's water infrastructure, including drinking water, wastewater, stormwater and flood control, as well as its water resources. This damage was attributed to multiple causes: the preexisting vulnerability of the water se…
The Planning Guide provides the rehabilitation and recovery framework, the rehabilitation planning process and plan structure, institutional arrangements for plan coordination, implementation mechanisms, and proposed monitoring and evaluation arrangements. This will guide the National Government Agencies (NGAs) and Local Government Units (LGUs) in the c…
This paper proposes a scientific concept of digital twin-driven systematic construction of intelligent disaster prevention and mitigation for infrastructure (IDPMI), which intends to clarify the potential of digital twin (DT) in disaster management. Natural hazards, which have the potential to cause catastrophic damage and loss to infrastructure, h…
This study builds on natural hazards behavior, community development, participatory, and codesign research to understand current community engagement approaches in an Australian context. Key principles for engaging communities were operationalized from document analysis and interviews with 30 community engagement practitioners from 25 Australian emergen…
The primary objective of this tool is to guide Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and civil protection professionals to the practical information they need to ensure that their work is fully inclusive. It will be of use not only to hands-on practitioners, but also to policymakers, and it refers to information that is applicable at local, regional or internat…
The normative dimensions of flood harm in flood risk management (FRM) have become salient in a milieu of extreme flood events. In this article, two types of flood harm will be discussed. They are namely, risk harm and outcome harm. Whilst risk harm suggests that risk imposition by structural FRM measures is a type of harm that can increase vulnerability…