SHELDUS | Selected Applications of the Usage of SHELDUS

Academic Publications:

Boruff, B. J., C. Emrich and S. L. Cutter. 2005. Erosion Hazard Vulnerability of US Coastal Counties. Journal of Coastal Research 21(5): 932-942.

Brody, S. D., S. Zahran, P. Maghelal, H. Grover and W.E. Highfield. 2007. The Rising Costs of Floods Examining the Impact of Planning and Development Decisions on Property Damage in Florida. Journal of the American Planning Association 73(3): 330-345.

Brody, S. D., S. Zahran, W. E. Highfield, H. Grover, and A. Vedlitz. 2008 Identifying the impact of the built environment on flood damage in Texas. Disasters 31(1): 1-18.

Burby, R. J. 2006. Hurricane Katrina and the Paradoxes of Government Disaster Policy: Bringing About Wise Governmental Decisions for Hazardous Areas. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 604 (1): 171-191.

Cutter, S. L. and C. Emrich. 2005. Are Natural Hazards and Disaster Losses in the U.S. Increasing? EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 86(41): 388.

Highfield, W. E. and S.D. Brody. 2006. Price of Permits: Measuring the Economic Impacts of Wetland Development on Flood Damages in Florida. Natural Hazards Review 7(3): 123-130.

Schmidtlein, M. C., S. L. Cutter, and C. Finch. 2008. Disaster declarations and major hazard occurrences in the United States. The Professional Geographer 60(1): 1-14.

Zahran, S., S. D. Brody, W.G. Peacock, A. Vedlitz, and H. Grover. 2008. Social vulnerability and the natural and built environment: a model of flood casualties in Texas. Disasters. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7717.2008.01054.x

Zahran, S., L. Peek, and S. D. Brody. 2008. Youth Mortality by Forces of Nature. Children, Youth and Environments 18(1): 371-388.

Local Hazard Mitigation Planning:

Placer County, California

City of Roseville, California

Broome County, New York

Suffolk County, New York

Town of Apex, North Carolina

Grant County, Washington

State Hazard Mitigation Planning:

Colorado

Montana

South Carolina

Washington

Other Applications:

National Atlas of the United States

Multi-attribute aspects for risk assessment of natural hazards by E.M. Hammel and R. B. Corotis, 2007 (ppt)


 

 

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