The flooding of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina provides many lessons for the environmental and engineering … not significantly different now from environmental conditions before Hurricane Katrina. This discussion focuses on …

common than official flood maps would predict, suggesting that local knowledge may also mitigate disaster impacts. …

residents after the 2005 flood caused by levee breaches in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Respondents 65 years and over were … management and disaster resilience. This study examines the self-reported experiences, psychological effects, and evacuation … that old age can be more of a resource than a weakness in the face of disaster. Disaster policy should consider and plan …

2007, the authors find a strong positive impact of disaster-related deaths on subsequent terrorism deaths and incidence … consistently significant and robust across a multitude of disaster and terrorism measures for a diverse set of model specifications …. The results have strong implications for both disaster and terrorism mitigation policy …

discretionary power in a partisan manner. We analyze the allocation of presidential disaster declarations in the United States …, exploiting the spatiotemporal randomness of hurricane strikes from 1965–2018 along with changes in political alignment. We show …

discretionary power in a partisan manner. We analyze the allocation of presidential disaster declarations in the United States …, exploiting the spatiotemporal randomness of all hurricane strikes from 1965-2018. We show that biased declaration behavior is not … politically affordable if a disaster is either very strong or weak, when relief provision is clearly necessary or not. However, in …