TY - JOUR
T1 - Community Resilience-Focused Technical Investigation of the 2016 Lumberton, North Carolina, Flood
T2 - An Interdisciplinary Approach
AU - Van De Lindt, John W.
AU - Peacock, Walter Gillis
AU - Mitrani-Reiser, Judith
AU - Rosenheim, Nathanael
AU - Deniz, Derya
AU - Dillard, Maria
AU - Tomiczek, Tori
AU - Koliou, Maria
AU - Graettinger, Andrew
AU - Crawford, P. Shane
AU - Harrison, Kenneth
AU - Barbosa, Andre
AU - Tobin, Jennifer
AU - Helgeson, Jennifer
AU - Peek, Lori
AU - Memari, Mehrdad
AU - Sutley, Elaina J.
AU - Hamideh, Sara
AU - Gu, Donghwan
AU - Cauffman, Stephen
AU - Fung, Juan
N1 - Funding Information:
The Center of Excellence (CoE) for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning, funded by the NIST, aims to advance measurement science for community resilience assessment and risk-informed decision-making. The CoE is headquartered at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado and includes researchers from 12 universities and collaborates with several groups and divisions of the Engineering Laboratory at NIST. This paper presents the methodological approach to the fieldwork and example results of the first wave of an interdisciplinary longitudinal study on community resilience applied to the city of Lumberton, North Carolina; interested readers are referred to van de Lindt et al. (2018) for the full report documenting the project.
PY - 2020/8/1
Y1 - 2020/8/1
N2 - In early October 2016, Hurricane Matthew crossed North Carolina as a Category 1 storm, with some areas receiving 0.38-0.46 m (15-18 in.) of rainfall on already saturated soil. The NIST-funded Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning teamed with researchers from NIST's Engineering Laboratory (Disaster and Failure Studies Program, Community Resilience Group, and the Applied Economics Office) to conduct a field study focused on the impacts of the Lumber River flooding in Lumberton, North Carolina. Lumberton is a racially and ethnically diverse community with higher than average poverty and unemployment rates, a typical civil infrastructure for a city of 22,000 residents, and a city council form of government. The field data described in this paper are from the first wave in an ongoing longitudinal research project documenting the impacts and subsequent recovery processes following the 2016 riverine flooding in Lumberton. The initial data collection for this longitudinal community resilience-focused field study had two major objectives: (1) document initial conditions after the flood for the longitudinal study of Lumberton's recovery, with a focus on improving flood-damage and population-dislocation models; and (2) develop a multidisciplinary protocol providing a quantitative linkage between engineering-based flood damage assessments and social science-based household interviews that capture socioeconomic conditions (e.g., social vulnerabilities related to race, ethnicity, income, tenancy status, and education levels). This type of interdisciplinary longitudinal research is critical to better understand community processes in the face of disasters and ultimately provide data and inform best practices for enhancing resilience to natural hazards in US communities. This paper describes the development and implementation of this interdisciplinary effort and offers an example of combining an engineering assessment of flood damage to residential structures and social science data to model household dislocation. Dislocation probabilities were primarily driven by flooding damage but also varied significantly among Lumberton's racial/ethnic populations and by tenure.
AB - In early October 2016, Hurricane Matthew crossed North Carolina as a Category 1 storm, with some areas receiving 0.38-0.46 m (15-18 in.) of rainfall on already saturated soil. The NIST-funded Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning teamed with researchers from NIST's Engineering Laboratory (Disaster and Failure Studies Program, Community Resilience Group, and the Applied Economics Office) to conduct a field study focused on the impacts of the Lumber River flooding in Lumberton, North Carolina. Lumberton is a racially and ethnically diverse community with higher than average poverty and unemployment rates, a typical civil infrastructure for a city of 22,000 residents, and a city council form of government. The field data described in this paper are from the first wave in an ongoing longitudinal research project documenting the impacts and subsequent recovery processes following the 2016 riverine flooding in Lumberton. The initial data collection for this longitudinal community resilience-focused field study had two major objectives: (1) document initial conditions after the flood for the longitudinal study of Lumberton's recovery, with a focus on improving flood-damage and population-dislocation models; and (2) develop a multidisciplinary protocol providing a quantitative linkage between engineering-based flood damage assessments and social science-based household interviews that capture socioeconomic conditions (e.g., social vulnerabilities related to race, ethnicity, income, tenancy status, and education levels). This type of interdisciplinary longitudinal research is critical to better understand community processes in the face of disasters and ultimately provide data and inform best practices for enhancing resilience to natural hazards in US communities. This paper describes the development and implementation of this interdisciplinary effort and offers an example of combining an engineering assessment of flood damage to residential structures and social science data to model household dislocation. Dislocation probabilities were primarily driven by flooding damage but also varied significantly among Lumberton's racial/ethnic populations and by tenure.
KW - Community resilience
KW - Flood damage
KW - Household dislocation
KW - Lumberton
KW - Poverty
KW - Race/ethnicity
KW - Recovery
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U2 - 10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000387
DO - 10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000387
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85088431667
VL - 21
JO - Natural Hazards Review
JF - Natural Hazards Review
SN - 1527-6988
IS - 3
M1 - 04020029
ER -