Rachel A Davidson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5094298 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel A Davidson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel A |
| FAMILY NAME | Davidson |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIDSON R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6061-5985 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A joint synthetic housing–household inventory
Stakeholder dynamics in disaster mitigation funding
The structure of disaster mitigation funding programs—when funds are distributed and how they are targeted—can shape not just how much risk is reduced, but which areas are protected, which actions are taken, and which stakeholders bear the remaining losses. While many programs focus on what gets funded, far less attention has been paid to how funding structures shape long-term outcomes across different stakeholders. This study evaluates the effec…
Coupling land use planning and multi-stakeholder dynamics to inform disaster risk management
As development accelerates in areas prone to natural hazards, economic losses from disasters rise, prompting growing need to investigate land use policies (LUP) that reduce risk and support economic and social objectives. While previous research has explored the drivers of hazard exposure, limited work has evaluated how LUP strategies influence long-term disaster outcomes through their interaction with building inventory growth and public decisio…
Computing multi-region competitive prices for hurricane-related insurance
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…
Lights out, decisions on
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…
Typology of household adaptations to infrastructure system service interruptions
Searching for signal and borrowing wi-fi
Disaster events can expose the vulnerability of telecommunications infrastructure to service disruptions. During these traumatic events, when connectivity is most needed, it sometimes takes days, or even weeks or months, for normal service to return. Affected people and communities attempt to adapt to these disruptions in creative ways, but this can lead to changing demands on other parts of the infrastructure. To understand the societal impacts …
Household Adaptations to and Impacts from Electric Power and Water Outages in the Texas 2021 Winter Storm
In February 2021, a winter storm brought snow, ice, and freezing temperatures, which caused severe interruptions in the electric power and water supply systems in Texas and surrounding areas. In this paper, we use survey data to investigate the ways that households adapted and reacted to those outages. The analysis aimed to determine (1) how common different household adaptations were, (2) how adaptations varied with outage and household characte…
Evaluation of Hurricane Evacuation Order Plans
This paper introduces an approach to evaluate the performance of a previously implemented or proposed hurricane evacuation plan that describes where and when official evacuation orders are issued. The approach involves use of the new integrated scenario-based evacuation (ISE) decision support tool to define a best track evacuation plan as a reference point and measure the performance of other plans in relation to that according to their ability t…
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…
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…
Hurricane evacuation beliefs and behaviour of inland vs. coastal populations
Although hurricanes can cause severe hazard effects well inland, little is known about the evacuation behaviour of inland populations compared to coastal populations. Using survey data collected in the United States after Hurricanes Florence (2018), Michael (2018), Barry (2019), and Dorian (2019), we investigate differences between coastal and inland populations in evacuation decisions and timing, and their causes. The data indicate that coastal …
A mixed method study of hurricane evacuation
The present paper examines the role of several demographic indicators on stated hurricane evacuation thresholds, or the lowest category storm for which participants indicated they would evacuate, for mandatory and voluntary orders. Quantitative analyses reveal that race was significantly associated with a lower stated evacuation threshold in both the bivariate and multivariate models and that previous refusal to comply with evacuation orders was …
Implementation and evolution of a regional chronic disease self-management program
Quantitative assessment of post‐disaster housing recovery
Quantitative assessment of post‐disaster housing recovery is critical to enhancing understanding of the process and improving the decisions that shape it. Nevertheless, few comprehensive empirical evaluations of post‐disaster housing recovery have been conducted, and no standard measurement methods exist. This paper presents a quantitative assessment of housing recovery in Punta Gorda, Florida, United States, following Hurricane Charley of August…
Quantitative assessment of post‐disaster housing recovery
Quantitative assessment of post‐disaster housing recovery is critical to enhancing understanding of the process and improving the decisions that shape it. Nevertheless, few comprehensive empirical evaluations of post‐disaster housing recovery have been conducted, and no standard measurement methods exist. This paper presents a quantitative assessment of housing recovery in Punta Gorda, Florida, United States, following Hurricane Charley of August…
Hurricane evacuation beliefs and behaviour of inland vs. coastal populations
Although hurricanes can cause severe hazard effects well inland, little is known about the evacuation behaviour of inland populations compared to coastal populations. Using survey data collected in the United States after Hurricanes Florence (2018), Michael (2018), Barry (2019), and Dorian (2019), we investigate differences between coastal and inland populations in evacuation decisions and timing, and their causes. The data indicate that coastal …
A mixed method study of hurricane evacuation
The present paper examines the role of several demographic indicators on stated hurricane evacuation thresholds, or the lowest category storm for which participants indicated they would evacuate, for mandatory and voluntary orders. Quantitative analyses reveal that race was significantly associated with a lower stated evacuation threshold in both the bivariate and multivariate models and that previous refusal to comply with evacuation orders was …
Quantitative assessment of post‐disaster housing recovery
Quantitative assessment of post‐disaster housing recovery is critical to enhancing understanding of the process and improving the decisions that shape it. Nevertheless, few comprehensive empirical evaluations of post‐disaster housing recovery have been conducted, and no standard measurement methods exist. This paper presents a quantitative assessment of housing recovery in Punta Gorda, Florida, United States, following Hurricane Charley of August…
A mixed method study of hurricane evacuation
The present paper examines the role of several demographic indicators on stated hurricane evacuation thresholds, or the lowest category storm for which participants indicated they would evacuate, for mandatory and voluntary orders. Quantitative analyses reveal that race was significantly associated with a lower stated evacuation threshold in both the bivariate and multivariate models and that previous refusal to comply with evacuation orders was …
Implementation and evolution of a regional chronic disease self-management program
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…
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…
Hurricane evacuation beliefs and behaviour of inland vs. coastal populations
Although hurricanes can cause severe hazard effects well inland, little is known about the evacuation behaviour of inland populations compared to coastal populations. Using survey data collected in the United States after Hurricanes Florence (2018), Michael (2018), Barry (2019), and Dorian (2019), we investigate differences between coastal and inland populations in evacuation decisions and timing, and their causes. The data indicate that coastal …
Evaluation of Hurricane Evacuation Order Plans
This paper introduces an approach to evaluate the performance of a previously implemented or proposed hurricane evacuation plan that describes where and when official evacuation orders are issued. The approach involves use of the new integrated scenario-based evacuation (ISE) decision support tool to define a best track evacuation plan as a reference point and measure the performance of other plans in relation to that according to their ability t…
Typology of household adaptations to infrastructure system service interruptions
Searching for signal and borrowing wi-fi
Disaster events can expose the vulnerability of telecommunications infrastructure to service disruptions. During these traumatic events, when connectivity is most needed, it sometimes takes days, or even weeks or months, for normal service to return. Affected people and communities attempt to adapt to these disruptions in creative ways, but this can lead to changing demands on other parts of the infrastructure. To understand the societal impacts …
Household Adaptations to and Impacts from Electric Power and Water Outages in the Texas 2021 Winter Storm
In February 2021, a winter storm brought snow, ice, and freezing temperatures, which caused severe interruptions in the electric power and water supply systems in Texas and surrounding areas. In this paper, we use survey data to investigate the ways that households adapted and reacted to those outages. The analysis aimed to determine (1) how common different household adaptations were, (2) how adaptations varied with outage and household characte…
Computing multi-region competitive prices for hurricane-related insurance
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…
Lights out, decisions on
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…
A joint synthetic housing–household inventory
Stakeholder dynamics in disaster mitigation funding
The structure of disaster mitigation funding programs—when funds are distributed and how they are targeted—can shape not just how much risk is reduced, but which areas are protected, which actions are taken, and which stakeholders bear the remaining losses. While many programs focus on what gets funded, far less attention has been paid to how funding structures shape long-term outcomes across different stakeholders. This study evaluates the effec…
Coupling land use planning and multi-stakeholder dynamics to inform disaster risk management
As development accelerates in areas prone to natural hazards, economic losses from disasters rise, prompting growing need to investigate land use policies (LUP) that reduce risk and support economic and social objectives. While previous research has explored the drivers of hazard exposure, limited work has evaluated how LUP strategies influence long-term disaster outcomes through their interaction with building inventory growth and public decisio…
Business (13 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (11 works) · Flood Risk Assessment and Management (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Environmental Science (5 works) · Housing Market and Economics (5 works) · Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (5 works) · Economics (4 works)