The virtuous circle in disaster recovery: who returns and stays in town after disaster evacuation?

Kim, Jungbu; Oh, Seong Soo

doi:10.1080/13669877.2013.822917

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“…While research has not been done on evacuation trends during pregnancy, during the 2004 hurricane season 1 in 4 individuals of the total Florida population evacuated their primary residence during one or more hurricane events (Smith and McCarty 2009). Individuals most often relocate or return to the same county within a relatively short period of time (Kim and Oh 2014).…”

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Hurricane Charley Exposure and Hazard of Preterm Delivery, Florida 2004

Grabich

Robinson

Engel

et al. 2016

Matern Child Health J

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Objective Hurricanes are powerful tropical storm systems with high winds which influence many health effects. Few studies have examined whether hurricane exposure is associated with preterm delivery. We aimed to estimate associations between maternal hurricane exposure and hazard of preterm delivery. Methods We used data on 342,942 singleton births from Florida Vital Statistics Records 2004-2005 to capture pregnancies at risk of delivery during the 2004 hurricane season. Maternal exposure to Hurricane Charley was assigned based on maximum wind speed in maternal county of residence. We estimated hazards of overall preterm delivery (<37 gestational weeks) and extremely preterm delivery (<32 gestational weeks) in Cox regression models, adjusting for maternal/pregnancy characteristics. To evaluate heterogeneity among racial/ethnic subgroups, we performed analyses stratified by race/ethnicity. Additional models investigated whether exposure to multiples hurricanes increased hazard relative to exposure to one hurricane. Results Exposure to wind speeds ≥39 mph from Hurricane Charley was associated with a 9 % (95 % CI 3, 16 %) increase in hazard of extremely preterm delivery, while exposure to wind speed ≥74 mph was associated with a 21 % (95 % CI 6, 38 %) increase. Associations appeared greater for Hispanic mothers compared to non-Hispanic white mothers. Hurricane exposure did not appear to be associated with hazard of overall preterm delivery. Exposure to multiple hurricanes did not appear more harmful than exposure to a single hurricane. Conclusions Hurricane exposure may increase hazard of extremely preterm delivery. As US coastal populations and hurricane severity increase, the associations between hurricane and preterm delivery should be further studied.

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Hurricane Charley Exposure and Hazard of Preterm Delivery, Florida 2004

Grabich

Robinson

Engel

et al. 2016

Matern Child Health J

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“…When location-specific capital is destroyed in a disaster, then this lowers the reasons to return. Groen and Polivka 2010 (see also Kim andOh 2014 andPaul 2005) find that the extent of housing damage is a good predictor of non-return as do Grote et al 2006 in their study of tsunami evacuees in Sri Lanka. Although it is perhaps natural to think of location-specific capital being primarily a feature of the original area of residence, once evacuees are established in a new place, capital can build up and this can inhibit return.…”

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Going Back: Radiation and Intentions to Return amongst Households Evacuated after the Great Tohoku Earthquake

Munro

Managi

2017

EconDisCliCha

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Based on a survey conducted with evacuees from the Fukushima radiation-affected region of Japan we examine intentions to return, eventually to the family homes. Many respondents do not intend to return, particularly those from tsunami-affected towns, but higher income households and those who evacuated to the same town are more likely to go back. Intentions are only weakly responsive to changes in ambient radiation levels and families with children are particularly unwilling to return to radiation affected areas, suggesting that the ongoing policy of active decontamination may have only a limited impact on eventual resettlement.

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“…However, these studies did not consider the ongoing pandemic and thus left gaps open for future studies. The role of the evacuation order and successful evacuation processes during a disaster was well established in evacuation research during hurricanes Katrina (2005) and Ivan (2004) (Kim and Oh 2014 ; Mesa-Arango et al 2013 ), as well as cyclone evacuation research in Bangladesh (Mallick et al 2011 ). In this study, we considered incorporating the coastal community’s preference for how to receive an evacuation order and then ranked the trustworthiness of order sources.…”

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Evacuation dilemmas of coastal households during cyclone Amphan and amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: a study of the Southwestern region of Bangladesh

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Cyclone Amphan battered the coastal communities in the southwestern part of Bangladesh in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. These coastal communities were experiencing such a situation for the first time and faced the dilemma of whether to stay at home and embrace the cyclone or be exposed to the COVID-19 virus in the cyclone shelters by evacuating. This article intends to explore individuals’ decisions regarding whether to evacuate in response to cyclone Amphan and in light of the risks of the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, this study investigated evacuation behaviors among the households and explored the impacts of COVID-19 during the evacuation procedures. We conducted household surveys to collect primary information and undertook 378 samples for interviews at a precision level of 0.05 in fourteen villages. Despite the utmost effort of the government, the results demonstrated that 96.6% of people in the coastal area received a cyclone evacuation order before the cyclone’s landfall, and only 42% of people followed the evacuation order. The majority of households chose to stay at home because of fear of COVID-19 exposure in the crowded shelters. Although half of the evacuees were housed in cyclone shelters, COVID-19 preventive measures were apparently not set in place. Thus, this study will assist in crafting future government policies to enhance disaster evacuation plans by providing insights from the pandemic that can inform disaster management plans in the Global South.

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The virtuous circle in disaster recovery: who returns and stays in town after disaster evacuation?

Cited by 17 publications

References 38 publications

Hurricane Charley Exposure and Hazard of Preterm Delivery, Florida 2004

Hurricane Charley Exposure and Hazard of Preterm Delivery, Florida 2004

Going Back: Radiation and Intentions to Return amongst Households Evacuated after the Great Tohoku Earthquake

Evacuation dilemmas of coastal households during cyclone Amphan and amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: a study of the Southwestern region of Bangladesh

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