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Abstract

Hazard evacuation management is a critical piece of the disaster management cycle of mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. Community resilience is another important aspect of hazard evacuation management. However, current hazards and disaster literature often focuses on warning and risk communication, evacuation intentions and behavior, evacuation predictions, and evacuation models rather than connecting community resilience and hazard evacuation management. This chapter firstly provides the current research on evacuation management to show the gap in research exploring the explicit connection between evacuation management and community resilience. Secondly, background on community resilience is provided to build the connection between evacuation management and community resilience. Finally, Two case studies are provided to show how hazard evacuation management – or a lack of evacuation management – and community resilience relate to one another.

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Footnotes
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Mandatory evacuation orders require everyone to evacuate from the area. Voluntary evacuation orders (or evacuation recommendations) suggest that individuals evacuate, but it is not mandated by emergency management personnel (Meyer et al. 2018).
 
2
Including plans regarding traffic coordination and contraflow (Wolshon 2006). See Wolshon and McArdle (2011) for further discussion on traffic impacts, reentry patterns, and evacuation routes.
 
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Metadata
Title
Hazard Evacuation ManagementEvacuation management and Resilience: Case Study Examples in the USA
Author
Kyle Breen
Copyright Year
2021
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61278-8_16