Effectively controlling the spread of contagious illnesses has become a critical focus of
disaster planning. It is likely that quarantine will be a key part of the overall public health …

For this review, we included a wide range of literature related to emergency preparedness
planning and information on the evacuation of carless residents, including minority, low …

Hurricanes are one of the most costly natural disasters in the United States and have
increased in frequency in the last few years. The critical role of evacuation, particularly for …

Although there is a substantial amount of research on households' hurricane evacuation
decision making, there is much less research on the logistical issues involved in …

Though most hurricane evacuation studies have focused on residents, tourists are also a
vulnerable population. To assess their perceptions of risk and evacuation likelihood under …

Prior research shows that when people perceive the risk of some hazardous event to be low,
they are unlikely to engage in mitigation activities for the potential hazard. We believe one …

Improving community resiliency to wildfire is a challenging problem in the face of ongoing
development in fire-prone regions. Evacuation and shelter-in-place are the primary options …

To better understand household hurricane evacuation decisions, this paper addresses a
limitation to existing hurricane evacuation modeling aspects by developing a dynamic model …

Two freely available, searchable databases that track the normalized interest in specific
search queries, Google Trends and Google Insights, were used to illustrate spatial and …

This paper quantifies hurricane damage caused by climate change across the US. A
damage function is estimated from historic hurricane data to measure the impacts at each …