While conceptual definitions provide a foundation for the study of disasters and their
impacts, the challenge for researchers and practitioners alike has been to develop objective …

Major disasters such as extreme weather events can magnify and exacerbate pre-existing
social disparities, with disadvantaged populations bearing disproportionate costs. Despite …

Despite the rising importance of enhancing community resilience to disasters, our
understandings on when, how and why communities are able to recover from such extreme …

Mobility is one of the fundamental requirements of human life with significant societal
impacts including productivity, economy, social wellbeing, adaptation to a changing climate …

Large-scale disasters often trigger mass evacuation due to significant damages to urban
systems. Understanding the evacuation and reentry (return) process of affected individuals …

Resilience planning and emergency management require policymakers and agency leaders
to make difficult decisions regarding which at-risk populations should be given priority in the …

This research establishes a methodological framework for quantifying community resilience
based on fluctuations in a population's activity during a natural disaster. Visits to points-of …

Cities are complex systems comprised of socioeconomic systems relying on critical services
delivered by multiple physical infrastructure networks. Due to interdependencies between …

With rapid urbanization and increasing climate risks, enhancing the resilience of urban
systems has never been more important. Despite the availability of massive datasets of …

This article contributes to the disaster literature by measuring and connecting two concepts
that are highly related but whose relationship is rarely empirically evaluated: social …