Recently, scholars have turned to publicly available data to measure the resources and
vulnerability of communities in the face of disasters [1, 2]. However, when measuring …

Medicare eligibility files provide the ZIP code of each beneficiary's mailing address, which is
maintained by the Social Security Administration (SSA). This is the address that is used to …

Voluntary property buyouts have been the most prevalent form of managed retreat in the
USA to date. Tens of thousands of households have sold their flood-prone homes to the …

Many coastal urban areas are experiencing impacts of accelerated chronic and episodic
flooding on the built environment and people's livelihoods and quality of life. These impacts …

Effectively responding to intensifying climate change hazards requires identifying risks
arising from each response, as well as risks arising from the dynamic interactions between …

Formal and informal insurance mechanisms help people recover from material losses
associated with climate disasters. However, people may also find other ways to cope with …

This paper examines the dynamic impact of natural disasters on the individual acceptance of
a physical form of intimate partner violence (IPV). Based on a global sample of individual …

Residential displacement as a result of climate change impacts will manifest on varied
temporal and spatial scales affecting both coastal and inland communities. As coastal …

Residential relocation following environmental disasters is an increasingly necessary
climate change adaptation measure. However, relocation is among the costliest individual …

Millions of people are displaced by natural disasters each year, yet little is known about how
evacuees affect host communities. We analyze the migratory effects of the most destructive …