Assessment of Public Shelter Users’ Satisfaction: Lessons Learned from South-Central Texas Flood

Mayunga, Joseph

doi:10.1061/(asce)nh.1527-6996.0000055

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“…Over 80% of residents in the mandatory evacuation zone evacuated during the 2008 Cedar Rapids Iowa flood, and similar to hurricane evacuation, most residents took shelter in homes of friends or relatives (84.3%) (Siebeneck and Cova, ). A high percentage (30%) used public shelters during a 1998 Texas flood, but more people stayed with friends or relatives (40%) (Mayunga, ). The difference between these two events may have been due partially to demographic differences between the locations.…”

Section: Actions Taken In Response To Weather Hazards or Warningsmentioning

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The Public Response to Hazardous Weather Events: 25 Years of Research

Sherman–Morris

2013

Geography Compass

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Recent disasters with high numbers of fatalities such as Hurricane Katrina or the 2011 southeastern tornado outbreak demonstrate the need to understand the public's response in extreme weather events. Much of what we know about how an individual responds to a weather hazard comes from case study research on behaviors and perceptions following single events. Because many of the actions are context specific, it is important to periodically review these case studies as a group to identify any trends that cut across hazards or locations. This paper examines research on individual-level response to weather hazards from 1988 to 2012 and identifies similarities among the events. In conducting the review, the author also identified those areas in the response to hazardous weather events that are least frequently studied, including response to extreme heat and winter storms and to a lesser extent the response to flood events in the USA. Subjects covered in many of the papers included how one becomes aware of the hazard, how one responds, and what factors influence the response. Each of these subjects is discussed for each type of event, followed by a summary of the generalizations that may be made from these case studies.Recent events such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Southeastern tornado outbreak of 2011 show that mass casualties can still occur during extreme weather events. Despite decreasing trends in fatalities, the societal causes of economic losses (Kunkel et al. 1999) and the potential for catastrophic events reveal the importance of understanding the public's response to weather hazards. Many papers have described the response to specific hazardous weather events. Fewer papers address patterns across events within one type of hazard. A very limited number of authors have examined response to multiple hazards in a comprehensive way (e.g. ). Of these works, three were written over 20 years ago. The last two publications provide a good summary of the warning and response process, but neither attempts to comprehensively review literature from each type of atmospheric hazard. The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of 25 years of research on the response to five hazardous weather events (floods, heat, hurricanes, tornadoes, and winter storms) from 1988 to 2012This review of the literature is important for several reasons. Most studies published on weather hazards focused on one hazard in particular, and many of these focus on the response to only one event. Trumbo et al. (2011) noted the lack of studies focusing on multiple natural hazards together. Single-event studies generate important knowledge; but, at some point, it is important analyze the body of knowledge as a whole to identify those areas in which our knowledge is strong and identify gaps that exist in the literature. For example, the discussion will show that hurricanes and tornadoes have received much more attention from scholars than winter weather or extreme heat and cold. The analysis will also identify similarities that e...

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Section: Actions Taken In Response To Weather Hazards or Warningsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Public Response to Hazardous Weather Events: 25 Years of Research

Sherman–Morris

2013

Geography Compass

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“…Early shelter planning research focuses on the principles of shelter location (James et al 1996, Liu et al on these principles, there are numerous studies on establishing refuge-suitable evaluation models for shelters (Xu et al 2008, Chu and Su 2011, Ma et al 2011, Cheng et al 2012, He et al 2012, Mayunga 2012. Location selection is currently a popular topic in the research on shelter planning.…”

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A non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm for the location and districting planning of earthquake shelters

Sai-ni

Xü

2014

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

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The improvement of emergency coping capacity is one of the most efficient measures for mitigating disaster impact. Shelter planning is an important strategy to reduce the number of casualties and injuries and facilitate disaster recovery. This study aims to address earthquake shelter location selection and the districting planning of service areas jointly. A bi-objective model is proposed to minimise the total evacuation distance and the total cost, subject to capacity and contiguity constraints. A nondominated sorting genetic algorithm is developed to tackle the bi-objective model, which involves a multitude of decision variables. To fit the model, the chromosome structure, initialisation process and genetic operators in the algorithm are specifically designed to maintain the contiguity of the service area. And a hybrid strategy of bidirectional multi-point crossover and bidirectional single-point crossover helps promote the diversity of the solutions and accelerate the convergence. Moreover, the Pareto-optimal strategy and feasibility-based rule are combined to obtain trade-offs between objectives. The model and algorithm are validated in a case study of the earthquake shelter location and districting planning problem in Chaoyang District of Beijing, and the results confirm the effectiveness and efficiency of the method.

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“…From the perspective of users, Pine et al (2003) assessed hurricane shelters and found the reasons why people did not use some shelters. Mayunga (2012) investigated the users' satisfaction and proposed some suggestions in the shelters planning. Functionally, Gall (2004) assessed the availability and accessibility of emergency shelters with raster-based model.…”

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A planning framework based on system theory and GIS for urban emergency shelter system: A case of Guangzhou, China

Chen

Zhai

Fan

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Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal

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The urban emergency shelter is of great significance to disaster prevention and mitigation. In China, the demand is enormous for emergency shelters while their construction generally lags behind the economic and social development, which has resulted in heavy casualties and economic losses. This article considers emergency shelters as a complete system from systemic perspective and also proposes a planning framework for emergency shelter system, including the function, hierarchy, type, scale, layout, standard, and supporting-service system of the shelters. Then, an empirical study applying the framework in GIS platform in the urban emergency shelter planning of Guangzhou city was conducted and highly valued by local experts and citizens as a feasible scheme to guide the construction of emergency shelters, indicating that the framework is an appropriate tool for urban emergency shelter planning.

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Assessment of Public Shelter Users’ Satisfaction: Lessons Learned from South-Central Texas Flood

Cited by 17 publications

References 7 publications

The Public Response to Hazardous Weather Events: 25 Years of Research

The Public Response to Hazardous Weather Events: 25 Years of Research

A non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm for the location and districting planning of earthquake shelters

A planning framework based on system theory and GIS for urban emergency shelter system: A case of Guangzhou, China

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