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Dhar, Sondwip. "Damage assessment of various structures by hurricane Andrew using aerial photographs." FIU Digital Commons, 2002. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2792.

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The objective of this research was to assess the damage of various structures that were affected during Hurricane Andrew using aerial photographs. Different damage mechanisms were demonstrated. Quantitative damage assessment data was obtained by interpretation of aerial photographs. The damage data have been statistically analyzed. Various types of structures were studied and their typical damages were examined using the statistical analysis with respect to wind speed and zip codes. Illustrations of damages in different communities, damages to different roofs, and their possible failure mechanisms were also discussed. The damage data generated in this study can be used to predict damage during a hurricane after they are statistically correlated with the wind speed.

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Dash, Nicole. "Inequality in disaster : the case of hurricane Andrew and Florida City." FIU Digital Commons, 1994. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2738.

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This thesis is a case study of Florida City, a small community in South Dade County, Florida in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew. This is a community whose pre-impact conditions may have had as much to do with the impact of the storm as did the winds of Hurricane Andrew themselves. As will be evidenced by a comparison case study with Homestead, Florida City not only disproportionately felt the effects of the storm itself, but also received less aid. This study examines Florida City in terms of both impact of the storm and the community's future in the wake of the hurricane. Besieged by poverty and poor housing conditions, it was a community awaiting tragedy.

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Zhang, Yang. "Modeling single family housing recovery after Hurricane Andrew in Miami-Dade County, FL." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1872.

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Ortiz, Ildefonso. "The state of protestant churches and their leadership in greater Homestead since Hurricane Andrew." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), access this title online, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.108-0021.

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Catlett-Newby, Vicki L. "The effects of evacuation and relocation following Hurricane Andrew on children ages two through six." FIU Digital Commons, 1993. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2087.

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The purpose of this study was to describe the effects of evacuation from Hurricane Andrew in August of 1993 and subsequent relocation following the storm on the young children of six families from Homestead Air Force Base, Florida. Interviews were conducted over a three-month period; these were supplemented with samples of the children's drawings and observations of the children at play. The resulting case studies illustrate various coping strategies utilized by the six families to deal with the loss of home, goods, and community in the wake of the storm and the ways in which these impacted the young children in each family. Parental coping styles were an influence on the children's ability to make the adjustments necessary during this especially stressful transition.

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Price, Ambrus C. Jr. "A case study of the role of the Robert T. Stafford act in the federal,state, and local government response to hurricane Katrina and hurricane Andrew." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2012. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/294.

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This dissertation conducts a descriptive case study analysis of the Robert T. Stafford Act and the role of the Federal, State, and Local government in the response to Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Andrew. This dissertation investigates how race and class impacted the varying responses to Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Andrew and demonstrates how available legislation could have prevented the massive loss of life and property.Data presented in this study examined the effectiveness of the Robert T. Stafford Act and why it is an effective and necessary piece of legislation during natural disasters in lessening the loss of life, property, income and overall human suffering. The analysis in this dissertation examined the results of a study on whether race and class played a direct role in the type of response provided by all levels of government. The study concludes that the poor response provided to the victims of Hurricane Katrina could have been vastly improved if the guidelines of the Robert T. Stafford Act were followed and implemented properly.

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May, Jeremy L. "Responses of Four Non-tidal Forest Communities of the Florida Everglades to Hurricane Impact over 21 Years." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2467.

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The regular occurrence of hurricane-associated winds has been an important factor in shaping the structure and composition of the forest ecosystems of the Florida Everglades. Forest communities in the Everglades are adapted to hurricane disturbances, but increased frequency and/or intensity of hurricanes may lead to decline or even collapse of these communities. The overall objective of this project is to understand the patterns, pace, and mechanisms of the recovery process to Hurricane Andrew damage in four Everglade forest communities: pinelands, hardwood hammocks, bayhead tree islands, and cypress domes. This study combines long- and short-term field measurements and experimental garden studies to determine how the four woody plant community types recover from hurricane impacts. Most of the community types were adversely affected by storm damage in the short-term (3 years post-hurricane) through altered growth rates and canopy defoliation, however these effects were relatively short lived and were not visible in shifts in species composition after the long-term (20 year) recovery period. Only in the most diverse communities over the long-term there was a delayed mortality in damaged individuals that drove a diversity loss. This loss was not present over the short-term recovery time period. Using individual damage extent and short-term recovery growth rates, I developed a simplified model that accurately predicted surviving individual stem size over long-term recovery periods of Taxodium distichum within cypress domes and select hardwood hammock species. The shadehouse experiments demonstrated the importance of nutrient availability to growth of seedlings of canopy dominants. Recruits of these species responded to changing environmental conditions associated with storm impact through a variety of strategies in accordance with their adaptive traits. Synergistically, the combined parts of this dissertation demonstrate directional community and species-specific shifts that vary over time scales. Storm impacts have the potential to alter community composition and diversity within impacted systems, and in particular the Everglades ecosystem.

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Lu, Jing-Chein. "A comparative study of single family and multifamily housing recovery following 1992 Hurricane Andrew in Miami-Dade County, Florida." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-3078.

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Alba, Manuel Rafael. "Natural disaster and household recovery in the aftermath of hurricane Andrew : a case study of four Hispanic households in South Miami Heights." FIU Digital Commons, 1995. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1187.

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This thesis explores the aid received by four Hispanic households towards recovery after Hurricane Andrew. The four households resided in South Miami Heights, a suburb of Miami. Through the use of questionnaires, information was gathered on various storm related topics. Because the Cuban community in Miami is influential, the role of the Cuban enclave is studied in relation to the recovery of these households. The influence of an urban environment on the extended family ties of these households is also addressed since the literature argues that these ties are powerful among Hispanics. Results show, that aid primarily came from two sources. Furthermore, the Cuban enclave appears to have had no discernible role in the recovery of these households. Finally, an urban setting did not appear to diminish extended family ties.

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Solomons, Evan. "Gathering Storm: Structuring More Successful Responses to Disasters." Thesis, Department of Government and International Relations, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2166.

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Abstract The period between 1992 and 2005 was turbulent for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Failed responses to Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina resulted in academics questioning the efficacy of FEMA’s structure and ability to coordinate a response. The literature studying this phenomenon focuses on whether the failed responses were due to FEMA’s structure being too flexible or too hierarchical. This thesis argues this duality misses the point. First, the literature is overly focused on failure at the expense of success. This necessarily ignores half the story. Analysing successful responses will provide a more holistic view of what structures are the most appropriate in a response. Second, responses are never wholly open or closed but rather a mixture of both. FEMA’s responses need to be disaggregated into their strategic (policy-makers) and operational (implementers) components and their combinations examined. With reference to two failures, Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina, and two successes, The Great Midwest Floods and Northridge Earthquake, this thesis argues optimal response frameworks are strategically closed and operationally open.
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Department of Government and International Relations

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Flott, Phyllis (Phyllis L. ). "An Analysis of the Determinants of Recovery of Businesses After a Natural Disaster Using a Multi-Paradigm Approach." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc935766/.

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This study examines the recovery process of businesses in Homestead, Florida after Hurricane Andrew in 1992. The goal of this study was to determine which organizational characteristics were useful in predicting the level of physical damage and the length of time to reopen for affected businesses. The organizational characteristics examined were age, size, pre-disaster gross sales, ownership of the business location, membership in the Chamber of Commerce, and property insurance. Three-hundred and fifty businesses in the area were surveyed. Because of the complexity of the recovery process, the disaster experiences of businesses were examined using three paradigms, organizational ecology, contingency theory, and configuration theory. Models were developed and tested for each paradigm. The models used the contextual variables to explain the outcome variables; level of physical damage and length of time to reopen. The SIC was modified so that it could form the framework for a taxonomic examination of the businesses. The organizations were examined at the level of division, class, subclass, and order. While the taxa and consistent levels of physical damage, the length of time needed to reopen varied greatly. The homogeneous level of damage within the groups is linked to similarity in assets and transformation processes. When examined using the contingency perspective, there were no significant relationships between the level of physical damage and the contextual variables. Only predisaster gross sales and level of physical damage had moderate strength associations with the length of time to reopen. The configuration perspective was applied by identifying clusters of organizations using the contextual variables. Clusters were identified and examined to determine if they had significantly different disaster experiences. The clusters varied significantly only by the length of time to reopen. The disaster experience of businesses is conceptualized as a process of accumulation-deaccumulation-reaccumulation. The level of physical damage is driven by selection while the lenght of time to reopen is determined by both adaptation and selection.

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Pearce, Stuart. "Coastal Trapped Waves Generated By Hurricane Andrew on the Texas-Louisiana Shelf." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-12-10657.

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The Texas-Louisiana Shelf Circulation and Transport Study featured moorings that covered the shelf during 1992 to 1994, and captured the oceanic response on the shelf to category 4 Hurricane Andrew in August of 1992. Eighty-one current meters distributed over 31 moorings along several contours of isobaths provided excellent spatial and temporal coverage over the shelf. The low-frequency variability (2 days and longer) of current observations and tide gauges to the West of the storm are analyzed after the passage of Andrew, focusing on the region outside of direct hurricane forcing. Wavelet analyses are utilized to investigate the dominant periods excited by the storm over the shelf and their temporal evolution after forcing has subsided. Subsequent to the storm's passage, the observations and wavelet transforms show a two-to-four day period coastal trapped wave that propagate westward at speeds near 6 m/s and then around the Texas bend along the bathymetry. The signal remains detectable in observations as far south as Port Isabel, Texas. The prominent frequencies determined from wavelet analysis are compared with predicted coastal trapped wave dispersion modes and show good agreement in the predicted group speed and cross-shelf structure of the first mode. The energies calculated from the data indicate a largely barotropic shelf wave response which is corroborated in the observed currents and by theory.

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Winter, Nancy Leeson. "Managing a mega-disaster GIS applications, decision making and spatial data flow between local, state and federal levels in Hurricane Andrew disaster management /." 1997. http://books.google.com/books?id=RnbaAAAAMAAJ.

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Minchey, Reigan Jacoba. "Exploring differences and similarities in the content of reports on Hurricane Andrew in five point media sources." 2009. http://etd.utk.edu/2009/May2009Theses/MincheyReiganJacoba.pdf.

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"A framing analysis of the media after hurricane Andrew and its effect on the insurance industry of Florida [electronic resource] / by Diane Stull." 2000. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/dl/SF00000183.jpg.

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