Hazards and Disasters
Researchers Meeting
July 15-16, 2008
Broomfield, Colorado, USA
For the fourth year in a row, the Hazards and Disasters Researchers Meeting followed the Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop in Boulder, Colorado. The meeting was held at the Omni Interlocken Resort July 15-16.
For further information on the Researchers Meeting, e-mail HDRMeeting@gmail.com.
Program
Tuesday, July 15
6:30 p.m.
Keynote Address
Thomas A. Birkland, North Carolina State University
Wednesday, July 16
8:30-10:00
Concurrent Sessions
Critical Infrastructure: Perceptions, Planning, and Going Green
Cindy L. Menches, Arthur B. Markman, and Ryan J. Jones
Differences in Perception of Building Damage Severity: Critical Need to Transfer Knowledge from Engineers to Non-Engineers
Anna Osland
Planning for Transmission Pipeline Hazards: A Study of Emergency Managers and Planning Directors in North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad Metropolitan Area
Jack L. Rozdilsky
Emerging Themes in Sustainable Disaster Recovery: Energy Efficiency and Alternative Energy
Pallab Mozumder
Hurricane Wilma, Utility Disruption, and Household Wellbeing
Community Preparedness: Promoting Practices and Resiliency
David P. Eisenman, Steven Asch, Deborah Glik, Lupe Gonzalez, Richard Maranon, Qiong Zhou, Chi-Hong Tseng
Project PREP–Promotoras de Salud: Improved Disaster Preparedness among Latino Immigrants
June Gin
Disaster Resilience in Community-Based Organizations: Practice-Driven Routines as Strategy for Organizational Change and Learning
Suzanne Frew
Preparing the Community: The San Francisco Bay Area Preparedness Assessment Project
Assessments of Disaster Economic Impacts and Loss Estimation
Modeling
Liang-Chun Chen and Hsin-Chi Li
The Application of a Flood Loss Model in a Flood-prone Area
Jeffrey K. Lazo, Nathaniel F. Bushek, and Emily K. Laidlaw
Assessing the Loss Estimation Methodology Used by the National Weather Service to Produce Damage Data
Maribel Martinez and Bradley Ewing
A Look at the Economic Impact of Tornado-Induced Damage in Tulia, Texas
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
Disaster Recovery: Organizing and Implementing at the Grassroots
Manjae Kim
Voices from the PyeongChang Flood of 2006
Laura Olson, John R. Harrold, and Carol S. Pearson
The Difficulty with Disaster Recovery
Brian Silva
Preparedness as Recovery: Transforming Current Paradigms in Post-disaster Recovery and Redevelopment Planning
Information, Communication, and Mapping Technologies: Uses and Challenges for Disaster Planning, Response, and Recovery
Dale C. Brandenburg, Allen W. Batteau, and Matthew W. Seeger
Using Information Technology to Support Disaster Response: Research and Practitioner Perspectives
Maribel Martinez and Andrea Jackman
Challenges in GIS Utilization for Rural Emergency Managers
Steven M. Ward, Michael Leitner, and John Pine
Investigating Recovery Patterns in Post-Disaster Urban Settings: Utilizing Geotechnology to Understand Post-Hurricane Katrina Recovery in New Orleans, Louisiana
Themes in Disaster Communication: Communicating Predictions, Communicating Warnings, and Challenges of Interdisciplinarity
Edouard Dervichian
Is Central Supervision the Answer? – A Personal Inquiry into the Importance of Communication for Safety and Security in a World of High Tech
Rebecca E. Morss
Interactions among Flood Predictions, Decisions, and Outcomes: A Synthesis of Three Cases
Kevin M. Simmons and Daniel Sutter
False Alarms, Tornado Warnings, and Tornado Casualties
1:00-2:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
Hurricane Katrina and the 2004 Tsunami: Implications for the Future
Terri Adams
Finding Order out of Chaos: Use of Chaos Theory to Examine the Processes of Policing during the Hurricane Katrina Disaster
Nicholas Santella, Kyle Parks, and Laura J. Steinberg
Impacts of Hurricane Katrina Evacuees on Critical Infrastructure in Baton Rouge, LA
Nicole Youngman
Before Katrina: The Transformation from External to Manufactured Flood Risk in New Orleans
Robert C. Reynolds
The Dec. 26, 2004, Tsunami–A Stricken Community Responds on Phi Phi Don Island, Thailand
Socio-Behavioral Research on Decisionmaking for Evacuation, Preparedness, and Response
Jeffrey Czajkowski and Emily Kennedy
Why Exactly Do I want to Evacuate? A Better Understanding of the True Risks of Not Evacuating from a Hurricane
Jie-Ying Wu and Jen-Te Pai
Evacuation Decisionmaking and Behavior between Residents and Mobility-Disadvantaged Groups in Debris-flow Vulnerable Areas
David P. Eisenman, Qiong Zhou, Michael Ong, Steven Asch, Deborah Glik, and Anna Long
Disaster Preparedness and its Association with Mental Health, Perceived General
Health, and Disability
David P. Eisenman, Deborah Glik, Michael Ong, Qiong Zhou, Chi-Hong Tseng, Anna Long, Jonathan Fielding, and Steven Asch
Terrorism-Related Fear and Avoidance Behavior in a Multi-Ethnic Urban Population
Hazard Mitigation and Planning
N. Emel Ganapati
An Institutional pproach to Public Participation: World Bank Post-Disaster Housing Projects in Turkey
Andrea Jackman and Mario G. Beruvides
Risk and Benefit Cost Analysis: Interdependencies in Hazard Mitigation Planning
Andrea Jackman and Mario Beruvides
Multi-Jurisdictional Cooperation in Hazard Mitigation Planning
Sarah Opitz-Stapleton and Marcus Moench
Developing Flood Scenarios and Adaptive Strategies based on Climate Change Models for the Rohini Basin, India and Nepal