Natural Hazards Center

Using Salt Lake County, UT, as a case study, this research examines pre-disaster policies focused on providing post-disaster housing for public housing residents.

Hurricane Maria was one of the most devastating storms in United States history. The tremendous force of the hurricane, along with the associated wind, rain, flooding, and critical infrastructure damage, caused incredible disruption to lives and

This study aims to fill a knowledge gap on the extent to which community-level mitigation activities impact business disaster recovery efforts in the US. Using data gathered from 25 semi-structured interviews with businesses and local government staff

Certain housing types and housing markets in coastal communities are often overlooked in the disaster recovery process because American housing recovery policy focuses on single-family, owner-occupied housing and neglects single and multi-family rental housing. In turn, coastal vacation homes contend with limited resources for recovery.

Biased disaster mitigation leads to unequal disaster impacts and differential recovery rates in cross-sections of communities. These problems are solvable using an approach that improves biased disaster mitigation by investing in better infrastructure in socially vulnerable neighborhoods and updating recovery policy to not overlook vulnerable households.

This issue of the Observer focuses on culture, community and disaster and examines several cases of disaster recovery and response regarding community participation and inclusion. The issue also makes the case for addressing the wide range of needs of

This report evaluates the perception and preparedness, flood impacts, and recovery of Lewis County (Washington) businesses affected by the December 2007 Pacific Northwest Floods. It specifically addresses the type of businesses engaged in pre-event flood