DISASTER RESEARCH CENTER

PUBLICATIONS ON BUSINESSES AND DISASTERS

Published Materials



Webb, Gary, Kathleen Tierney, and James Dahlhamer. 2000. "Businesses and Disasters: Empirical Patterns and Unanswered Questions." Natural Hazards Review 1: 83-90

Tierney, Kathleen J., Stephanie E. Chang, Ronald T. Eguchi, Adam Rose, and Masanobu Shinozuka. 1999. "Improving Earthquake Loss Estimation: Review, Assessment, and Extension of Loss Estimation Methodologies." Pp. 13-28 in Research Progress and Accomplishments 1997-1999. Buffalo, New York: Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research.

Dahlhamer, James and Kathleen Tierney. 1998. "Rebounding From Disruptive Events: Business Recovery Following the Northridge Earthquake." Sociological Spectrum 18: 121-141.

Tierney, Kathleen and James Dahlhamer. 1998. "Business Disruption, Preparedness, and Recovery: Lessons from the Northridge Earthquake." Pp. 171-178 in Proceedings of the NEHRP Conference and Workshop on Research on the Northridge, California Earthquake of January 17, 1994. Richmond, CA: California Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering.

Tierney, Kathleen and James Dahlhamer. 1998. "Earthquake Vulnerability and Emergency Preparedness Among Businesses." Pp. 53-72 in Engineering and Socioeconomic Impacts of Earthquakes: An Analysis of Electricity Lifeline Disruptions in the New Madrid Area. M. Shinozuka, A. Rose, and R. T. Eguchi (Eds.) Buffalo NY, State University of New York at Buffalo, Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research. MCEER Monograph No. 2.

Tierney, Kathleen. 1997. "Business Impacts of the Northridge Earthquake." Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Vol. 5 No. 2: 87-97.

Tierney, Kathleen. 1997. "Impacts of Recent Disasters on Businesses: The 1993 Midwest Floods and the 1994 Northridge Earthquake." Pp. 189-222 in Economic Consequences of Earthquakes: Preparing for the Unexpected. Barclay G. Jones (Ed.) Buffalo, NY: State University of New York at Buffalo, National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research. NCEER Report No. NCEER-SP-0001.

Dahlhamer, James and Melvin D'Souza. 1997. "Determinants of Business Disaster Preparedness." International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 15: 265-281.

Tierney Kathleen, Joanne Nigg, and James Dahlhamer. 1996. "Impact of the 1993 Midwest Floods: Business Vulnerability and Disruption in Des Moines." Pp. 214-233 in Disaster Management in the U. S. and Canada. Richard Sylves and William T. Waugh (Eds.). Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas.

Nigg, Joanne. 1995. "Business Disruption Due to Earthquake-Induced Lifeline Interruption." Pp. 46-58 in Proceedings for Sino-US Symposium on Post-Earthquake Rehabilitation and Reconstruction. Wang Yayong and Franklin Chen (Eds.) Beijing: Ministry of Construction, People's Republic of China.

Tierney, Kathleen and Joanne Nigg. 1995. "Business Vulnerability to Disaster-Related Lifeline Disruption." Pp. 72-79 in proceedings of the Fourth U. S. Conference on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering. New York: Technical Council on Lifeline Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineering.
 
 

DRC Preliminary Papers



Webb, Gary, Kathleen Tierney, and James Dahlhamer. 2000. "Predicting Long-Term Business Recovery From Disaster: A Comparison of the Loma Prieta Earthquake and Hurricane Andrew."

Dahlhamer, James, Gary Webb, and Kathleen Tierney. 1999. "Predicting Business Financial Losses in the 1989 Loma Prieta and 1994 Northridge Earthquakes: Implications for Loss Estimation Research."

Dahlhamer, James and Kathleen Tierney. 1996. "Winners and Losers: Predicting Business Disaster Recovery Outcomes Following the Northridge Earthquake."

Dahlhamer, James and Lisa Reshaur. 1996. "Businesses and the 1994 Northridge Earthquake: An Analysis of Pre- and Post-Disaster Preparedness."

Dahlhamer, James. 1995. "Loan Request Outcomes in the U. S. Small Business Administration Business Disaster Loan Program."

Nigg, Joanne and Kathleen Tierney. 1990. "Explaining Differential Outcomes in the Small Business Disaster Loan Application Process."
 
 

M. A. Theses



Dahlhamer, James. 1992. Small Business and the Whittier Narrows Earthquake: Loan Request Outcomes in the U. S. Small Business Administration Disaster Loan Program for Businesses. Newark, DE: University of Delaware, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Disaster Research Center.

Cavanaugh, Marcia. 2000. The Loma Prieta Earthquake and Hurricane Andrew: A Comparative Study of Disaster Preparedness Activities. Newark, DE: University of Delaware, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Disaster Research Center.
 
 

Ph. D. Dissertation.



Dahlhamer, James. 1998. Rebounding from Environmental Jolts: Organizational and Ecological Factors Affecting Business Disaster Recovery. Newark, DE: University of Delaware, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Disaster Research Center.
 

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