{"title":"Development of the short and super-short version of the Emergency Reaction Questionnaire","authors":"Andras N. Zsido , Pedro Dias , Carlos M. Coelho","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105505","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105505","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Emergencies are sudden, life-threatening situations that challenge individuals' ability to respond effectively. The Emergency Reaction Questionnaire (ERQ) is a measure widely used to assess individual differences in emergency behavior; however, its 30-item length may limit its utility in certain contexts. Consequently, in this study, we aimed to develop two abbreviated versions of the ERQ: a short form retaining the original factor structure, and a super-short form that still captures the two core dimensions of readiness and helplessness. We used Item Response Theory to evaluate the psychometric properties of ERQ items and reduce the length of the scale on a large community sample (N = 1448). We assessed external validity on a subsample of participants (N = 415). Our results showed that the 16-item short and 6-item super-short forms effectively preserved the psychometric robustness of the original ERQ. Both versions successfully differentiated participants, with readiness scales exhibiting a normal distribution and helplessness scales clustering at the extremes. External validity analyses confirmed positive associations between readiness scores and sensation seeking, while helplessness scores were positively correlated with anxiety and trauma sensitivity. These findings align with theoretical frameworks of defensive behavior and support the utility of the ERQ short forms for assessing adaptive and maladaptive responses to emergencies. The ERQ short forms provide versatile tools for a variety of settings, including large-scale screening, disaster preparedness education, and resilience training programs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":13915,"journal":{"name":"International journal of disaster risk reduction","volume":"123 ","pages":"Article 105505"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143874589","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}
John Aloysius Zinda , Bryce Vitulli , Shorna Allred , David Kay , Sharon Tennyson , Kristen Hychka , Jessica Kuonen , Jesenia Laureano , Alex Pennington , Keith Tidball
{"title":"Who purchases flood insurance, and why? Evidence from the Hudson valley","authors":"John Aloysius Zinda , Bryce Vitulli , Shorna Allred , David Kay , Sharon Tennyson , Kristen Hychka , Jessica Kuonen , Jesenia Laureano , Alex Pennington , Keith Tidball","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105472","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105472","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the United States, increasing the number of homeowners insured through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is a key goal in federal and state efforts to manage flooding impacts. This study draws on a survey of households in the Hudson valley of New York State to examine which households insure and how different homeowners view insurance, examining patterns across homeownership status as well as location inside or outside federally designated Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHAs). Flood insurance take-up was highest among mortgage-holding homeowners living in SFHAs, who are required to purchase flood insurance. Majorities of both insured and uninsured homeowners expressed low confidence that they could pay for flood damage on their own and low confidence that the NFIP would cover costs of flooding. Many, including over one-fifth of those living in high-risk areas, see their risk of flooding as low enough to merit not insuring. Understanding flood insurance behavior and encouraging preparedness requires addressing how people in varied situations evaluate cost, risk perception, and trust in institutions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":13915,"journal":{"name":"International journal of disaster risk reduction","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 105472"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143902297","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}
Chi Vuong Tai , Dongkyun Kim , Rico Kronenberg , Ivan Vorobevskii , Thanh Thi Luong
{"title":"Beneath the surface: Exploring relationship between pluvial floods and income disparities for residential basements in Seoul, South Korea","authors":"Chi Vuong Tai , Dongkyun Kim , Rico Kronenberg , Ivan Vorobevskii , Thanh Thi Luong","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105501","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105501","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the growing interest in flood risk assessment in recent years, the relationship between flood vulnerability and income disparity remains underexplored, especially in the dimension of residential basements. To address this research gap, we first estimated annual income at building floor level using housing sale prices and associated conversion indices. The reverse geocoding technique was subsequently adopted to assign income data of residential basements to associated building footprints for further analysis. This study assessed the impacts of flood events between 2010 and 2022 on different income groups of basement residents in Seoul, a city characterized by global financial standing and high population density, but also high vulnerability to floods. Our findings reveal that (1) flood events disproportionately impact areas with lower housing sale prices, which are also home to a large proportion of lower-income residents; (2) 85.3 % of affected basement households belong to the below-middle-income group, with even higher proportions observed in lower-income districts ranked 10th or below; (3) four districts Gangseo, Guro, Songpa, and Gangnam exhibit a pattern in which higher-income households are generally less affected by flooding; and (4) in some sub-districts, below-middle-income basements are located in areas characterized by both high flood exposure and socio-economic vulnerability. These results suggest two key policy implications, including (1) below-middle-income basement residents, particularly those in highly vulnerable sub-districts, should be prioritized in flood mitigation strategies; and (2) flood risk information should be more effectively integrated into the housing market to better inform both prospective buyers and policymakers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":13915,"journal":{"name":"International journal of disaster risk reduction","volume":"123 ","pages":"Article 105501"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143847711","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}
{"title":"Stress testing hospitals using service measures and resilience indicators","authors":"Rossella Marmo , Bryan T. Adey , Giulia Celentano","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105492","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105492","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Within healthcare systems, hospitals provide essential acute and emergency care to save lives and mitigate the impacts of potentially disruptive events on communities. To ensure that hospitals are ready to deal with such events, their resilience must be estimated. Although frameworks to do this exist, they mostly consist of checklists for assessing hospital preparedness which leave it to the decision-makers to determine the effects of resilience-enhancing interventions on service provision and to prioritise interventions accordingly. To help bridge this gap, this paper presents a framework to assess overall hospital resilience using service measures and resilience indicators. As intended to be used to assess resilience to hypothetical scenarios of interest, it is referred to as a stress testing framework. The framework uses five service measures and twenty indicators to estimate and quantify resilience. The values of the resilience indicators and the values of the service measures are explicitly connected, and the resilience assessment is done by comparing the values of service measures at the current operational condition against the values at the baseline condition, i.e., the reference condition at which the hospital is supposed to work. The framework is explained using a fictive example based on a tertiary hospital in Beirut, Lebanon. The framework provides a clear structured high-level overview of the resilience of hospitals and facilitates decision-making as to which actions should be taken to improve resilience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":13915,"journal":{"name":"International journal of disaster risk reduction","volume":"123 ","pages":"Article 105492"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143847712","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}
{"title":"Indonesia Disaster Education Repository House (IN-DEPTH) as a knowledge management system platform for disaster education","authors":"Nasliati , Mizan Bustanul Fuady Bisri , Daisuke Sasaki , Rina Suryani Oktari","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105502","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105502","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Effective knowledge management (KM) is crucial for disaster risk reduction, and is especially effective with the aid of technology. This study explores the development of a disaster education repository to improve access to disaster-related information for stakeholders and school communities. Using a Design Thinking approach, the research involved a needs assessment through online surveys from 40 respondents across seven Indonesian provinces. Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) further informed the design. An empathy map and Point of View (POV) methods were used to analyze user characteristics and requirements. A prototype of the Indonesian Disaster Education Repository House (IN-DEPTH) was developed and tested through User Experience Questionnaires (UEQs) to assess usability. Initial tests with a small group, including government and NGO representatives, as well as a teacher, provided valuable insights into the system's design and functionality. This study represents an early-stage exploration of a disaster education KM system, providing valuable insights into design and functionality. The findings suggest that a centralized disaster education repository has the potential to significantly enhance the accessibility and usability of critical disaster-related information. This could lead to better-informed decision-making among stakeholders, more effective disaster risk reduction strategies, and improved disaster preparedness within school communities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":13915,"journal":{"name":"International journal of disaster risk reduction","volume":"123 ","pages":"Article 105502"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143863993","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}
{"title":"The triumph of post-disaster neoliberal planning after the 2021 volcanic eruption in Valle de Aridane (La Palma, Canary Islands)","authors":"David Ramos-Pérez , José Alberto Rio Fernandes","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105490","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105490","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The 2021 volcanic eruption on the island of La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain) demonstrated how existing spatial planning was unable to reduce vulnerability. It also opened up a window of opportunity to change volcanic risk perceptions since specific spatial planning legislation was needed to tackle the recovery and reconstruction of Valle de Aridane. However, more than three years after the start of the eruption, new spatial planning criteria finally adopted failed to take into account the hazards associated with a volcano. This is the main conclusion of a research based on the study of the documentation generated during the spatial planning process in the Valle de Aridane, semi-structured interviews with key actors in the process and the analysis of the local media. It also shows that the original idea of restricting settlement in the areas of greatest volcanic risk and reducing the dispersion of the population was abandoned after a change in the regional government. The dominant neo-liberal urbanism approach among new policy makers and their electioneering, coupled with the prevailing short-term vision of those locals who lost their properties, have led to serious failures in the governance of post-disaster volcanic risk. This perpetuates the vulnerability of future generations of local society to further eruptions. The case study therefore confirms how, once again, social, economic and political factors are highly relevant to understanding the magnitude of catastrophes associated with extreme natural events.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":13915,"journal":{"name":"International journal of disaster risk reduction","volume":"123 ","pages":"Article 105490"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143877140","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}
Nikolaos D. Karaferis , Vasileios E. Melissianos , Konstantinos Bakalis , Athanasia K. Kazantzi , Dimitrios Vamvatsikos
{"title":"Seismic risk assessment of a crude oil refinery testbed: Alternative fragility approaches","authors":"Nikolaos D. Karaferis , Vasileios E. Melissianos , Konstantinos Bakalis , Athanasia K. Kazantzi , Dimitrios Vamvatsikos","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105495","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105495","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A crude oil refinery is employed as a benchmark to test a fundamental assumption in the seismic risk assessment of asset portfolios, i.e., that a fragility function can characterize an asset (or class thereof) with negligible loss of fidelity. Although this is often taken as granted, it also implies that one should not care about breaking the correlation in response that should exist between similar assets subjected to the same ground motion. After all, this is a direct consequence of the summarization of multiple structural analysis results into a single fragility curve that is only parameterized by the (typically scalar) intensity measure. The alternative is to separately consider individual ground motion records and only aggregate per-record results at the final level of impact metrics. Stacking the deck against the conventional approach, a refinery offers an ideal testbed of interconnected assets and multiple refining processes. The results highlight that wherever multiple similar or identical assets are involved in a system disruption, breaking their record-to-record response correlation can severely bias the assessment results.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":13915,"journal":{"name":"International journal of disaster risk reduction","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 105495"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143887223","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}
{"title":"Integrating multi-hazard, socio-physical information in a holistic index for decision making on disaster risk reduction","authors":"Gabriella Tocchi , Gemma Cremen , Carmine Galasso , Maria Polese","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105494","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105494","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Effective disaster risk management (DRM) requires a contextual understanding of the underlying risks that should account for: (1) the effects of multiple (natural) hazards on the systems/communities of interest; and (2) social vulnerability factors that influence how different sectors within a given community experience, respond to and cope with these effects. We propose a straightforward multi-hazard risk index for guiding high-level DRM decision making across a large spatial extent, which integrates both of these crucial considerations. The index represents a combination of spatially explicit, probabilistic indicators that collectively capture information on multiple risk dimensions (i.e., multiple hazards, physical and social vulnerability, and population exposure) within a given area. Each of these dimensions can be weighted (i.e., emphasised) to varying degrees in the index calculation, depending on stakeholder DRM priorities, that may vary in relation to different hazards. We apply the index to the entire country of Italy (at the resolution of municipalities) for earthquake and flood risk, using easily accessible open data, which identifies hotspots across the country where disaster risk reduction actions would be particularly beneficial. Sensitivity analyses of the weights assigned to the various risk dimensions reveal how these hotspots can change depending on the relative significance attached to managing different aspects of risk, including different hazards. This finding ultimately underlines the importance of accounting for accurate stakeholder feedback and a multi-layered (and multi-hazard) representation of risk in disaster-related decision making. A prominent advantage of the proposed index is that it is relatively simple and could be easily adopted for practical multi-risk decision support across any other national or transnational context of interest.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":13915,"journal":{"name":"International journal of disaster risk reduction","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 105494"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143911458","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}
Stefania Ondei , Grant J. Williamson , Scott Foyster , David M.J.S. Bowman
{"title":"An expert system to quantify wildfire hazards in gardens and create effective defensible space","authors":"Stefania Ondei , Grant J. Williamson , Scott Foyster , David M.J.S. Bowman","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105424","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105424","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Wildfires are causing increased house loss worldwide, especially at the wildland-urban interface. Despite the existing plethora of guidelines to help creating defensible space in a garden and protect houses from wildfire, quantifying risk remains a research frontier. We designed an assessment method based on a recent global review of defensible space guidelines and identified hazards based on fuel type, amount, and spatial arrangement. We trialled the assessment in 32 gardens located in southern Tasmania (Australia). We combined survey data using an expert system enabling calculation of hazard scores that accounts for the interaction between fuel characteristics and used sensitivity analysis to rank individual hazards based on their impact on hazard score. Gardens included a high number of plant taxa (N = 374), 72 % of which were exotic to Australia. The most common hazards were represented by material objects close to the house, as well as plant cover, garden vertical structure, and flammability of plants across the whole defensible space. Most gardens achieved an overall ‘Moderate’ (N = 15) or ‘High’ (N = 13) hazard score, with only two classified as ‘Low’ and one as ‘Very High’. Sensitivity analysis identified vegetation characteristics – cover, location, and watering status – as well as the presence of fire-protective elements as the individual variables with the highest impact on overall hazard score. The proposed method quantifies fire hazards within gardens, provides flexible solutions to support guideline implementation, and facilitates comparisons across different geographic settings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":13915,"journal":{"name":"International journal of disaster risk reduction","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 105424"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143843751","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}