Natural Hazards Center Collection
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Report, Pothole Lake Fire: An Analysis of Emotion in a Successful Emergency Response, 1993
Kathleen M. Carley
"This study explores the emotional content of an effective disaster response situation and its coordination by the Incident Command System. Twenty-seven firefighters and local residents were interviewed during a major wildlife in 1991."
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Report, Reconnaissance of South Florida to Assess Damages, Planned Responses, and Future Needs in the Commercial Fisheries Stemming from Hurricane Andrew, 1993
James R. McGoodwin and Christopher L. Dyer
A report examining the damage, planned responses, and future needs for fisheries and commercial fishers after Hurricane Andrew in southern Florida.
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Report, Role of the Aged in Community Recovery Following Hurricane Andrew, 1993
Elizabeth A. Guillette
"The evaluation of community response to disaster recovery tends to focus on the group as a whole. Social, political and economic factors are delineated as the resource variables in recovery. This research varies, in that life cycle placement becomes the unit of analysis. The individuals under study are a small group of community residents that refused to relocate following devastation of their community by Hurricane Andrew on August 24, 1992."
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Report, Study of the Psychological Effects of Hurricane Andrew on an Elementary School Population, 1993
Jon A. Shaw, Brooks Applegate, Susan Tanner, Dorcus Perez, and Eugene Rothe
"In an effort to study further the evolution of the psychological effects of disaster we have undertaken a study of elementary school age children who were directly in the pathway of Hurricane Andrew and a comparable elementary school population north of Miami."
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Report, Preliminary Assessment of Damage to Engineered Structures Caused by Hurricane Andrew in Florida, December 22, 1992
Christopher Rojahn, Maurice R. Harlan, Keith D. Galloway, and Eric W. Tobias
A report on the post-disaster investigation of structures after Hurricane Andrew. "The investigation emphasized and surveyed damage of primary interest to the practicing structural engineer. "
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Report, Social Response to the First A Alert of the Parkfield Earthquake Prediction Experiment, December 1992
Colleen Fitzpatrick and Paul W. O'Brien
The report "depicts what alerts are in the context of the Parkfield Earthquake Prediction Experiment and the unfolding of events surrounding the first Parkfield A-level alert. The purpose of researching the alert and the methods used to investigate this phenomenon are then presented. Results from interviews and observations acquired from social research on the alert and the derived findings complete this report."
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Report, Immediate Response to Disaster: The East Bay Hills Fire, October 1992
Norma S. Gordon and Carl A. Maida
"This study examines the immediate community response to the East Bay Hills Fires. It investigates how mental health and other human services were mobilized and delivered in the disaster-affected communities in Alameda County during the initial post-impact period within one month of the firestorm."
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Report, What We can Learn from the February 1992 Floods in Ventura County, California, May 29, 1992
Eve Gruntfest and Vanessa Taft
"The paper has two parts. First, we provide a discussion of the geographical context, the flood detection/warning system in Ventura County, the peripheral uses of the ALERT system, and the county flood history. The other section consists of a summary of our findings based on the February, 1992 floods, comments and controversial topics, and recommendations."
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Report, Action Agenda for Managing the Nation's Floodplains, March 1992
Gilbert F. White
"In this paper we call attention to implications of the report for future public and private policy affecting the use of floodplains. We sum up the present situation, observe how the national aims of floodplain management have evolved and how federal activities have moved toward them, and recommend further action required in light of current conditions and trends."
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Report, Impact of Media Blame Assignation on the EOC Response to Disaster: A Case Study of the Response to the April 26, 1991 Andover (Kansas) Tornado, March 1992
Henry W. Fischer III, Susan Schaeffer, and Marna L. Trowbridge
"A three-person field team devoted four days to gathering data in Andover, Kansas, after a tornado devastated the Golden Spur Mobil Home Park on April 26, 1991. The research focus was to assess the extent to which the media's reporting of the local emergency management team's response to the disaster influenced the team's subsequent decisions."
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Report, Hazardous Materials as Secondary Results of Flooding: A Case Study of Planning and Response, 1992
Elaine J. Denning
"The objective of this study is to examine the organizational response to hazardous materials incidents after flooding with regard to the regulations, procedures, and planning that governed affected localities."
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Report, Market Gatekeepers: Their Impact on Property Values Following Flooding in Liberty County, Texas, 1992
Burrell Elizabeth Montz and Graham A. Tobin
Given the frequency, magnitude, and duration of flooding, Liberty County provides a useful case study for analyzing the extent to which market gatekeepers (e.g., realtors, insurance agents, and mortgage lenders) influence property values and sales. ... This report presents our findings in two sections, the first dealing with the results of our visit and the second focusing on questionnaire results.
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Report, Natural Hazards and the Elderly, 1992
Graham A. Tobin and Jane C. Ollenburger
"The goal of the research is to produce an explanatory model of how older adults cope with hazardous events through an analysis of behavior patterns and attitudes. Of particular concern are changes in the mental and physical health of older adults, responses and attitudes towards hazard warning systems, and propensities to utilize support services such as federal relief programs."
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Conference Proceedings, Inspiration: Come to the Headwaters, June 10-14, 1991
Association of State Floodplain Managers. Conference
Proceedings of the fifteenth annual conference of the Association of State Floodplain Managers held in Denver, Colorado, from June 10 to 14, 1991
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Report, Building Code Enforcement Following Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina, 1991
Elliott Mittler
The enforcement of building codes following a major disaster has not been well studied. The purpose of this research was to investigate how building codes were complied with in the city of Charleston and neighboring South Carolina cities and counties during the initial recovery period following Hurricane Hugo."
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Report, Psychological Sequela of Hurricane Hugo: An Application of the Conservation of Resources Model of Stress, 1991
Darlene L. Shaw, Pat Jarrell, John Freedy, and Cheryl Bene
"The overall goal of this project was to generate empirical data which would allow us to evaluate the applicability of Hobfoll's theoretical model of stress for predicting psychological response to natural disasters."
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Report, Psychosocial Correlates of Fire Disaster among Children and Adolescents, 1991
Russell T. Jones, David P. Ribbe, and Phillippe Belton Cunningham
"This study examined the extent of children's and adolescents' psychosocial maladjustment associated with a natural disaster, namely, wildfire. … The major goal of this study was to assess systematically the short-term mental health consequences of a wildlife disaster among children and adolescents."
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Report, Reliability of Delayed Self-Reports in Disaster Research, 1991
Fran H. Norris and Krzysztof Kaniasty
"In studies of traumatic stress, researchers often find themselves asking questions about an event and its aftermath long after the crisis has passed. The purpose of this study was to assess the reliability of these delayed self-reports" with a case study focused on Hurricane Hugo which hit Charleston, South Carolina.
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Report, Evacuation Decision Making and Public Response in Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina
Earl J. Baker
A report looking at the decision making for evacuation orders in South Carolina for Hurricane Hugo. The report also looks at the public's response to evacuation orders.
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Report, Psychological Effects of Disaster on Children and their Families: Hurricane Hugo and the Loma Prieta Earthquake, July 1990
Judith A. Boore, Gina Earle, and Lewis Aptekar
"This study explored the relationship between resiliency and psychopathology or emotional reaction of children to natural disaster." The study focused on children and families affected by Hurricane Hugo in McClellanville, South Carolina, and those affected by the Loma Prieta Earthquake in California.
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Report, Report on Trip to Charleston County, South Carolina, after Hurricane Hugo, January 4, 1990
Claire B. Rubin
Claire Rubin "was able to visit the Charleston County area five weeks after Hurricane Hugo hit. The revised objectives of [her] on-site visit were to obtain information about the early planning for recovery and about the efficiency and effectiveness of the intergovernmental relations process as recovery planning got underway."
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Report, Community Preparation and Response to the Exxon Oil Spill in Kodiak, Alaska, 1990
Rachel Mason
"A study of community disaster preparation and response to the March 24 Exxon Valdez oil spill was undertaken between May 22 and June 30, 1989 in the Kodiak Island area of south central Alaska."
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Report, Media Influences on Response to a Natural Hazard: The Mississippi River Salt Water Intrusion of 1988, 1990
J. William Spencer and Shirley Laska
"This paper examines how attributes of local media reports may effect local responses to a natural hazard event. The natural hazard of interest is the intrusion of salt water up the Mississippi River to the New Orleans area during the summer of 1988."
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Report, Role of Emergency Mapping in Disaster Response, 1990
Ute J. Dymon
This report investigates a train derailment in rural Pennsylvania and determined "what and how many maps were available for use during the emergency and how they were employed."
