Special Issue on Comprehensive Disaster Prevention Measures for Underground Spaces (Underground Malls, etc.)

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-273
Author(s):  
Ichiro Matsuo ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Hurricane Sandy ◽  
Underground Space ◽  
Disaster Prevention ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Tokyo Metropolitan Area ◽  
Safety Standards

Underground spaces have been variously used. Excluding underground floors of individual buildings, underground space in Japan is mainly used for streets, railways, and parking. Stores are often grouped along underground passages to underground railways and parking near main urban terminals. An accidental underground gas explosion at Shizuoka Station in 1980 led to disaster prevention measures in such spaces, forcing stricter safety standards. Following this was the 1999 Hakata underground mall inundation by the Mikawa River, which has further broadened the attention to the underground space and its inundation risk. Inundation damages in underground malls and spaces had occurred repeatedly since then, however, we believe that the 2012 inundation damage to underground spaces in New York city caused by Hurricane Sandy triggered further reviews of disaster prevention measures against underground spaces in Japan. Recently, small inundation damages often occurred in underground malls in Japan. With our praying these would not be prior events for possible large disasters, we publish this special issue considering that publishing disaster prevention measures and researches for underground spaces is increasingly important worldwide. This special issue features inundation damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, Japan's law systems on antiflood measures in underground spaces, antiflood measures of the subway in Tokyo Metropolitan Area, current situations of antiflood measures in underground spaces. We would like to express our sincere thanks to those who contributed reports and research papers to this issue.

COVID-19 as an Extreme Event in the New York Metropolitan Region

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Marcotullio ◽  
William D. Solecki
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Extreme Event ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Deadly Disease

During early 2020, the world encountered an extreme event in the form of a new and deadly disease, COVID-19. Over the next two years, the pandemic brought sickness and death to countries and their cities around the globe. One of the first and initially the hardest hit location was New York City, USA. This article is an introduction to the Special Issue in this journal that highlights the impacts from and responses to COVID-19 as an extreme event in the New York City metropolitan region. We overview the aspects of COVID-19 that make it an important global extreme event, provide brief background to the conditions in the world, and the US before describing the 10 articles in the issue that focus on conditions, events and dynamics in New York City during the initial phases of the pandemic.

Hurricane Sandy, October 2012, New York City (USA)

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbra Mann Wall ◽  
Victoria LaMaina ◽  
Emma MacAllister
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Hurricane Sandy

Adaptation to Future Risks in Coastal Megacities — New York City Case Study: Local Assessment and Survey Findings in Water Front Neighborhoods

2018 ◽  
Vol 05 (01) ◽  
pp. 1850002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hildegaard Link ◽  
Chris Barrett
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Extreme Weather ◽  
Hurricane Sandy ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Water Front

Risk management regimes develop as stakeholders attempt to reduce vulnerability to hazards and limit the damage and disruption from disasters. Urban coastal regions are often hotspots of climate change-related risks. Analysis of different characteristics of vulnerability, resilience, and transformation is an important precursor to planning and decision making. While these concepts are not new, in many areas they remain very abstract. This paper offers a method to assess vulnerability at the individual household scale in different New York City water front neighborhoods that were extensively damaged during hurricane Sandy in 2012. Household Surveys were conducted in Red Hook, Brooklyn and Edgemere/Arverne, Queens in early 2016. Survey results suggest that at the household level, feelings of preparedness and trust in local government’s ability to effectively manage and respond to extreme weather differ with the varying political/economic climates of each neighborhood. Our survey results also indicate that residents are changing their emergency planning behavior, regardless of politics or economics. Responses show residents adapting their thinking to acknowledge the potential for increasing risk from extreme weather events in both locations studied.

Immediate impact of hurricane sandy on people who inject drugs in New York city

2015 ◽  
Vol 146 ◽  
pp. e72-e73
Author(s):  
Enrique R. Pouget ◽  
Milagros Sandoval ◽  
Georgios K. Nikolopoulos ◽  
Samuel R. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
People Who Inject Drugs ◽  
Hurricane Sandy

scholarly journals Introduction to the 32nd International Conference on Logic Programming Special Issue

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 509-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
MANUEL CARRO ◽  
ANDY KING
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Logic Programming ◽  
York City ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Significant Power ◽  
Main Track ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
The City

The main track of the Thirty Second International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) took place in New York City, USA, from the 18th to the 21st October 2016. It seems fitting to hold a significant, power of two, ICLP in New York because the city has a long and distinguished association with logic programming: XSB was developed at Stony Brook, as was HiLog before that, and SB-Prolog before that. Moreover, Picat was developed at the City University of New York, as was B-Prolog, and other logic programming-based systems, such as Ergo. New York has also been (and is) the cradle of several start-ups based on logic programming.

scholarly journals The Storm Surge and Sub-Grid Inundation Modeling in New York City during Hurricane Sandy

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 226-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Wang ◽  
Jon Loftis ◽  
Zhuo Liu ◽  
David Forrest ◽  
Joseph Zhang
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Storm Surge ◽  
York City ◽  
Hurricane Sandy ◽  
Inundation Modeling

scholarly journals Wind disasters adaptation in cities in a changing climate: A systematic review

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. e0248503
Author(s):  
Yue He ◽  
Boqun Wu ◽  
Pan He ◽  
Weiyi Gu ◽  
Beibei Liu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Hurricane Sandy ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Damage Evaluation ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Changing Climate

Wind-related disasters will bring more devastating consequences to cities in the future with a changing climate, but relevant studies have so far provided insufficient information to guide adaptation actions. This study aims to provide an in-depth elaboration of the contents discussed in open access literature regarding wind disaster adaptation in cities. We used the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to refine topics and main contents based on 232 publications (1900 to 2019) extracted from Web of Science and Scopus. We conducted a full-text analysis to filter out focal cities along with their adaptation measures. The results show that wind disaster adaptation research in cities has formed a systematic framework in four aspects: 1) vulnerability and resilience of cities, 2) damage evaluation, 3) response and recovery, and 4) health impacts of wind disaster. Climate change is the background for many articles discussing vulnerability and adaptation in coastal areas. It is also embedded in damage evaluation since it has the potential to exacerbate disaster consequences. The literature is strongly inclined towards more developed cities such as New York City and New Orleans, among which New York City associated with Hurricane Sandy ranks first (38/232). Studies on New York City cover all the aspects, including the health impacts of wind disasters which are significantly less studied now. Distinct differences do exist in the number of measures regarding the adaptation categories and their subcategories. We also find that hard adaptation measures (i.e., structural and physical measures) are far more popular than soft adaptation measures (i.e., social and institutional measures). Our findings suggest that policymakers should pay more attention to cities that have experienced major wind disasters other than New York. They should embrace the up-to-date climate change study to defend short-term disasters and take precautions against long-term changes. They should also develop hard-soft hybrid adaptation measures, with special attention on the soft side, and enhance the health impact study of wind-related disasters.

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