Risky Development: Increasing Exposure to Natural Hazards in the United States

Losses from natural hazards are escalating dramatically, with more properties and critical infrastructure affected each year. Although the magnitude, intensity, and/or frequency of certain hazards has increased, development contributes to this unsustainable trend, as disasters emerge when natural di...

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Published in:	Earth's future Vol. 9; no. 7; pp. e2020EF001795 - n/a
Main Authors:	Iglesias, Virginia, Braswell, Anna E., Rossi, Matthew W., Joseph, Maxwell B., McShane, Caitlin, Cattau, Megan, Koontz, Michael J., McGlinchy, Joe, Nagy, R. Chelsea, Balch, Jennifer, Leyk, Stefan, Travis, William R.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.07.2021 John Wiley and Sons Inc Wiley
Subjects:	Abrupt/Rapid Climate Change Air/Sea Constituent Fluxes Air/Sea Interactions Atmospheric Atmospheric Composition and Structure Atmospheric Effects Atmospheric Processes Avalanches Benefit‐cost Analysis Biogeosciences Buildings Case studies Climate and Interannual Variability Climate change Climate Change and Variability Climate Dynamics Climate effects Climate Impact Climate Impacts Climate Variability Climatic changes Climatology Computational Geophysics Cryosphere Datasets Decadal Ocean Variability Disaster Risk Analysis and Assessment Disasters Earth System Modeling Earthquake Ground Motions and Engineering Seismology Earthquakes Economic aspects Effusive Volcanism Environmental aspects Explosive Volcanism Exposure Floods Forecasts and trends General Circulation Geodesy and Gravity Geological Global Change Global Change from Geodesy Gravity and Isostasy Hazards Historic sites Hurricanes Hydrological Cycles and Budgets Hydrology Impacts of Global Change Influence Informatics Land use Land/Atmosphere Interactions Marine Geology and Geophysics Market trend/market analysis Mass Balance Mathematical Geophysics Methods Modeling Mud Volcanism Multihazards Natural disaster damage Natural disasters Natural disturbance Natural Hazards Nonlinear Geophysics Numerical Modeling Numerical Solutions Ocean influence of Earth rotation Ocean Monitoring with Geodetic Techniques Ocean/Atmosphere Interactions Ocean/Earth/atmosphere/hydrosphere/cryosphere interactions Oceanic Oceanography: General Oceanography: Physical Oceans Office buildings Paleoceanography Physical Modeling Policy Sciences Radio Oceanography Radio Science Regional Climate Change Regional Modeling Remote Sensing Remote Sensing and Disasters Remote Sensing of Volcanoes Risk Risk assessment Sea Level Change Sea Level: Variations and Mean Seismic activity Seismology Social aspects Solid Earth Space Geodetic Surveys Storm damage Surface Waves and Tides Theoretical Modeling Tornadoes Tsunamis and Storm Surges United States Volcanic Effects Volcanic Hazards and Risks Volcano Monitoring Volcano Seismology Volcano/Climate Interactions Volcanology vulnerability Water Cycles Wildfires Wind Zillow United States Sacramento Valley United States > US Zillow natural hazards risk vulnerability exposure
ISSN:	2328-4277, 2328-4277
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