Download or read book Preventing and Mitigating Hurricane Damage written by Wilton F. Chalker and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Safer Future written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1991-02-01 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initial priorities for U.S. participation in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, declared by the United Nations, are contained in this volume. It focuses on seven issues: hazard and risk assessment; awareness and education; mitigation; preparedness for emergency response; recovery and reconstruction; prediction and warning; learning from disasters; and U.S. participation internationally. The committee presents its philosophy of calls for broad public and private participation to reduce the toll of disasters.
Download or read book Hurricane Mitigation for the Built Environment written by Ricardo A. Alvarez and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alvarez drives home the point that for buildings and communities located in hurricane-prone regions, it is not a question of whether the area will be impacted, but when it will be impacted. The book makes a strong case for taking responsibility to understand the vulnerabilities of buildings and structures to hurricane impacts." Timothy Reinhold, P
Download or read book Catastrophic Coastal Storms written by David R. Godschalk and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hurricane Damage to Residential Structures written by Jon K. Ayscue and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Property damage and loss from hurricanes have increased with population growth in coastal areas, and climatic factors point to more frequent and intense hurricanes in the future. This paper describes potential hurricane hazards from wind and water. Damage to residential structures from three recent intense hurricanes - Hugo, Andrew, and Iniki - shows that wind is responsible for greater property loss than water. The current state-of-the-art building technology is sufficient to reduce damage from hurricanes when properly applied, and this paper discusses those building techniques that can mitigate hurricane damage and recommends measures for mitigating future hurricane damage to homes.
Download or read book Mitigating Hurricane and Tornado Damage written by James Land and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We can save lives, taming Nature's Fierceness and Wrath. Never again, a Katrina. We can cut hurricane and tornado losses. Existing technologies can link to reduce damage from, or steer away, severe storms. We can force rain to fall, enlisting gravity to decrete storm energy.
Download or read book Hurricane Damage to Residential Structures written by Jon K. Ayscue and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Property damage and loss from hurricanes have increased with population growth in coastal areas, and climatic factors point to more frequent and intense hurricanes in the future. This paper describes potential hurricane hazards from wind and water. Damage to residential structures from three recent intense hurricanes - Hugo, Andrew, and Iniki - shows that wind is responsible for greater property loss than water. The current state-of-the-art building technology is sufficient to reduce damage from hurricanes when properly applied, and this paper discusses those building techniques that can mitigate hurricane damage and recommends measures for mitigating future hurricane damage to homes.
Download or read book Hurricane Damage Mitigation Plan for the South Shore of Nassau and Suffolk Counties New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond the Storms written by Dane S Egli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with both actual and potential terrorist attacks on the United States as well as natural disaster preparedness and management in the current era of global climate change. The topics of preparedness, critical infrastructure investments, and risk assessment are covered in detail. The author takes the reader beyond counterterrorism statistics, better first responder equipment, and a fixation on FEMA grant proposals to a holistic analysis and implementation of mitigation, response, and recovery efforts. The recent Oklahoma tornadoes and West Texas storage tank explosion show the unpredictability of disaster patterns, and the Boston Marathon bombings expose the difficulty in predicting and preventing attacks. Egli makes a compelling case for a culture of resilience by asserting a new focus on interagency collaboration, public-private partnerships, and collective action. Building upon the lessons of the 9/11 attacks, hurricane Katrina, and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the basic findings are supported by a creative mix of case studies, which include superstorm Sandy, cascading power outages, GPS and other system vulnerabilities, and Japan's Fukushima disaster with its sobering aftermath. This book will help a new generation of leaders understand the need for smart resilience.
Download or read book Role of City Texture in Identifying Drag Coefficients of Buildings to Prevent Hurricane Damage written by Jacob Roxon and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane damage is one of the costliest and most frequent of natural disasters. In total, the cumulative cost of all 16 hurricanes in the US in 2017 was in excess of $300 billion and by 2075 the average annual damage cost in the US is expected to rise by nearly 40%. In order to mitigate disaster damage, governments mandate minimum standards for construction depending on location and building type--standards known as building codes. Yet most codes remain insufficient as they account only for individual buildings and overlook the influence of city layout on wind speeds and storm damage. To reinvigorate design codes and better predict hurricane damage, we propose a new city texture resilience approach, which accounts for local geometric layouts to predict more accurate building codes. Tested using computational fluid dynamics simulations for different city textures with common geometrical layouts, we found that the city texture model, derived using online GIS data of building footprints, predicts with 67% accuracy damage from 2018 Hurricane Michael in Mexico Beach, FL. Furthermore, we find that ordered "crystal" cites have higher susceptibility to hurricane damage showing higher proportion of buildings with upper range values of drag coefficients. Using this approach, stakeholders can readily identify entire cities (or neighborhoods) with high susceptibility to hurricane damage. Moreover, they can identify buildings with the highest risk of damage, which will offer targeted retrofitting, thereby enabling more resilient developments and urban planning to reduce the risk of hurricane damage and mitigate the kinds of extreme damage experienced by communities with histories of high speed winds, especially as climate change is going to intensify future storms
Download or read book Homeowner s Guide to Retrofitting written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hurricane Damage Mitigation Plan for the South Shore of Long Island Counties of Nassau and Suffolk New York written by Lee Koppelman and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preparing for Hurricanes and Coastal Flooding written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prevention of Hurricane Damage written by National Board of Fire Underwriters and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reducing Coastal Risk on the East and Gulf Coasts written by Committee on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Water Resources Science, Engineering, and Planning: Coastal Risk Reduction and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane- and coastal-storm-related losses have increased substantially during the past century, largely due to increases in population and development in the most susceptible coastal areas. Climate change poses additional threats to coastal communities from sea level rise and possible increases in strength of the largest hurricanes. Several large cities in the United States have extensive assets at risk to coastal storms, along with countless smaller cities and developed areas. The devastation from Superstorm Sandy has heightened the nation's awareness of these vulnerabilities. What can we do to better prepare for and respond to the increasing risks of loss? Reducing Coastal Risk on the East and Gulf Coasts reviews the coastal risk-reduction strategies and levels of protection that have been used along the United States East and Gulf Coasts to reduce the impacts of coastal flooding associated with storm surges. This report evaluates their effectiveness in terms of economic return, protection of life safety, and minimization of environmental effects. According to this report, the vast majority of the funding for coastal risk-related issues is provided only after a disaster occurs. This report calls for the development of a national vision for coastal risk management that includes a long-term view, regional solutions, and recognition of the full array of economic, social, environmental, and life-safety benefits that come from risk reduction efforts. To support this vision, Reducing Coastal Risk states that a national coastal risk assessment is needed to identify those areas with the greatest risks that are high priorities for risk reduction efforts. The report discusses the implications of expanding the extent and levels of coastal storm surge protection in terms of operation and maintenance costs and the availability of resources. Reducing Coastal Risk recommends that benefit-cost analysis, constrained by acceptable risk criteria and other important environmental and social factors, be used as a framework for evaluating national investments in coastal risk reduction. The recommendations of this report will assist engineers, planners and policy makers at national, regional, state, and local levels to move from a nation that is primarily reactive to coastal disasters to one that invests wisely in coastal risk reduction and builds resilience among coastal communities.
Download or read book Natural Hazard Mitigation written by Alessandra Jerolleman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the four core phases of emergency management, hazard mitigation is essential for reducing disaster effects on human populations and making communities more resilient to the impacts of hazards. Presenting an up-to-date look at the changing nature of disasters, Natural Hazard Mitigation offers practical guidance on the implementation and selec
Download or read book Surviving the Storm written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
