International Research Committee on Disasters Researchers Meeting
Wednesday, June 25 through Thursday, June 26, 2014
Omni Interlocken Resort
Broomfield, Colorado
The IRCD Researchers Meeting, a partnership between the International Sociological Association's International Research Committee on Disasters and the Natural Hazards Center, follows the main Hazards Workshop. For more information on the IRCD, please visit the RC-39 Web site.
Register for the IRCD Researchers Meeting using the Natural Hazards Workshop online registration. A welcoming reception, continental breakfast, and lunch are included in the registration cost.
Schedule
Wednesday, June 25
Interlocken D
6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Registration
Lobby Court and Terrace
6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Reception and Cash Bar
Thursday, June 26
Centennial Foyer
7:30 to 10:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
Centennial Foyer
8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Registration
Centennial F
8:30 to 9:45 p.m.
Plenary Session
Presentation of the E.L. Quarantelli Award for Social Science Disaster
Theory. Keynote address from the award recipient.
9:45 to 10:00 a.m.
Break
10:00 to 11:45 a.m.
Centennial F
Warnings and
Protective Action
Social Perceptions of Flash Floods and Motivations for Protective Action Behavior: A Case Study of the 2013 Flash Floods in Uttarakhand, North India
Sudha Arlikatti, University of North Texas
Michael K. Lindell, Texas A&M University
Households’ Evacuation Decision in Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
Shih-Kai Huang, Texas A&M University
Michael K. Lindell, Texas A&M University
Carla S. Prater, Texas A&M University
TV Media and the Communication of Severe Weather Risk
Joseph Trainor, University of Delaware
Caitlin Gruber, University of Delaware
Endogenous Risk Perception, Geospatial Characteristics and
Hurricane Evacuation Behavior
Subrina Tahsin, Florida International University
Pallab Mozumder, Florida International University
Interlocken C
Public Perception
How Different News Media Reports Shape Judgments that Earthquake Damage Can Be Prevented: Mixed Messages About the Canterbury Earthquake
John McClure, Victoria University of Wellington
Justin Velluppillia, Victoria University of Wellington
Perceived Risks of Mountain Landslides in Italy: Stated Choices for Subjective Risk Reductions
Douglass W Shaw, Texas A&M University
Mara Thien, University of Padua
Riccardo Scarpa, University of Waikato
Using Geonarratives to Understand Environmental Perception in Post-Disaster Recovery: A Pilot Study from the May 22, 2011 Joplin Tornado
Jacqueline W. Curtis, Kent State University
Andrew Curtis, Kent State University
Steve Smith, Missouri Southern State University
Interlocken D
Diversity and Disaster
Perceptions of Poverty in Disaster Recovery and Aid Distribution
Sarah Hamideh, Texas A&M University
Michelle Meyer, Texas A&M University
Marccus Hendricks, Texas A&M University
John Cooper, Texas A&M University
David Bierking, Texas A&M University
Shannon Van Zandt, Texas A&M University
Walter Gillis Peacock, Texas A&M University
The Social Networks of Individuals with Disabilities in Disaster
Laura M. Stough, Texas A&M University
Elizabeth McAdams Ducy, Texas A&M University
Longitudinal Analysis of Anti-Islamic Hate Crime Before and After September 11, 2001
Michelle Meyer, Texas A&M University
Lori Peek, Colorado State University
Predicting Public Support towards Environmental Migrants: Natural Disasters and Xenophobia
Hans M. Louis-Charles, University of Delaware
Noon to 1:00 p.m.
Lunch in the Outside Pavilion
1:00 to 2:30 p.m.
Centennial F
Housing Recovery
Family Structures, Relationships, and Relocation Decisions after Hurricane Sandy
Zhen Cong, Texas Tech University
Ali Nejat, Texas Tech University
Jian Luo, Texas Tech University
Dann Liang, Texas Tech University
Understanding the Relationships between Household Decisions
and Infrastructure Investment in Disaster Recovery: Cases from Superstorm Sandy
Alex Greer, University of Delaware
Sue McNeil, University of Delaware
Joseph Trainor, University of Delaware
Israt Jahan, University of Delaware
Long-Term Housing Recovery after Disasters: Findings from
Miami and Galveston
Walter Gillis Peacock, Texas A&M University
Shannon Van Zandt, Texas A&M University
Yang Zhang, Virginia Tech
Wesley Highfield, Texas A&M University
Interlocken C
Vulnerability and Resilience
Evacuation Planning around Nuclear Power Plants: Is the United States Prepared for What Happened in Japan?
Dana Green, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Measuring Disaster Resilience as a Set of Adaptive Capacities: Insights from the Application of Cutter’s Resilience Index to the Gulf Coast
Ashley Ross, Sam Houston State University
Vulnerability and Hurricane Evacuation Expectations in the Lower
Rio Grande Valley
Y. Gurt Ge, North Dakota State University
Shih-Kai Huang, Texas A&M University
Michael K. Lindell, Texas A&M University
Carla S Prater, Texas A&M University
Hao-Che Wu, Sam Houston State University
Improving the Validity of Social Vulnerability Indicators
Chris Emrich, University of South Carolina
Eric Tate, University of Iowa
Seth Spielman, University of Colorado
Interlocken D
Emergency Management and Disaster Responses
Analysis of the Incident Command System (ICS)
Hsien-Ho Chang, University of Delaware
Exploring Scientific Uncertainty Through Table Top Emergency Management Exercises
Emma Hudson-Doyle, Massey University
Douglas Paton, University of Tasmania
David Johnston, GNS Science
Necessity as the Mother of Invention: Innovative Responses to
Natural Disasters
Qing Miao, Syracuse University
David Popp, Syracuse University
2:30 to 2:45 p.m.
Break
2:45 to 4:15 p.m.
Centennial F
Estimating Death and Disruption
Examining the Efficiency of Disaster Aid Policies Using Mortgage Performance Data
Eric Best, Jacksonville State University
Estimating the Effects of Utility Disruption on Household Wellbeing During Hurricane Sandy
Sisi Meng, Florida International University
Pallab Mozumder, Florida International University
Mortality in the Sichuan Earthquake
John Nichols, Texas A&M University
K Tan, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, Sichuan
Uncertainty Analysis of HAZUS
Eric Tate, University of Iowa
Cristina Muñoz, University of Iowa
Interlocken C
Empowered Communities
Against the Odds: Three Cases of Alternative Post-Disaster Recovery Pathways
Nabil Kamel, Arizona State University
Bottom-up Disaster Management in China: a case study on One
Foundation
Guochun Wu, China Earthquake Administration
Youth Creating Disaster Recovery: A Canadian-U.S. Community-
Based Participatory Research Project
Jennifer Tobin-Gurley, Colorado State University
Lori Peek, Colorado State University
Robin Cox, Royal Roads University
Cheryl Heykoop, Royal Roads University
Interlocken D
Planning
Understanding the Relationships of Risk, Land Use and Time for a Planning Decision after a Major Disaster
Kanako Iuchi, Tohoku University
Exercise Target Red: Establishing Protocols to Encompass Psychosocial Considerations for Casualties and Families in Mass-Casualty Incidents (MCI) involved an Active Shooter
Laurie Pearce, JIBC
Planning, Informality, and Uneven Geographies of Risk: A Study of Bidhannagar, Kolkata
Andrew Rumbach, University of Colorado Denver
Planning Aid by University Teachers in Recovery Planning Process in Tohoku Region
Michio Ubaura, Tohoku University
4:15 to 4:30 p.m.
Centennial F
Closing Remarks
Walter Gillis Peacock, Bill Lovekamp, and Joe Trainor