Mother Nature’s Fury: Antagonist Metaphors for Natural Disasters Increase Forecasts of Their Severity and Encourage Evacuation

Evacuation from Natural Disasters: A Systematic Review of the Literature.

Research on evacuation from natural disasters has been published across the peer-reviewed literature among several disparate disciplinary outlets and has suggested a wide variety of predictors of evacuation behavior. We conducted a systematic review to summarize and evaluate the current literature on demographic, storm-related, and psychosocial correlates of natural disaster evacuation behavior...

Detritus: Mother Natures Rice Cake

While today’s popular opinion appears to simply discount the importance of detritus as “just plain mud,” scientific evidence indicates that the ancient cultures may have been correct concerning the importance of detritus. Detritus is important on a global scale as well as locally; from its role in the world carbon cycle to supplying part of the nutritional requirements of a marsh periwinkle (St...

Bottlenecks and Congestion in Evacuation Scenarios: A Microscopic Evacuation Simulation for Large-Scale Disasters

Multi Agent Simulation has increasingly been used for transportation simulation in recent years. With current techniques, it is possible to simulate systems consisting of several million agents. Such Multi Agent Simulations have been applied to transportation simulation for whole cities and even large regions. In this paper we demonstrate how to adapt an existing multi agent transportation simu...

poverty and natural disasters

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Natural Disasters