Disaster Recovery

Puerto Rico: Hurricane’s Irma and Maria CDBG-DR Impact Assessment and Recovery Action Plan

Florida: Hurricane’s Hermine and Matthew CDBG-DR Impact Assessment and Recovery Action Plan, Hurricane Irma CDBG-DR Impact Assessment and Recovery Action Plan

South Carolina: 2015 Severe Storms and Flooding CDBG-DR Impact Assessment and Recovery Action Plan, Hurricane Matthew CDBG-DR Impact Assessment and Recovery Action Plan

Texas:  Hurricane Harvey Equitable Recovery, Hurricane Harvey CDBG-DR Impact Assessment and Recovery Action Plan

West Virginia: Severe Storms and Flooding CDBG-DR Impact Assessment and Recovery Action Plan

Louisiana: Severe Storms and Flooding CDBG-DR Impact Assessment and Recovery Action Plan

 Exposed: Vulnerability and Climate Change in the US Southeast, Oxfam America

The Public Health Vulnerability Mapping System, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention & the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

 NOAA Digital Coast

 Social Vulnerability Index-Explorer, US Army Corps of Engineers

Climate-Sensitive Hazards in Florida, HVRI for the Florida Department of Health

International Applications of SoVI:

 SoVI Norway: Holand,I. , P. Lujala, and J. K. Rød, 2010. "Social vulnerability assessment of Norway: A quantitative approach," Norwegian Journal of Geography 65 (1):1-17.

 SoVI China: Chen, W., S. L. Cutter, C. T. Emrich, and P. Shi, 2013. "Measuring social vulnerability to natural hazards in the Yangtze River Delta region, China," International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 4 (4):169-181.

 SoVI Portugal: Guillard-Goncalves, C., S. L. Cutter, C. T. Emrich, and J. L. Zezere, 2014. "Application of Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI) and delineation of natural risk zones in Greater Lisbon, Portugal," Journal of Risk Research 18 (5):651-674.

 SoVI Brazil: Hummell, B. M., S. L. Cutter, and C. T. Emrich, 2016. "Social vulnerability to natural hazards in Brazil," Internation Journal of Disaster Risk Science 7 (2):111-122.

State of Arkansas All-Hazards Mitigation Plan, 2013

 State of Colorado Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan, 2013

Enhanced State Hazard Mitigation Plan: State of Florida, 2018

State of Georgia Hazard Mitigation Strategy, 2014

Illinois Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan, 2013

 Kansas Hazard Mitigation Plan, 2013

State of Mississippi Hazard Mitigation Plan, 2013

Missouri State Hazard Mitigation Plan, 2013

New Mexico State Hazard Mitigation Plan, 2013

State of North Dakota Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan, 2013

Oregon Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan, 2015

South Carolina Hazard Mitigation Plan, 2013

State of South Dakota Hazard Mitigation Plan, 2014

State of Tennessee Hazard Mitigation Plan, 2013

Arapahoe County, CO; Beaufort County, SC; Calaveras County, CA; Dillon County, SC; Howard County, MO; La Plata County, CO; Moniteau County, MO; Pitkin County, CO; Richmond County, GA

Central Kansas, KS; Central Midlands Council of Governments, SC; Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte Ctys, KS; Lowcountry Council of Governments, SC; Northeast Kansas, KS; Northeastern Virginia, VA; South Kansas, KS; Southeast Kansas, KS

City of Galveston, TX

 Social Vulnerability Index SoVI® - Methodology and Limitations

 Social Vulnerability Index and obesity: An empirical study in the US

 Patient‑ and area‑level predictors of prostate cancer among South Carolina veterans: a spatial analysis

 Measuring social equity in flood recovery funding

 Social Vulnerability and Procedural Equity: Exploring the Distribution of Disaster Aid Across Counties in the United States

 Comparing index-based vulnerability assessments in the Mississippi Delta: Implications of contrasting theories, indicators, and aggregation methodologies

 How Valid Are Social Vulnerability Models?

 SoVI and Climate Change: Planning for North Carolina’s Future: 2010 Climate Change Adaptation Workshop.

NBC News, October 23, 2017.  Receding Waters in Houston Reveal Families' Divergent Paths to Recovery

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Ashley, W. S., 2007. "Spatial and temporal analysis of tornado fatalities in the United States: 1880-2005," Weather And Forecasting 22 (6):1214-1228.

Bakker, K., 2005. "Katrina: The public transcript of 'disaster'," (guest editorial) Environment And Planning D 23 (6):795-802.

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Fekete, A., 2009. “Validation of a social vulnerability index in context to river-floods in Germany,” Natural Hazards Earth Systems Science 9:393-403.

Fielding, J. and K. Buckingham, 2005. “Environmental inequality and flood hazard,” Local Environment 10(4):379-395.

Fielding, J., 2007. "Environmental injustice or just the lie of the land: an investigation of the socio-economic class of those at risk from flooding in England and Wales," Sociological Research Online 12 (4).

Finch, C., C. T. Emrich, and S. L. Cutter, 2010. “Disaster disparities and differential recovery in New Orleans,” Population and Environment 31(4):179-202.

Flint, C. G., and A. E. Luloff, 2005. "Natural resource-based communities, risk, and disaster: An intersection of theories," Society & Natural Resources 18 (5):399-412.

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Gardoni, P. and C. Murphy, 2010. “Gauging the societal impacts of natural disasters using a capability approach,” Disasters 34(3):619-636.

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Greiving, S., M. Fleischauer, and J. Luckenkotter, 2006. “A Methodology for an integrated risk assessment of spatially relevant hazards,” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 49(1):1-19.

Harlan, S. L., A. J. Brazel, L. Prashad, W. L. Stefanov, and L. Larsen, 2006. "Neighborhood microclimates and vulnerability to heat stress," Social Science & Medicine 63 (11):2847-2863.

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Li, F. Y., J. Bi, J. Huang, C. S. Qu, J. Yang, Q. M. Bu, 2010. “Mapping human vulnerability to chemical accidents in the vicinity of chemical industry parks,” Journal of Hazardous Materials 179(1):500-506.

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