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Front Cover -- Emerging Voices in Natural Hazards Research -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Bug out bags and rst aid kits: Undergraduate college students' awareness, perceptions, preparedness, and behavior around severe weather -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 Literature review -- 1.2 Methodology -- 1.3 Results -- 1.3.1 Characteristics of sample -- 1.3.2 Awareness and sources of severe weather alerts -- 1.3.3 Perceptions of risk and responsibility -- 1.3.4 Preparedness -- 1.3.5 Behavior around severe weather -- 1.4 Discussion -- 1.4.1 Survey limitations -- 1.4.2 Future research recommendations -- 1.5 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 2 The gender dimensions of the 2013 Southern Alberta oods -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The social construction of gender and disasters -- 2.3 Gendered vulnerability and impacts -- 2.4 Emergency management: No girls allowed? -- 2.5 Gender in disaster research -- 2.6 The gender landscape in Alberta -- 2.6.1 The Alberta advantage? -- 2.6.2 The ood experience -- 2.7 Project design -- 2.7.1 Sample design and participants -- 2.8 The gender dimensions of the 2013 ood -- 2.8.1 Gendered vulnerability -- 2.8.1.1 Cultural attitudes -- Religion and conservatism -- Inequality, bias, and discrimination -- 2.8.1.2 Domestic violence -- 2.8.1.3 Poverty and economic disparity -- Inequity -- Intersectionality -- 2.8.1.4 Household dynamics -- 2.8.2 Gendered impacts -- 2.8.2.1 Poverty and economic impacts -- Housing -- Displacement -- 2.8.2.2 Domestic violence -- 2.8.2.3 Mental health -- 2.8.2.4 Household dynamics -- 2.8.3 Gendered response and recovery -- 2.8.3.1 Direct impacts to agencies -- 2.8.3.2 Lack of gender lens -- 2.8.3.3 Interagency collaboration -- 2.8.3.4 Capacity of women -- 2.9 Lessons identi ed -- 2.9.1 Emergency management agencies -- 2.9.2 Social service agencies.

This monograph provides valuable lessons in building disaster resilience for rural communities and beyond. With a focus on Florida, the authors present a comprehensive review of the current debates surrounding the study of resilience, from federal frameworks, state plans and local initiatives. They also review evaluation tools and feature first-hand accounts of county emergency managers as well as non-profit and community groups on key issues, including perspectives on vulnerable groups such as the elderly, children and farm workers. Readers will find insightful answers to such questions as

This monograph provides valuable lessons in building disaster resilience for rural communities and beyond. With a focus on Florida, the authors present a comprehensive review of the current debates surrounding the study of resilience, from federal frameworks, state plans and local initiatives. They also review evaluation tools and feature first-hand accounts of county emergency managers as well as non-profit and community groups on key issues, including perspectives on vulnerable groups such as the elderly, children and farm workers. Readers will find insightful answers to such questions as: How can the concept of resilience be used as a framework to investigate the conditions that lead to stronger, more sustainable communities? What factors account for the variation across jurisdictions and geographic units in the ability to respond to and recover from a disaster? How does the recovery process impact the social, political and economic institutions of the stricken communities? How do communities, especially rural ones, collaborate with multiple stakeholders (local, regional, state, national) during the transition from recovery to resilience? Can the collaborative nature of disaster recovery help build resilient communities? The primary audiences of this book are scholars in emergency and crisis management, planning and policy, disaster response and recovery, disaster sociology and environmental management and policy. This book can also be used as a textbook in graduate and advanced undergraduate programs / courses on disaster management, disaster studies, emergency and crisis management, environmental policy and management and public policy and administration.

Abstract
Central Florida is an emerging destination for Puerto Ricans migrating to the contiguous states of the United States. We use in-depth interviews with Puerto Rican adults and young adults (N=25) and data from the U.S. Census to examine Central Florida Puerto Rican families' demographic and economic profiles and to compare them to those in older destinations such as New York. We focus particularly on socioeconomic integration. Findings from interviews suggest that kinship networks may aid the efforts of families to maintain socioeconomic stability by providing access to social capital. However, the generational status and levels of acculturation may affect the kinds of jobs that are attainable. Importantly, experiences with discrimination may blunt economic progress and socioeconomic integration. The erosion of feelings of belonging due to discrimination may, in turn, affect future settlement decisions. We discuss the implications of these results for Puerto Rican families' socioeconomic status and economic stability.

In this article we examined how voluntary and self-organizing efforts contributed to disaster resiliency in a rural community in Central Florida. We analyzed data from a focus group with farmworkers in Central Florida to investigate how self-organizing collective action can help develop more resilient communities in socially vulnerable populations. We identified three major themes within our coding scheme: past disaster experiences, self-organizing collective action, and challenges to self-organizing collective action and resilience. The results indicated that past disaster experiences provided an opportunity for these farmworkers to mobilize their social capital and network partnerships to self-organize and develop disaster resilience. The findings indicated that self-organizing collective action could be effective in creating disaster resilience, even in socially vulnerable populations. Nonetheless, the results also indicated certain challenges to self-organizing collective action and resilience such as: language barriers, an anti-immigrant sentiment, poor relations with law enforcement, and lack of work. These challenges are constant reminders that the goal of creating truly disaster resilient communities cannot be reached if these conditions are not lessen or eradicated.

"Natural disasters in recent years have brought the study of disaster resiliency to the forefront. The importance of community preparedness and sustainability has been underscored by such calamities as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Japanese tsunami in 2011. Natural disasters will inevitably continue to occur, but by understanding the concept of resiliency as well as the factors that lead to it, communities can minimize their vulnerabilities and increase their resilience.? In this volume, editors Naim Kapucu, Christopher V. Hawkins, and Fernando I. Rivera gather an impressive array of scholars to provide a much needed re-think to the topic disaster resiliency. Previous research on the subject has mainly focused on case studies, but this book offers a more systematic and empirical assessment of resiliency, while at the same time delving into new areas of exploration, including vulnerabilities of mobile home parks, the importance of asset mapping, and the differences between rural and urban locations. Employing a variety of statistical techniques and applying these to disasters in the United States and worldwide, this book examines resiliency through comparative methods which examine public management and policy, community planning and development, and, on the individual level, the ways in which culture, socio-economic status, and social networks contribute to resiliency. The analyses drawn will lead to the development of strategies for community preparation, response, and recovery to natural disasters."--Publisher's website.

Programa de Educación Sobre la Obesidad (PESO) was a targeted intervention which intended to raise awareness about the obesity epidemic, reduce the proportion of overweight and obese adults, and promote the consumption of fruits and vegetables within the Hispanic community of Seminole County, Florida. It was funded through the Florida Department of Health statewide Hispanic Obesity and Prevention Program. The PESO program utilized a multidisciplinary design to implement and evaluate a nutrition education and obesity reduction program. The 4-month program was a collaborative effort of the Seminole County Health Department, University of Central Florida, and Iglesia Vida Nueva church in Seminole County. We used a social marketing framework to deliver the curriculum and structure some of the lessons. In addition, we utilized this framework to critique, redesign, and make recommendations for future programs.