Joseph Trainor
Biographic Data
| ID | 4778495 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Trainor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Trainor |
| SIGNATURE | TRAINOR J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1676-1985 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1948 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Modeling household decision-making for structural retrofit processes
Where and how? The effects of land use policies and building codes in reducing residential hurricane risk
Factors influencing homeowners in the process of retrofit decision-making
Stakeholder-Based Tool for the Analysis of Regional Risk
This paper presents the Stakeholder-Based Tool for the Analysis of Regional Risk (STARR), a dynamic, stochastic computational framework designed to inform the creation and analysis of government policies for regional disaster risk management. STARR consists of seven interacting modules. Three describe the decision-making of, respectively, government agencies, insurers, and households; four (hazard, damage and loss, buildings, economy) describe th…
A land use policy analysis method for natural hazard risk management across a regional single-family housing inventory
Managing a region’s natural hazard risk while also meeting demands for new development can be challenging. New development supports local governments’ tax revenues and other economic activities but may also lead to longer-term natural hazard losses if new construction is left unrestricted. Government entities commonly use land use policies to influence the location of new development. We developed a new land use policy analysis method that aims t…
Inspired to Action
Sources of disaster resilience represent important (but understudied) dimensions of the interplay between immigrants and disasters, as do immigrants’ disaster response activities. Using key informant interviews, we examine immigrant faith-based organizations’ (FBO) responses to two contemporary pandemics. Additionally, we assess for the presence of disaster-relevant social capital in immigrant FBOs. FBOs were found to possess key components of so…
Community Resilience
The science of resilience presents the opportunity to explain how natural, social, and physical systems interact to impact community functioning and well-being postdisaster. This paper describes the development and theoretical foundation of a comprehensive conceptual model, presenting a shift from the usual thinking about resilience to construe resilience more precisely as the trajectory of postdisaster recovery, with community functioning and we…
The Impact of Grants on Homeowner Decisions to Retrofit to Reduce Hurricane-Induced Wind and Flood Damage
An increasing number of national, state, and local programs have offered grants or other monetary incentives to encourage homeowners to retrofit their homes to reduce damage from natural hazard events. Despite this fact, little is known about how these offerings influence a homeowner’s decision to carry out such structural retrofits. This paper studies the impact that different grant program designs in particular have on the decision to undertake…
Responding to natural disasters vs. disease outbreaks
Computational Framework to Support Government Policy-Making for Hurricane Risk Management
This paper introduces a computational framework that can be used to identify hurricane risk management solutions based on the operation of the system as a whole. The framework represents interactions among multiple types of stakeholders (homeowners, insurers, government, reinsurers) and several strategies (insurance, retrofit, property acquisition). It supports the following government decisions: (1) how much to spend on mitigation; (2) how to re…
Handbook of Disaster Research
Tornadoes, Social Science, and the False Alarm Effect
Despite considerable interest in the weather enterprise, there is little focused research on the “false alarm effect.” Within the body of research that does exist, findings are mixed. Some studies suggest that the false alarm effect is overstated, while several recent efforts have provided evidence that FAR may be a significant determinate of behavior. This effort contributes to the understanding of FAR through a sociological analysis of public p…
Geographic Specificity, Tornadoes, and Protective Action
In 2007, the National Weather Service (NWS) began using storm-based warnings (SBWs) rather than countywide warnings. Some analysts have examined the effects of this change, but little empirical research has yet to focus on the public response. Using a random digit dialing sample and a computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) system, data were collected that focused on protective action decision making in counties that were affected by a se…
Managing volunteers
In the aftermath of disasters it is not uncommon for a large number of individuals, ranging from professional technical responders to untrained, albeit well meaning, volunteers, to converge on site of a disaster in order to offer to help victims or other responders. Because volunteers can be both a help and a hindrance in disaster response, they pose a paradox to professional responders at the scene. Through focus group interviews and in‐depth st…
A snapshot of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the societal impacts and consequences of the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Design/methodology/approach One month after the tsunami, a group of social science researchers from the Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware, and the Emergency Administration and Planning Program, University of North Texas, participated in an Earthquake Engineering Research Institute reconnaissance team,…
Rising to the Challenges of a Catastrophe
Using several data sources including an extensive database of media reports and a series of government documents, but relying primarily on the University of Delaware’s Disaster Research Center’s field research in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the authors describe the nontraditional behavior that emerged in that catastrophe. They also discuss the prosocial behavior (much of it emergent) that was by far the primary response to this event, des…
An Experiment with Comprehensive Medicine
The FEMA Higher Education Program has released a new book that combines the knowledge and experience of emergency management practitioners and researchers, the result of which is a dialogue between the two sectors about the top issues in emergency management. \n \nCritical Issues in Disaster Science and Management: A Dialogue Between Researchers and Practitioners includes 12 sections written from the views of more than 20 emergency management pra…
Rising to the Challenges of a Catastrophe
Using several data sources including an extensive database of media reports and a series of government documents, but relying primarily on the University of Delaware’s Disaster Research Center’s field research in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the authors describe the nontraditional behavior that emerged in that catastrophe. They also discuss the prosocial behavior (much of it emergent) that was by far the primary response to this event, des…
Managing volunteers
In the aftermath of disasters it is not uncommon for a large number of individuals, ranging from professional technical responders to untrained, albeit well meaning, volunteers, to converge on site of a disaster in order to offer to help victims or other responders. Because volunteers can be both a help and a hindrance in disaster response, they pose a paradox to professional responders at the scene. Through focus group interviews and in‐depth st…
Inspired to Action
Sources of disaster resilience represent important (but understudied) dimensions of the interplay between immigrants and disasters, as do immigrants’ disaster response activities. Using key informant interviews, we examine immigrant faith-based organizations’ (FBO) responses to two contemporary pandemics. Additionally, we assess for the presence of disaster-relevant social capital in immigrant FBOs. FBOs were found to possess key components of so…
An Experiment with Comprehensive Medicine
The FEMA Higher Education Program has released a new book that combines the knowledge and experience of emergency management practitioners and researchers, the result of which is a dialogue between the two sectors about the top issues in emergency management. \n \nCritical Issues in Disaster Science and Management: A Dialogue Between Researchers and Practitioners includes 12 sections written from the views of more than 20 emergency management pra…
A snapshot of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the societal impacts and consequences of the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Design/methodology/approach One month after the tsunami, a group of social science researchers from the Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware, and the Emergency Administration and Planning Program, University of North Texas, participated in an Earthquake Engineering Research Institute reconnaissance team,…
Rising to the Challenges of a Catastrophe
Using several data sources including an extensive database of media reports and a series of government documents, but relying primarily on the University of Delaware’s Disaster Research Center’s field research in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the authors describe the nontraditional behavior that emerged in that catastrophe. They also discuss the prosocial behavior (much of it emergent) that was by far the primary response to this event, des…
Managing volunteers
In the aftermath of disasters it is not uncommon for a large number of individuals, ranging from professional technical responders to untrained, albeit well meaning, volunteers, to converge on site of a disaster in order to offer to help victims or other responders. Because volunteers can be both a help and a hindrance in disaster response, they pose a paradox to professional responders at the scene. Through focus group interviews and in‐depth st…
Geographic Specificity, Tornadoes, and Protective Action
In 2007, the National Weather Service (NWS) began using storm-based warnings (SBWs) rather than countywide warnings. Some analysts have examined the effects of this change, but little empirical research has yet to focus on the public response. Using a random digit dialing sample and a computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) system, data were collected that focused on protective action decision making in counties that were affected by a se…
Tornadoes, Social Science, and the False Alarm Effect
Despite considerable interest in the weather enterprise, there is little focused research on the “false alarm effect.” Within the body of research that does exist, findings are mixed. Some studies suggest that the false alarm effect is overstated, while several recent efforts have provided evidence that FAR may be a significant determinate of behavior. This effort contributes to the understanding of FAR through a sociological analysis of public p…
Handbook of Disaster Research
The Impact of Grants on Homeowner Decisions to Retrofit to Reduce Hurricane-Induced Wind and Flood Damage
An increasing number of national, state, and local programs have offered grants or other monetary incentives to encourage homeowners to retrofit their homes to reduce damage from natural hazard events. Despite this fact, little is known about how these offerings influence a homeowner’s decision to carry out such structural retrofits. This paper studies the impact that different grant program designs in particular have on the decision to undertake…
Responding to natural disasters vs. disease outbreaks
Computational Framework to Support Government Policy-Making for Hurricane Risk Management
This paper introduces a computational framework that can be used to identify hurricane risk management solutions based on the operation of the system as a whole. The framework represents interactions among multiple types of stakeholders (homeowners, insurers, government, reinsurers) and several strategies (insurance, retrofit, property acquisition). It supports the following government decisions: (1) how much to spend on mitigation; (2) how to re…
Community Resilience
The science of resilience presents the opportunity to explain how natural, social, and physical systems interact to impact community functioning and well-being postdisaster. This paper describes the development and theoretical foundation of a comprehensive conceptual model, presenting a shift from the usual thinking about resilience to construe resilience more precisely as the trajectory of postdisaster recovery, with community functioning and we…
Inspired to Action
Sources of disaster resilience represent important (but understudied) dimensions of the interplay between immigrants and disasters, as do immigrants’ disaster response activities. Using key informant interviews, we examine immigrant faith-based organizations’ (FBO) responses to two contemporary pandemics. Additionally, we assess for the presence of disaster-relevant social capital in immigrant FBOs. FBOs were found to possess key components of so…
Modeling household decision-making for structural retrofit processes
Where and how? The effects of land use policies and building codes in reducing residential hurricane risk
Factors influencing homeowners in the process of retrofit decision-making
Stakeholder-Based Tool for the Analysis of Regional Risk
This paper presents the Stakeholder-Based Tool for the Analysis of Regional Risk (STARR), a dynamic, stochastic computational framework designed to inform the creation and analysis of government policies for regional disaster risk management. STARR consists of seven interacting modules. Three describe the decision-making of, respectively, government agencies, insurers, and households; four (hazard, damage and loss, buildings, economy) describe th…
A land use policy analysis method for natural hazard risk management across a regional single-family housing inventory
Managing a region’s natural hazard risk while also meeting demands for new development can be challenging. New development supports local governments’ tax revenues and other economic activities but may also lead to longer-term natural hazard losses if new construction is left unrestricted. Government entities commonly use land use policies to influence the location of new development. We developed a new land use policy analysis method that aims t…
Disaster Management and Resilience (12 works) · Engineering (10 works) · Business (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Flood Risk Assessment and Management (6 works) · Disaster Response and Management (5 works) · Public relations (5 works)