Business plays important roles in community functioning. However, disaster research has been disproportionately focusing on units of analysis such as families, households, and government agencies. This paper synthesizes the major findings within the business development research field and those within the disaster research field. It constructs a research framework for evaluating business vulnerability to natural disasters. Our theoretical integration of the research conducted to date addresses five major issues. First, it defines the ways in which businesses are subject to the impacts of natural disasters. Second, it identifies the factors that determine the magnitude of business impacts after a disaster. Third, it identifies how an...
This paper presents findings from two Disaster Research Center surveys on disaster-related business ...
Natural disasters challenge a community’s resilience. Prior community resilience research has focuse...
Tourism business plays an important role in developing a region’s economy. Most of the operators are...
Business plays important roles in community functioning. However, disaster research has been dispro...
Focuses on research concerning businesses and disasters -what is currently known, what hazard resea...
Through five systematic, large-scale mail surveys conducted since 1993, the Disaster Research Cente...
This paper examines the impacts of the February, 2001, Nisqually earthquake on businesses. Focusing ...
Understanding business vulnerability to disasters is important for loss estimation, hazard mitigati...
This chapter focuses on research concerning businesses and disasters-what is currently known, what h...
Understanding business vulnerability to disasters is important for loss estimation, hazard mitigatio...
While the long-term effects of disaster and the factors that affect the ability to recover have rece...
Although the long-term effects of disasters and the factors that affect the ability to recover have ...
Although in recent years social scientists have paid increasing attention to the impacts of disaster...
Although the long-term effects of disasters and the factors that affect the ability to recover have ...
The ways in which private businesses are affected by and attempt to recover from earthquakes and oth...
This paper presents findings from two Disaster Research Center surveys on disaster-related business ...
Natural disasters challenge a community’s resilience. Prior community resilience research has focuse...
Tourism business plays an important role in developing a region’s economy. Most of the operators are...
Business plays important roles in community functioning. However, disaster research has been dispro...
Focuses on research concerning businesses and disasters -what is currently known, what hazard resea...
Through five systematic, large-scale mail surveys conducted since 1993, the Disaster Research Cente...
This paper examines the impacts of the February, 2001, Nisqually earthquake on businesses. Focusing ...
Understanding business vulnerability to disasters is important for loss estimation, hazard mitigati...
This chapter focuses on research concerning businesses and disasters-what is currently known, what h...
Understanding business vulnerability to disasters is important for loss estimation, hazard mitigatio...
While the long-term effects of disaster and the factors that affect the ability to recover have rece...
Although the long-term effects of disasters and the factors that affect the ability to recover have ...
Although in recent years social scientists have paid increasing attention to the impacts of disaster...
Although the long-term effects of disasters and the factors that affect the ability to recover have ...
The ways in which private businesses are affected by and attempt to recover from earthquakes and oth...
This paper presents findings from two Disaster Research Center surveys on disaster-related business ...
Natural disasters challenge a community’s resilience. Prior community resilience research has focuse...
Tourism business plays an important role in developing a region’s economy. Most of the operators are...