Annotated Bibliography of Hazard and Flood-Related Articles
Worth, M.F. and B.F. McLuckie, 1977: Get to high ground!: The warning process in the Colorado floods June 1965. Disaster Research Center Historical and Comparative Disaster Series #3, 74pp.
In 1965, eastern Colorado experienced major flash flooding. This report compares the warning process of ten communities in the northeast and southeast quadrants of Colorado, including their institutional response and…
Tierney, K., 1993: Disaster preparedness and response: Research findings and guidance from the social science literature. US-ROC Workshop on Natural Disaster Reduction, Taipei, Taiwan.
This paper is a non-comprehensive literature review on the state of social science research on disasters, with particular focus on the phases of preparedness and response. It provides guidance on…
Stein, R.M., L. Dueñas-Osorio, D. Subramanian, 2010: Who evacuates when hurricanes approach? The role of risk, information, and location. Social Science Quarterly, 91(3), pp 816-834.
This article discusses the factors that determine whether or not someone evacuates when a hurricane approaches. The article is separated into several sections: The first section dives into the literature…
Spiegel, J.P., 1957: The English flood of 1953. Human Organization, 16(2), 3-5.
This ethnographic study discusses the situation of a town that was affected by a flash flood in England prior to the impact, during the impact, and post-impact (recovery). The cyclone-induced…
Sorenson, J.H., 2000: Hazard warning systems: Review of 20 years of progress. Natural Hazards Review, 1(2), 119-125.
This research stems from the notion that the United States has no universal national warning method concerning all hazards. Rather, governments and private organizations have varying strategies to warn the…
Sorenson, J.H., 1991: When shall we leave? Factors affecting the timing of evacuation departures. International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 9(2), 153-165.
This is one of few articles that looks at the timing of evacuations, specifically when and why people evacuate during hazards. The author statistically examined individual variation in the timing…
Sorenson, J. H. and D.S. Mileti, 1988: Warning and evacuation: Answering some basic questions. Industrial Crisis Quarterly 2, 2(3 & 4), 195-209.
The authors analyze data from numerous behavioral studies of public evacuation response. It address five common questions asked by emergency managers and personnel and attempts to clarify some common myths…
Ruin, I., J.D. Creutin, S. Anquetin, E. Gruntfest, and C. Lutoff, 2009: Human vulnerability to flash floods: Addressing physical exposure and behavioural questions. Flood Risk Management, 1005-1012.
This paper combines hydrometeorology and social science in an effort to better understand social vulnerabilities to flash floods. The authors argue that integrating these two fields can substantially improve the…
Ruin, I., J.D. Creutin, S. Anquetin, and C. Lutoff, 2008: Human exposure to flash floods – Relation between flood parameters and human vulnerability during a storm of September 2002 in Southern France. Journal of Hydrology, 361(1-2), 199-213.
The objective of this paper is to better understand the physical and human factors that contribute to flood casualties in a flood in the Gard region of France in September…
Ruin, I., J.C. Gaillard, and C. Lutoff, 2007: How to get there? Assessing motorists’ flash flood risk perception on daily itineraries. Environmental Hazards, 7, 235-244.
Flash floods are particularly dangerous for motorists for a variety of reasons, making it difficult for motorists to perceive their risk associated with a flood. This study uses cognitive mapping…