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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Disaster Research"”.
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A discourse on geospatial technology applications in predictive analytics and evidence-based decision support for disaster research and management
… are creating a new geography of hazards and disasters. Increasing storm frequencies coupled with unrelenting efforts to control flooding through structural means will undoubtedly intensify the intersection between flood hazards and humans. Accordingly, the baseline capacity of places to …
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Socio-Cultural Differences In Coping From Stressful Events As A Result of Hurricane Katrina
… to resilient behaviors. Implications for natural disaster research and future directions in policy making are discussed.</p>
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The Impact of Natural Disasters on Academic Achievement Amongst Emerging Adults
Natural disasters are largely unexpected, and their disruptive nature can devastate people’s homes, their finances, and their psychological well-being. Less, however, is known about the extent to which natural disasters can impact students’ academic achievement levels. Previous studies on natural …
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A Methodological Exploration of Mailed Survey Research in a Post Disaster Setting
… of the implemented methods of two mailed survey research projects conducted in post-Katrina New Orleans. Mailed survey research is an essential part of the recovery process following a major disaster in which people have been displaced. A survey can provide insight into how many residents intend …
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An investigation of maternal psychopathology as a moderator of child response following Hurricane Katrina
Previous disaster research has focused on possible risk factors that contribute to child psychological distress following disaster exposure. One of these factors, parental psychopathology, has consistently been indicated as associated with and predictive of child functioning post-disaster. In …
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When disaster strikes: human responses to wildfires and evacuation in the south of France and Australia
… by this growing problem. Consequently, researchers have conducted studies of wildfires and human behaviour in response to wildfire evacuations in regions such as Australia and the USA. Regions in Europe have received less attention, despite facing the same issues. In addition, due to the …
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Evolving technologies for disaster planning in U.S. Cities
… agencies - particularly within the field of disaster management. This paper draws on the evolution of disaster research, the history of disaster management in the US, literature on emerging uses of social media technology, and interviews from 24 emergency management offices in the US to …
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Factors Affecting Household Disaster Preparedness: A Study of the Canadian Context
This study addresses the issue of household disaster preparedness. This work contributes two elements to disaster research. The first contribution improve the knowledge of the factors that affect household disaster preparedness. The review of literature yielded three categories of variables that …
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Approaching Disaster Vulnerability in a Megacity: Community Resilience to Flooding in two Kampungs in Jakarta
The capacity of a society to adapt and cope with disasters is generally discussed under the term resilience. It is a concept that entered vulnerability research recently and that will still need further theoretical underpinning and empirical grounding. The vulnerability context of urban poor can be …
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Responding to Natural Hazards: The Effects of Disaster on Residential Location Decisions and Health Outcomes
… climate change, underscores the importance of disaster research and continued advancements in hazard risk mitigation. This dissertation conducts analyses regarding the effects of natural hazards on residential location choice, county migration rates, mental health status, and displacement. The …
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Development of data integration strategies to improve interdisciplinarity in hazards research
… hazards, a more integrated approach to hazards research is needed. The current state of the hazards and disaster research continues to work more in disciplinary silos with progress being made around the world. This progress is ongoing, and this dissertation contributes to the investigation of …
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Towards Developing A Theory of Failure Causality In Operations Management
… competitive advantage. However, extant research related to operational failures, frequently termed as accident research, is predominantly found in other disciplines and literature streams. It is also mostly associated with major disasters and employs case based methodology. Therefore …
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Practitioner Perspectives on After Action Reports for Cross-Organizational Emergency Preparedness Learning
… studies that have been completed in this area of research are content analyses which have explored potential similarities and themes that exist across AARs. These studies have concluded that inadequate report standardization (Davies et al., 2019), difficulty locating and accessing relevant reports …
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“Girls Interrupted”: Young women ‘growing up’ in post-Katrina New Orleans: an exploration of the intersections of genders, sexualities and youth
This study draws on gender and disaster scholarship, feminist trans/methodology and queer theories to explore how growing up after Hurricane Katrina affected young women’s life course, particularly their gender and sexual identities. Gender and disaster scholarship has drawn out the gendered …