Natural disasters can cause severe damage to infrastructure, the economy, and human lives. A better understanding of the vulnerability of individual households, critical infrastructure, and a community can be vital to in both short-term disaster response and long-term resilience…
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The objective of this dissertation is to examine the ways in which households recover from and adapt to changing conditions as a result of natural hazards. I use Indonesia as a case study. The dissertation is divided into four chapters. In the first chapter, I give an overview o…
Tornadoes are an extremely devastating natural hazard with significant consequences but are not considered in current structural design codes. This is due to their low probability of occurrence making them what has been termed a low-occurrence high-consequence event. This thesis…