First, Do No Harm
Evaluating the Vulnerability Reduction of Post-Disaster Home Buyout Programs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21738227 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Devon J McGhee (0000-0003-1612-2312, Michael Baker International (United States), corresponding author), Sherri Brokopp Binder (0000-0002-8004-9407, Turner Consulting Group (United States)), Elizabeth A Albright (0000-0003-3950-2326, Duke University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Natural Hazards Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1527-6988 • E-ISSN: 1527-6996 |
| Publisher | American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1061/(asce)nh.1527-6996.0000337 |
| OpenAlex | W2981611790 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
| References cited | 41 |
Post-disaster home buyout programs are intended to reduce hazard vulnerability by facilitating the permanent relocation of people and property away from known hazardous areas. However, the effectiveness of home buyouts in reducing vulnerability has not been empirically evaluated. This study quantifies change-in-exposure to coastal flood hazards and social vulnerability among households that participated in a buyout program in New York State following Hurricane Sandy. Using a GIS-based overlay analysis, household vulnerability was evaluated before and after program participation. The authors found that 99% of the 323 households studied relocated to an area of higher social vulnerability and over 20% relocated to an area exposed to coastal flood hazards. These results suggest that significant uncertainty remains regarding the extent to which buyout programs reduce household vulnerability. More broadly, findings from this study raise questions about the use of buyout programs as policy tools for reducing hazard vulnerability and suggest that failure to carefully consider the dynamics of population relocation may result in the large-scale redistribution and shifting of vulnerability rather than its actively managed reduction
Business · Computer security · Environmental health · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Flood myth · Geography · Hazard · Natural hazard · Population · Psychological resilience · Relocation · Social vulnerability · Vulnerability assessment · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Computer Science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Environmental Science · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Medicine · Psychology
Comparative study for underlying concepts of land acquisition during post-disaster recovery in Italy, the United States and Japan
Home buyouts
Learning from a 43-year experience of post-disaster relocation in Anaa Atoll, French Polynesia
Emerging place governance to lost places for communities
Local participation in mitigation and adaptation to coastal hazards in the U.S
An index of social fabric for assessing community vulnerability to natural hazards
Comparison of three flood-related relocation programs with probabilistic cost-benefit analyses
Managing retreat? An empirical reflection on adopting relocation initiatives as adaptation policy in Louisiana
Fiscal Implications of Disasters and the Managed Retreat Thereafter
Promoting Spatial Coordination in Flood Buyouts in the United States
Managed Retreat in the Face of Climate Change
From Hazard Mitigation to Climate Adaptation
Adaptability of Low-Income Communities in Postdisaster Relocation
Planning for Disaster-Induced Relocation of Communities
Limbo
Local government perspectives on housing buyouts in New York after Hurricane Sandy
Navigating land use after managed retreat
Buyout programme experiences and perspectives of local public officials in eastern North Carolina
The administrator’s dilemma
Differential disadvantages in the distribution of federal aid across three decades of voluntary buyouts in the United States
A Buyout Displacement Index for Uncovering the Effects of Disinvestment in Greater Houston Watersheds
Neighborhood change during managed retreat
Promoting equity in retreat through voluntary property buyout programs
Integrating social and ecological considerations in floodplain relocation and restoration programs
Upheaval”
Understanding the migratory response to hurricanes and tropical storms in the USA
Generative AI for spatial regeneration planning
Social justice implications of US managed retreat buyout programs
Poverty and Disasters in the United States
Social vulnerability to floods
Resource loss and relocation
Unequal Recovery? Federal Resource Distribution after a Midwest Flood Disaster
Land use change on U.S. floodplain buyout sites, 1990-2000
The Devil Is in the Details
Home buyouts and household recovery
Vulnerability
A place-based model for understanding community resilience to natural disasters
The role of magnetic agents in shaping post-disaster land use
Social costs of displacement in Louisiana after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
Rebuild or Relocate? Resilience and Postdisaster Decision‐Making After Hurricane Sandy
Unequal Vulnerability to Flood Hazards
Shelter, Housing and Recovery
Social Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards
Vulnerability
Residential perspectives
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4.5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |