NH009
Geohazards and Society: Striving Towards Improved Natural Hazard Resilience for All

Session ID#: 159054

Session Description:
Geological hazards (or geohazards) are the product of natural, active geologic processes which may be dangerous to people or infrastructure (e.g volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods).

Moreover, geohazards such as climate change, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic activity, and tsunamis do not impact communities equally. Socio-economic factors often impact a community’s ability to prepare and respond to natural hazards at a local, state, federal, and international level. The impact of natural hazards on communities is influenced by the interaction of exposure, vulnerability, and capacity, as well as socio-economic barriers. These factors can increase exposure and vulnerability while limiting capacity building, creating an inequitable ability to prepare, respond, and recover from the impacts of natural hazards between communities.  Effectively,addressing these inequities requires cooperation between all stakeholders in natural hazard mitigation and preparedness including hazard scientists, social scientists, emergency managers, government, and most importantly the communities themselves. 

This multidisciplinary session invites all stakeholders in natural hazards to engage and address issues of equity in hazard management. Topics can include challenges and capacities of vulnerable groups in disaster readiness, factors that impact community response to natural hazards, case studies for improving community preparedness and natural disaster response, and preparing communities for climate change, amongst others. 

This session is organized by the American Geophysics Union (AGU), Hazards Equity Working Group (HEWG).

Index Terms:

4306 Multihazards [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4332 Disaster resilience [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4338 Disaster policy [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4343 Preparedness and planning [NATURAL HAZARDS]


Primary Convener:  Elizabeth A Vanacore, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Dept Of Geology, Puerto Rico Seismic Network, Mayaguez, PR, United States
Conveners:  Felix Kwabena Donkor, University of Education-Winneba, Department of Geography Education, Winneba, Ghana, Wendy Bohon, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Seattle, WA, United States and Nicole D Jackson, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Tiegan E Hobbs, Natural Resources Canada, NRCan-RNCan, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 
Operational Earthquake Forecasting in Japan: Local Government Response to Warnings and Advisories for the Nankai Region (1043445)
James Dennis Goltz, Natural Hazards Center, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, United States, Katsuya Yamori, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Disaster Reduction Systems, Kyoto, Japan, Hideyuki Shiroshita, Kansai University, Societal Safety Sciences, Osaka, Japan, Takashi Sugiyama, The University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, Tokyo, Japan and Yu Matsubara, Kyoto University, Disaster Reduction Systems, Kyoto, Japan
 
Developing Fragility Curves Towards Assessing Flood Risk in Ohkay Owingeh (1062675)
Anistasia Baca, Albuquerque, NM, UNITED STATES, Ria Mukerji, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Geography, Albuquerque, United States, Lauren Vigil, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Business and Native American Studies, Albuquerque, United States, Lindsey Rotche, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Geography, Albuquerue, United States, Su Zhang, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Earth Data Analysis Center, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Carolyn Hushman, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, United States, Mark C Stone, University of New Mexico, Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Fernando Moreu, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Civil Construction and Environmental Engineering, Albuquerue, United States and Yolanda Lin, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Geography and Environmental Studies, Albuquerque, NM, United States
 
Flipping the Outreach and Engagement Script: Centering Community Voices in Outreach Events to Humanize Science and the Tsunami Warning Processes (1070515)
Sophia Tsang1,2, Bill Fry2, Kasper van Wijk3, Sam Taylor-Offord2, Jennifer Dawn Eccles4, Emily Lane5 and Tim McDougall2, (1)University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, (2)GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (3)University of Auckland, Department of Physics, Auckland, New Zealand, (4)The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, (5)NIWA National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Christchurch, New Zealand
 
Socioeconomic Disparities in Sea Level Rise Impacts on Wastewater Treatment Plants (1091945)
David Robinson, Air Force Institute of Technology, Bellbrook, OH, United States and Christopher Chini, Air Force Institute of Technology, Systems Engineering and Management, Bellbrook, OH, United States
 
Alaska’s Equity-focused Approach to Addressing Community-specific Tsunami Hazards (1093906)
Lea Gardine1, Elena Suleimani1, Dmitry Nicolsky2, Beth Grassi3, Michael Edwin West4, Natalia A Ruppert4 and Brad Lobland5, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (4)Univ Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Earthquake Center, Fairbanks, United States
 
A Life Cycle Assessment of Bio-mediated Earthquake Hazard Mitigation to Improve Infrastructure Resiliency (1122199)
Aisha Faruqi, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Caitlyn A Hall, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Alissa Kendall, University of California, Davis, Davis, United States
 
Household Level Adaptation Response to Extreme Flood Events (1145549)
Zahrun Zannat1, Sonia Binte Murshed2 and M. Shah Alam Khan1, (1)Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Water Resource Development, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (2)Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
 
Assessment of Vulnerability to Wildfire-induced PM2.5 in the U.S. Using Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System (1146855)
Jihoon Jung, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Joseph L Wilkins, Howard University, Washington, DC, United States, Claire Schollaert, Boston University School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health, Boston, MA, United States and Miyuki Hino, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of City and Regional Planning; Environment, Ecology, and Energy Program, Chapel Hill, United States
 
Center for Collective Impact in Earthquake Science (C-CIES): Building Inclusive Excellence, Diversity, Equity, and Community into Earthquake Science (1151350)
Aaron A Velasco1, Marianne S. Karplus2, Jeffrey Weidner3, Susan L Bilek4, Divya Chandrsekhar5, John Ebel6, Tiegan E Hobbs7, Jose Miguel Hurtado Jr2, Steven C Jaume8, Eric Jones9, Alan L Kafka10, Anne-Marie Nunez11, Kristine L Pankow12, Zhigang Peng13, Alexandros Savvaidis14, Elizabeth A Vanacore15, Conevery Bolton Valencius16 and Michael Brudzinski17, (1)University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at El Paso, Geological Sciences, El Paso, TX, United States, (3)University of Texas at El Paso, Civil Engineering, El Paso, United States, (4)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, United States, (5)University of Utah, Department of City & Metropolitan Planning, Salt Lake City, United States, (6)Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States, (7)Natural Resources Canada, NRCan-RNCan, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (8)College Charleston, Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, Charleston, SC, United States, (9)UT Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, El Paso campus, El Paso, United States, (10)Boston College's Weston Observatory, Weston, MA, United States, (11)Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, (12)University of Utah, Seismograph Stations, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (13)Georgia Institute of Technology, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States, (14)University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, United States, (15)University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, United States, (16)Boston College, History Department, Chestnut Hill, United States, (17)Miami University, Oxford, United States
 
Developing a Resilient Airport through Tsunami Ready Program in Ngurah Rai Bali (1154807)
Suci Anugrah, Tatok Yatimantoro, Daryono Daryono, Hidayanti Hidayanti and Septa Anggraini, Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics, Jakarta, Indonesia
 
Gender Considerations in Flood Management: A Case Study in Bangladesh (1157869)
Fabiha Rahman, Sonia Binte Murshed, Ahmed Hossain, Rashel Mahmud and . Shampa, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
 
Assessment of Earthquake Hazard and Risk for Tofino, British Columbia (1159241)
Mark Novakovic1, Jovana Borozan2, Karen Assatourians2, Emrah Yenier3, Gail Marie Atkinson4, Tuna Onur5 and Keith Orchiston6, (1)Nanometrics Inc, Kanata, ON, Canada, (2)Nanometrics Inc., Ottawa, ON, Canada, (3)Nanometrics Inc, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (4)University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, (5)Onur Seemann Consulting, Inc., Victoria, BC, Canada, (6)District of Tofino, Tofino, BC, Canada
 
Landslide Susceptibility Mapping using Multi-Criteria Analysis and Machine Learning Model (1159367)
Lasyamayee L Sahoo, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India and Subashisa Dutta, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Civil Engineering, Guwahati, India
 
A Participatory Approach to Environmental Monitoring and Adaptive Capacity Building in Coastal Bend Communities in Texas (1169186)
Michelle Hummel1, Karabi Bezboruah1, Oswald Jenewein1, Yonghe Liu1, Kathryn Masten2 and Amruta Sakalker1, (1)University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, (2)Maritimatix, Vienna, MD, United States
 
Quantifying subsidence damage risk to infrastructures in 25 most populous U.S. cities from the space (1175017)
Guang Zhai1, Leonard Ohenhen2, Khosro Ghobadi-Far1, Grace Carlson1, Sonam Futi Sherpa1, Jui-Chi Lee1, Mohammad Khorrami1, Sonia Zehsaz1, Susanna Werth1 and Manoochehr Shirzaei1, (1)Virginia Tech, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States, (2)Virginia Tech, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, VA, United States
 
Development Landslide Susceptibilty Mapping with Multivariance Statistical method for Landslide Early Warning, Study Case Kepahiang Bengkulu, Indonesia. (1177269)
Eli Putriani1, Yih-Min Wu2, Chi-Wen Chen Sr1, Arif Ismul Hadi Sr3 and Darmawan Ikhlas Fadli Jr4, (1)Department of Geoscience, National Taiwan University, Department of Geoscience, Taipei, Taiwan, (2)NTU National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, (3)University of Bengkulu, Department of Physics, Bengkulu, Indonesia, (4)University of Bengkulu, Department of Geophysics, Bengkulu, Indonesia
 
A first level vulnerability assessment of buildings on a flood-risk area (1182595)
Giovanna Capparelli1, Pasquale Versace2, Francesco Liguori Sr3 and Antonio Madeo Sr3, (1)University of Calabria, Calabria, Italy, (2)University of Calabria, Dimes, Rende, Italy, (3)University of Calabria, DIMES, Calabria, Italy
 
Increasing Alaskan geohazard resilience through educator collaborations, high quality teaching resources, and working with rural Native students (1183737)
Beth A Pratt-Sitaula, Central Washington University, Geological Sciences, Ellensburg, United States, Jennifer Pickering, Alaska Pacific University, Earth Science Department, Anchorage, United States; Anchorage School District, Anchorage, United States, Elizabeth Spangler, Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program, Anchorage, United States, Robert Carleton Witter, Alaskan geocience, Anchorage, United States, Robert M DeGroot, United States Geological Survey - Earthquake Science Center, ShakeAlert Project, Pasadena, CA, United States, Michael Coe, Cedar Lake Research Group, Portland, OR, United States, Bonnie Magura, Portland Public Schools, Portland, United States and Robert F Butler, University of Portland, Environmental Studies, Portland, OR, United States
 
Iron Sulfides and Concrete: How a Common Mineral Can Be a Geohazard for Construction and Infrastructure (1190710)
Kathryn J Murdock, Exponent, Inc., Civil Engineering, Natick, United States
 
Quantifying the Impact of Groundwater Pollution on the Mortality Rate in the Central Valley of California (1192857)
Isabel Lopez, William Paterson University of New Jersey, New Jersey, United States, Jenny Suckale, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States and Douglas Leonard, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
 
A Remote Sensing Approach to Bridging the Gaps in FEMA Flood Risk Maps (1193948)
Afolarin Lawal1, Beth Tellman1, Jonathan M Frame2, Nicholas Leach1, Tanya Nair1, Tyler Anderson1 and Veda Sunkara1, (1)Cloud to Street, New York, NY, United States, (2)California State University Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, United States
 
Identifying Community Risk Thresholds to Encourage Equitable Communication of Geohazards in Five Communities (1194459)
Kathryn Lambrecht, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Benjamin Hatchett, Desert Research Institute, Reno, United States, Lynda Olman, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, United States, Meghan Collins, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Zach Tolby, National Weather Service Reno, Reno, United States, Anne Heggli, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, United States and Inika Wadhwa, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States
 
Community-based Frameworks for Disaster Resilience: A Case Study in Puerto Rico (1195803)
Luis Rodriguez1, Michael Fernánez-Frey2, Daniela Markazi3, Yiyang Chen4, Roger Leyba-Mercado5, Aisha Syed4, Morgan Toro Marrero5, Julieta Viñas-Vilá5, Jesann González Cruz4, Tinn-Shuan Uen6, Yining Liu4, Gerson Beauchamp5, Luis R Perez Alegria5, Fernando Pantoja-Agreda7, Dan Steward4, Alessandro Campos8 and Yanfeng Ouyang4, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)Caras con Causa, Cataño, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Informatics, Urbana, United States, (4)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States, (5)University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez, United States, (6)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, United States, (7)University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR, United States, (8)Federal University of Lavras, Lavras, Brazil
 
Transformative Resilience: Transformation, Resilience, and the Capacity of Rural Coastal Communities in Facing Disasters in Two Indonesian Villages (1042978)
Fikri Zul Fahmi, Saghita Desiyana Maurischa and Djoko Santoso Abi Suroso, Bandung Institute of Technology, Regional and Rural Planning Research Group, Bandung, Indonesia
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