Climate Hazards 5.05: Hazard Case Studies : Hurricane Harvey

Media Articles

• Irish Times: Petrol prices to rise 3c a litre due to Hurricane Harvey

• Rice University: After Hurricane Harvey, flood insurance created windfalls and fault lines for the middle class

• Texas Observer: How Disaster Recovery Overlooks the Poor

Research

• National Hurricane Centre report AL092017_Harvey

• Jonkman, S.N., Godfroy, M., Sebastian, A., and Kolen, B. 2018 Loss of life due to Hurricane Harvey. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 18, 1073–1078. doi: 10.5194/nhess-18-1073-2018

• Zhang, W., Villarini, G., Vecchi, G.A., and Smith, J.A. 2018 Urbanization exacerbated the rainfall and flooding caused by hurricane Harvey in Houston. Nature 563, 384–388. doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0676-z

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