This article synthesizes the literature on poverty and disasters in the United States and
presents the results from a wide range of studies conducted over the past twenty years. The …

Community coordination requires communication and planning of precautions to take when
faced with a severe threat of disaster. The unique case of the four Florida hurricanes of 2004 …

In general, the identification and protection of vulnerable groups in the case of hazards or
when a crisis unfolds is an issue that any crisis and disaster risk management should …

The term'natural disaster'is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes,
hurricanes or floods. However, the phrase'natural disaster'suggests an uncritical acceptance …

Interviews with 30 women in two shires in Victoria, Australia, confirmed that domestic
violence increased following the catastrophic Black Saturday bushfires on February 7, 2009 …

Adverse outcomes from 2014 flooding in Serbia indicated problematic response phase
management accentuated by a gender imbalance. For this reason, we investigated the risk …

This paper presents a multimodal evacuation simulation for a near-field tsunami through an
agent-based modeling framework in Netlogo. The goals of this paper are to investigate (1) …

Although climate change is expected to increase vulnerabilities, marginalization, and
sufferings of many in the Global South, impacts will be unevenly felt across social strata …

We report findings from a mixed method study of women's gendered experiences with flash
floods in the coastal city of Lagos, Nigeria. Drawing on narrative accounts from 36 …

Purpose The way that disasters are managed, or indeed mis-managed, is often represented
diagrammatically as a “disaster cycle”. The cyclical aspects of the disaster (risk) …