@article{ref1,
title="Evolution of vulnerability of communities facing repeated hazards",
journal="PLoS one",
year="2017",
author="Reilly, Allison C. and Guikema, Seth D. and Zhu, Laiyin and Igusa, Takeru",
volume="12",
number="9",
pages="e0182719-e0182719",
abstract="The decisions that individuals make when recovering from and adapting to repeated hazards affect a region's vulnerability in future hazards. As such, community vulnerability is not a static property but rather a dynamic property dependent on behavioral responses to repeated hazards and damage. This paper is the first of its kind to build a framework that addresses the complex interactions between repeated hazards, regional damage, mitigation decisions, and community vulnerability. The framework enables researchers and regional planners to visualize and quantify how a community could evolve over time in response to repeated hazards under various behavioral scenarios. An illustrative example using parcel-level data from Anne Arundel County, Maryland-a county that experiences fairly frequent hurricanes-is presented to illustrate the methodology and to demonstrate how the interplay between individual choices and regional vulnerability is affected by the region's hurricane experience.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1932-6203",
doi="10.1371/journal.pone.0182719",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182719"
}