Natural Hazards Center Collection

Follow

• 

  Report, 1986 California Floods, 1986

  Robert C. Bolin

  A report split into three sections. First, "a general description of the flooding and its social impacts in northern California;" second, "the study questions that guided research" and "some extant literature on the topic;" and third, "the data looking specifically at social support and mental health impacts of the disaster, relocation stressors, housing problems, pre-disaster social trends and post-disaster effects."

• 

  Report, After the Factory Explosion: Family Reactions to Death in a Disaster 1986

  Joan N. McNeil

  A report with results from interviews with families affected by the Aerlex Corporation fireworks factory explosion.

• 

  Report, Initial Public Response to the Parkfield Earthquake Prediction, 1986

  Dennis S. Mileti and Janice R. Hutton

  "The purpose of this research was to catalogue initial impacts of the 5 April 1985 Parkfield earthquake prediction on the members of the public in-and-around the area of Parkfield."

• 

  Report, Intentionality and Action: Mexico City School Teachers' Perceptions and Expectations Following the 1985 Earthquake, 1986

  Herbert D. Thier, Vivian G. Gratton, and Fred Johnson

  "The intention of the study was to identify teachers perceptions of: what they thought they knew before the event [the 1985 Mexico City earthquake], what they had done since the event, and their perceptions of what needed to be done, educationally, at the time of the survey."

• 

  Report, International Disaster Assistance in the Mexico City Earthquake, 1986

  Louise K. Comfort

  A report analyzing how countries and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) offered disaster assistance to Mexico after the September 1985 earthquake.

• 

  Report, Mass Media and Hurricane Disaster Alerts, 1986

  John A. Ledingham and Lynne Masel-Walters

  A report that aims to answer the questions "What are the forces set in motion by a warning of an impending natural disaster? Are messages effect (do they motivate the intended action)? What sources do residents use, in what ways, to gratify what needs?"

• 

  Report, Psychological Consequences of Radon in the Home, 1986

  Margaret S. Gibbs, Susan Belford, and Michael R. Edelstein

  "This paper will first discuss the role played by a small nonprofit environmental agency in conveying information and assistance to the community about radon. The second part of the paper will report briefly on psychological findings related to radon in a sample from the community."

• 

  Report, Psychological Responses to the Mexico City Earthquake, 1986

  Abigail J. Stewart

  "The broad goal of this study was to assess the emotional, cognitive, psychosocial, and behavioral consequences of disasters (in this case, an earthquake) for victims, less directly affected neighbors, and disaster relief workers. Specifically, the present study was designed to examine the process of adaptation to disasters within a larger framework for studying individuals' responses to traumatic life changes."

• 

  Report, Reactions to Natural and Man-made Radioactive Threat, 1986

  Margaret S. Gibbs and Susan Belford

  A report on the effects of toxic contamination on psychological wellbeing based on the study of 73 Warwick, New York, residents.

• 

  Report, Recovery of Schools from Earthquake Effects: Lessons from Mexico City, 1986

  Vivian G. Gratton

  A report looking at how one school in Mexico City, Colegio Madrid, responded to an earthquake.

• 

  Report, Social Support Following a Disaster, 1986

  Leonard Bickman and Jerome D. Cook

  "Thirty-nine victims of a natural disaster were interviewed six weeks after tornadoes touched down in their communities in east central Ohio and west central Pennsylvania. Data were gathered as part of a pilot study for a subsequent investigation of mental health help-seeking following natural disasters. The present study hypothesized that perceived availability of social support would moderate the stress associated with the disaster, resulting in a negative correlation with a measure of psychological symptomatology."

• 

  Report, Spatial and Temporal Variability in Residential Land Values Following Catastrophic Flooding, 1986

  Burrell Elizabeth Montz and Graham A. Tobin

  "In this research, we examine the impact of one natural hazard, flooding, on one aspect of the human environment, the residential land market." The field research was undertaken in Linda and Olivehurst, California.

• 

  Report, State and Community During the Aftermath of Mexico City's November 19, 1984 Gas Explosion, June 1985

  Kirsten Johnson

  "This paper provides an account and preliminary assessment of the early stages of recovery from the San Juan Ixhuatepec gas explosion disaster. Special attention is paid to the activities and decisions taken during the two months following the explosion."

• 

  Conference Proceedings, Flood Hazard Management in Government and the Private Sector, April 29 - May 3, 1985

  Association of State Floodplain Managers. Conference

  Proceedings from the ninth annual conference of the Association of State Floodplain Managers held in New Orleans, Louisiana, from April 29 to May 3, 1985.

• 

  Book, Community Recovery from a Major Natural Disaster, 1985

  Claire B. Rubin, Martin D. Saperstein, and Daniel G. Barbee

  "For four years, the project team has studied and documented how cities in the process of recovering from disaster do, in fact, accomplish the recovery. The focus of the research is on local governmental interaction and intergovernmental processes during the recovery period. To date, knowledge of the role of community officials in recovery and post disaster mitigation activities has been limited. An essential part of this research was the onsite observations and case studies of 14 recovering communities in the United States."

• 

  Report, Defensiveness, Level of Psychological Distress, and Help-Seeking Behavior among Victims of a Major Natural Disaster, 1985

  Anthony V. Rao, Kenneth E. Davis, and Leonard Bickman

  "The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between this personality variable and help-seeking behavior in an actual disaster setting. In this exploratory analysis, a model is presented that was guided by previous research on help-seeking behavior in laboratory settings."

• 

  Report, Increasing Problem-Solving Capacity between Organizations, 1985

  Louise K. Comfort and Anthony G. Cahill

  "The thesis of this paper is that interorganizational problem solving capacity increases as the flow of information, articulation of professional norms for selecting and interpreting relevant information, interpersonal communication and regular opportunities for reflection and redesign of performance increase among the participating organizations."

• 

  Conference Proceedings, Managing High Risk Flood Areas: 1985 and Beyond, June 11-14, 1984

  Association of State Floodplain Managers. Conference

  The proceedings of the eighth annual conference of the Association of State Floodplain Managers held in Portland, Maine, from June 11 to 14, 1984.

• 

  Workshop Proceedings, Improving the Effectiveness of Floodplain Management in Western State High-Risk Areas: Alluvial Fans, Mudflows, Mud Floods, February 15-16, 1984

  Association of State Floodplain Managers

  The proceedings of a workshop held by the Association of State Floodplain Managers held in Palm Springs, California, on February 15-16, 1984.

• 

  Report, Niño as a Natural Hazard: Its Role in the Development of Cultural Complexity on the Peruvian Coast, August 1983

  Joseph J. Lischka

  "This paper suggests that all the arguments concerning the primacy of maritime vs. agricultural subsistence on the coast during the Cotton Preceramic are overly simplistic. They do not take fully into account the complexity and unique characteristics of the Peruvian coastal environment, and tend to ignore the ability to adapt to temporal environmental variation."

• 

  Lecture, The Human Environment: Penultimate Problems of Survival, January 27, 1983

  Robert William Kates

  A bound and published copy of Robert Kates' lecture as part of the Reuben G. Gustavson Memorial Lectures sponsored by Resources for the Future, Inc., of Washington, D.C. Kates' gave his lecture at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

• 

  Report, Trends and Developments in Global Natural Disasters, 1947 to 1981, August 1982

  Stephen A. Thompson

  "The 'trends' of a decreasing number of disaster impacts and an increasing occurrence of large-area disasters have apparently reversed (as so many trends which are based on short time series are wont to do) through the decade of the 1970s. Floods remain the single most frequent disaster by type, followed by earthquakes and tornadoes; the three together comprise over 67% of all disasters. The average number of major natural disasters annually is 30.3, which compares to 31.4 for the period 1947-1967, and 30.9 for 1947-1973."

• 

  Report, Human Ecology of Extreme Geophysical Events

  Ian Burton, Robert William Kates, and Gilbert F. White

  A report about how people of a place view a hazard or natural disaster.