Pub Date : 2026-01-17DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106019
Khabat Amani, Seiyed Mossa Hosseini
This study develops a response-adjusted flood risk assessment framework that incorporates physical accessibility to emergency services as a first approximation of community mitigation capacity. The framework is applied to three reaches of the Sefidroud River in northwestern Iran, a region frequently affected by severe flooding. Flood hazard was estimated using the HEC-RAS hydraulic model by integrating water depth and flow velocity across return periods from 2 to 1000 years, while vulnerability was assessed by overlaying land-use exposure with flood damage functions. A response factor—based on proximity to ten critical infrastructures including transport routes, emergency facilities, and healthcare services—was used to represent the accessible component of response capacity in a data-scarce setting. The resulting hydraulic simulations were validated qualitatively against available geomorphological evidence, as quantitative flood-extent data for these extreme return periods was not available. Incorporating this factor reduced the residual risk by approximately 7 % for the 100-year flood and 1 % for the 1000-year flood, indicating the limited moderating influence of local accessibility under extreme events. This work demonstrates how response-related indicators can be integrated into the conventional hazard–exposure–vulnerability paradigm, and outlines a pathway for expanding the framework to include broader social and institutional dimensions in future research.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-17DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106020
Alexander Fekete
Vulnerability in the context of disaster risk is widely analysed in terms of the horizontal distribution of people and social groups, as well as their features and capabilities. However, vertical distributions are not yet well-researched, as a systematic literature scoping review finds. Power relations and hierarchies are analysed in existing studies, as are other effects of vertical separation within groups, including disease transmission, inequalities within hierarchies, and the capacities of social capital. An additional re-analysis of field studies reveals additional important aspects that need to be considered in vertical vulnerability studies: people killed by floods in underground garages, evacuation problems for buildings with elevators, slopes and foothills, affected by flash floods, and mud flows, or accessibility to neighbourhoods being hampered by the debris of collapsed buildings in earthquakes. The study proposes a more thorough and systematic investigation of the vertical aspects of people's vulnerability, including their social and physical characteristics, as well as those of social groups. It outlines conceptual schematics, helping to identify this at the building, city and regional level. This will improve the conceptual quality of vulnerability and disaster risk research by explicitly emphasising the vertical dimensions of location and place-based context. It will also inform future urban planning efforts to enhance safety, health, and disaster risk management. It will also enable more effective evacuation and rescue of people from buildings and affected terrain in cities or rural areas.
{"title":"Vertical vulnerability and exposure of people in the context of disaster risk at the building, city and regional level","authors":"Alexander Fekete","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106020","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106020","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Vulnerability in the context of disaster risk is widely analysed in terms of the horizontal distribution of people and social groups, as well as their features and capabilities. However, vertical distributions are not yet well-researched, as a systematic literature scoping review finds. Power relations and hierarchies are analysed in existing studies, as are other effects of vertical separation within groups, including disease transmission, inequalities within hierarchies, and the capacities of social capital. An additional re-analysis of field studies reveals additional important aspects that need to be considered in vertical vulnerability studies: people killed by floods in underground garages, evacuation problems for buildings with elevators, slopes and foothills, affected by flash floods, and mud flows, or accessibility to neighbourhoods being hampered by the debris of collapsed buildings in earthquakes. The study proposes a more thorough and systematic investigation of the vertical aspects of people's vulnerability, including their social and physical characteristics, as well as those of social groups. It outlines conceptual schematics, helping to identify this at the building, city and regional level. This will improve the conceptual quality of vulnerability and disaster risk research by explicitly emphasising the vertical dimensions of location and place-based context. It will also inform future urban planning efforts to enhance safety, health, and disaster risk management. It will also enable more effective evacuation and rescue of people from buildings and affected terrain in cities or rural areas.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":13915,"journal":{"name":"International journal of disaster risk reduction","volume":"133 ","pages":"Article 106020"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146022788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-16DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106012
Luan Marca, Luis Fernando Tavares Vieira Braga, Marco Tulio Aniceto Franca, Augusto Mussi Alvim
This study provides one of the first causal assessments of drought-induced economic losses at the municipal level in Brazil. Using a balanced panel of 5538 municipalities from 2004 to 2021, we apply a staggered adoption difference-in-differences framework with municipality-clustered standard errors to estimate the medium- and long-term impacts on total GDP, formal employment, population density, and sectoral value added in agriculture, services, and industry. The results show that droughts generate persistent and economically significant contractions in municipal output and formal employment. For population density, the estimates indicate sustained post-treatment declines; however, event-study diagnostics reveal significant pre-treatment trends, suggesting that droughts amplify ongoing demographic dynamics rather. Losses are particularly pronounced in services and industry, indicating strong demand- and supply-driven spillovers beyond agriculture. Although the Northeast remains chronically exposed, the most severe contractions concentrate in municipalities in the South–Southeast, suggesting that regions with higher economic formalization and more complex production structures may be more vulnerable to recent drought shocks. These findings have direct implications for climate-adaptation strategies, highlighting the need for territorially targeted investments in water security, risk management, and economic resilience. More broadly, the results point to unequal and spatially concentrated burdens, underscoring the need for future research to examine the distributive impacts of droughts across municipalities with different socioeconomic profiles and adaptive capacities.
{"title":"The cost of drought: A causal study for Brazilian Municipalities","authors":"Luan Marca, Luis Fernando Tavares Vieira Braga, Marco Tulio Aniceto Franca, Augusto Mussi Alvim","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study provides one of the first causal assessments of drought-induced economic losses at the municipal level in Brazil. Using a balanced panel of 5538 municipalities from 2004 to 2021, we apply a staggered adoption difference-in-differences framework with municipality-clustered standard errors to estimate the medium- and long-term impacts on total GDP, formal employment, population density, and sectoral value added in agriculture, services, and industry. The results show that droughts generate persistent and economically significant contractions in municipal output and formal employment. For population density, the estimates indicate sustained post-treatment declines; however, event-study diagnostics reveal significant pre-treatment trends, suggesting that droughts amplify ongoing demographic dynamics rather. Losses are particularly pronounced in services and industry, indicating strong demand- and supply-driven spillovers beyond agriculture. Although the Northeast remains chronically exposed, the most severe contractions concentrate in municipalities in the South–Southeast, suggesting that regions with higher economic formalization and more complex production structures may be more vulnerable to recent drought shocks. These findings have direct implications for climate-adaptation strategies, highlighting the need for territorially targeted investments in water security, risk management, and economic resilience. More broadly, the results point to unequal and spatially concentrated burdens, underscoring the need for future research to examine the distributive impacts of droughts across municipalities with different socioeconomic profiles and adaptive capacities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":13915,"journal":{"name":"International journal of disaster risk reduction","volume":"133 ","pages":"Article 106012"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146022776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-14DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106008
Suzanne Vallance , Gradon Diprose , Bonny Hatami
It has been argued that too much of our disaster risk analysis is overly focussed on hazards at the expense of processes of social organisation, including gender. In advancing a less myopic research agenda, our qualitative research with women undertaking ‘disaster recovery’ work in Aotearoa New Zealand highlights important, but often overlooked, distinctions between inequality and inequity. This work also shows the importance of women's social reproduction work as a critical training ground for meta-competencies (empathy, multi-tasking and what we call ‘horizontal efficiency’) well-suited for the emerging reframing of ‘disasters’ as complex, cascading and compounding. This reframing suggests we shift attention towards systemic socio-political and ideological drivers of precarity and opportunity so as to re-theorise and challenge neat distinctions between prevention, preparedness, response and recovery (PPRR). An implication for practice is to learn from the way these women undertook their multifaceted social reproductive work which blended domestic, informal and formal spheres, and was often crisis-driven even in ‘peacetime’. We conclude with some thoughts on the ways the skills learned through social reproduction labour are more broadly appropriate for our ‘curvy, wonky world’.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-14DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106014
Mallee Smith , Thomas Birtchnell , Tillmann Böhme , Andreas Kopf
When a disaster strikes, citizens are expected to respond by following carefully prepared procedures implemented by emergency services and personnel that run in tandem, and at times in conflict with, their established social practices. This paper examines how disasters in Fiji impact community gender norms, which are rapidly unsettled during an emergency. Communities under duress are compelled by government interventions to interact with the standardised routines and behaviours requisite for a disaster setting. The role obdurate social practices play in disaster management is the focus of this paper. A novel reinterpretation of obduracy as resilience is made through an appraisal of the reflections and insights of NGO and charity workers interviewed in Suva, Fiji about community responses across the gendered social practices of comfort, convenience and cleanliness as these are negotiated during emergencies. We conclude by emphasising the need for emergency workers and policymakers alike to be abreast of cultural and community norms and to be attuned to the underlying social practices communities adhere to during disasters.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-13DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106018
Ahlke Kip , Lisa Gibbs , Robyn Molyneaux , David Forbes , Colin MacDougall , H Colin Gallagher , Richard Bryant
When recurrent hazards are exacerbated by climate change, the recovery process from one hazard is closely linked to the preparedness for subsequent events. This study investigated associations of long-term bushfire preparedness after previous bushfire exposure, focusing on the Protective Action Decision Model and considering mental health as an additional explanatory variable. Participants included a sample from the Beyond Bushfire study which was conducted 3–4 years after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires. Analyses were conducted on 1010 residents of Australian communities who were affected to varying degrees by the bushfires. Associated variables of increased bushfire preparedness were investigated using multivariable logistic regression analysis and included sociodemographic variables, risk perception of future bushfires, evaluation of personal choices during the bushfires, severity of exposure, community connectedness, exposure to subsequent hazards, and mental health. Risk perception was positively associated with increased preparedness, while sense of control over choices, comfort over choices made during the bushfires, and depression symptoms were associated with reduced odds of bushfire preparedness engagement. The findings suggest that personal accounts of previous bushfires may be more related to preparedness behaviours than objective disaster consequences. This finding points to the potential benefit of integrating mental health considerations into disaster preparedness and response policies. However, the model explained only 3.8 % of the differences in preparedness, highlighting the complexity of protective action prediction. More longitudinal research is necessary to improve our understanding of mental health influences.
{"title":"Factors associated with increased preparedness for future bushfires after exposure to a severe bushfire in Australia","authors":"Ahlke Kip , Lisa Gibbs , Robyn Molyneaux , David Forbes , Colin MacDougall , H Colin Gallagher , Richard Bryant","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106018","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106018","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>When recurrent hazards are exacerbated by climate change, the recovery process from one hazard is closely linked to the preparedness for subsequent events. This study investigated associations of long-term bushfire preparedness after previous bushfire exposure, focusing on the Protective Action Decision Model and considering mental health as an additional explanatory variable. Participants included a sample from the Beyond Bushfire study which was conducted 3–4 years after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires. Analyses were conducted on 1010 residents of Australian communities who were affected to varying degrees by the bushfires. Associated variables of increased bushfire preparedness were investigated using multivariable logistic regression analysis and included sociodemographic variables, risk perception of future bushfires, evaluation of personal choices during the bushfires, severity of exposure, community connectedness, exposure to subsequent hazards, and mental health. Risk perception was positively associated with increased preparedness, while sense of control over choices, comfort over choices made during the bushfires, and depression symptoms were associated with reduced odds of bushfire preparedness engagement. The findings suggest that personal accounts of previous bushfires may be more related to preparedness behaviours than objective disaster consequences. This finding points to the potential benefit of integrating mental health considerations into disaster preparedness and response policies. However, the model explained only 3.8 % of the differences in preparedness, highlighting the complexity of protective action prediction. More longitudinal research is necessary to improve our understanding of mental health influences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":13915,"journal":{"name":"International journal of disaster risk reduction","volume":"133 ","pages":"Article 106018"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145972808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-13DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106017
Catrin M. Edgeley
Efforts to understand, assess, and address diversifying recovery needs have growing relevance as wildfires continue to impact communities. However, little is known about social experiences navigating gaps in assistance funding and support or “unmet needs” in post-fire spaces, particularly for indirect impacts like smoke damage. Determining how affected residents access available information and make decisions related to unmet needs can aid the development of resources and programs that support rapid identification of, and response to, emergent or undocumented impacts during recovery processes. This study explores household experiences with smoke damage as an unmet need during recovery following the 2021 Marshall Fire in Boulder County, Colorado, USA. Semi-structured interviews with residents and professionals who dealt with smoke damage revealed a wide spectrum of impacts. Decisions to act on smoke damage were influenced by risk perceptions and personal capacity to undertake self-guided recovery in the absence of a formalized process for navigating remediation. These experiences underscored a distinct absence of scientific and management expertise, legal protections or standards, and assistance related to smoke damage identification and remediation, catalyzing distrust in officials and ambiguity regarding whether smoke damaged homes could become safe again. Together, these conditions created cascading uncertainties for residents with smoke damaged homes that motivated long-term health concerns. Unmet needs after wildfire appeared to emerge because of misconceptions about impact severity, limited professional capacity, and adherence to rigid recovery structures that restrict professionals’ ability to identify and incorporate non-traditional impacts into existing processes. Findings informed suggestions for improving smoke damage recovery processes, inviting consideration of policy and more inclusive assistance to support recovery from indirect wildfire impacts.
{"title":"Understanding unmet needs during community wildfire recovery: A case study of smoke damage impacts after the 2021 Marshall Fire","authors":"Catrin M. Edgeley","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106017","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Efforts to understand, assess, and address diversifying recovery needs have growing relevance as wildfires continue to impact communities. However, little is known about social experiences navigating gaps in assistance funding and support or “unmet needs” in post-fire spaces, particularly for indirect impacts like smoke damage. Determining how affected residents access available information and make decisions related to unmet needs can aid the development of resources and programs that support rapid identification of, and response to, emergent or undocumented impacts during recovery processes. This study explores household experiences with smoke damage as an unmet need during recovery following the 2021 Marshall Fire in Boulder County, Colorado, USA. Semi-structured interviews with residents and professionals who dealt with smoke damage revealed a wide spectrum of impacts. Decisions to act on smoke damage were influenced by risk perceptions and personal capacity to undertake self-guided recovery in the absence of a formalized process for navigating remediation. These experiences underscored a distinct absence of scientific and management expertise, legal protections or standards, and assistance related to smoke damage identification and remediation, catalyzing distrust in officials and ambiguity regarding whether smoke damaged homes could become safe again. Together, these conditions created cascading uncertainties for residents with smoke damaged homes that motivated long-term health concerns. Unmet needs after wildfire appeared to emerge because of misconceptions about impact severity, limited professional capacity, and adherence to rigid recovery structures that restrict professionals’ ability to identify and incorporate non-traditional impacts into existing processes. Findings informed suggestions for improving smoke damage recovery processes, inviting consideration of policy and more inclusive assistance to support recovery from indirect wildfire impacts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":13915,"journal":{"name":"International journal of disaster risk reduction","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 106017"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146075677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-12DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106009
Mary Lai O. Salvaña , Harold Jay M. Bolingot , Gregory L. Tangonan
Critical infrastructure networks, such as transportation, power grids, and communication systems, exhibit complex interdependencies that can lead to cascading failures with catastrophic consequences. These cascading disasters often originate from failures at critical points in the network, where single-node disruptions can propagate rapidly due to structural dependencies and high-impact linkages. Such vulnerabilities are exacerbated in systems that have been highly optimized for efficiency or have self-organized into fragile configurations over time. The air transportation system in the United States, built on a hub-and-spoke model, exemplifies this type of critical infrastructure. Its reliance on a limited number of high-throughput hubs means that even localized disruptions — particularly those triggered by increasingly frequent and extreme weather events — can initiate cascades with nationwide impacts. We introduce a novel application of the theory of Self-Organized Criticality (SOC) to model and analyze cascading failures in such networks. Through a detailed case study of U.S. airline operations, we show how the SOC model exhibits the power-law distribution of disruptions and the long-tail risk of systemic failures, reflecting the real-world interplay between structural fragility and external shocks. Our approach enables quantitative assessment of network vulnerability, identification of critical nodes, and evaluation of proactive intervention strategies for disaster risk reduction. The results demonstrate that the SOC model successfully replicates the observed statistical patterns of disruption sizes — characterized by frequent small events and rare but severe cascading failures — offering a powerful systems-level framework for infrastructure resilience planning and emergency management. The model provides practitioners with actionable insights for anticipating and mitigating systemic risks in complex, interdependent systems.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-12DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.105997
Yanran Ye , Kenji Takeuchi
A significant portion of the global population resides in coastal areas and faces increasing flood risks. This study applies a hedonic pricing model to examine how flood risk affects residential property prices in Japan, using both plan-scale and maximum-scale flood maps. Our analysis indicates that apartments located within plan-scale flood zones are priced 8.5% lower than comparable units outside these zones, while under the maximum-scale flood scenario, prices decline by about 5.8%. Regional heterogeneity is pronounced, with flood risk effect being markedly stronger in metropolitan areas: properties within plan-scale flood zones experience a price reduction of around 25%, and those within maximum-scale zones see a nearly 20% decrease. Height-based analysis further reveals that the housing market incorporates interactions between expected flood depths and floor levels when valuing properties. In addition, the results suggest that Japan’s 2020 mandatory flood disclosure policy has likely strengthened the extent to which potential flood damage is reflected in property prices. These findings highlight the importance of integrating flood risk into climate adaptation planning, particularly in densely populated metropolitan regions.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-12DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106016
Emmanuel M. Preña, Cherrylyn P. Labayo
This study examines the vulnerability and adaptive responses of aging rice farmers in Philippine agrarian reform communities (ARCs) to intensifying climate extremes, including prolonged heat, drought, heavy rainfall, and tropical cyclones. Building on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change vulnerability framework and extending the Protection Motivation Theory through the Risk, Coping, and Social Appraisal model, this study integrates structural, cognitive, and social dimensions of climate adaptation. Qualitative data were collected through in-depth interviews with older farmers, purposively sampled across three ARCs in Castilla, Sorsogon, Philippines, complemented by focus group discussions and key informant interviews. Findings reveal a convergence of high exposure, elevated sensitivity, and uneven adaptive capacity, manifested in chronic heat-related physical strain, disrupted farming calendars due to unpredictable rainfall, and reliance on informal social networks as primary coping mechanisms amid limited institutional support. Farmers demonstrated strong risk appraisal, acknowledging the immediacy and severity of climate threats, yet adaptive action was constrained by low coping efficacy, limited financial and technological resources, and age-related physical limitations. Social appraisal emerged as a critical determinant of resilience, with cohesive farmer organizations and institutional support enabling effective collective adaptation, while weak social cohesion and limited institutional reach exacerbated vulnerability. Policy implications emphasize strengthening coping and social appraisal through targeted investments in climate-resilient infrastructure, tailored extension services for older farmers, community-based adaptation models, and social protection systems such as pensions, crop insurance, and emergency assistance. By addressing structural constraints while leveraging older farmers’ experiential knowledge, these interventions can enhance rural climate resilience and food security.
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