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Individual Resources, Social Environment, and Flood Victimization (open access)

Individual Resources, Social Environment, and Flood Victimization

The study is a contextual analysis of flood victimization. Victimization is defined as the social, psychological, and physiological aftermath experienced by victims of a disaster. Disaster researchers concentrate on the victims' characteristics to explain the varying degrees of their victimization, providing only ambiguous results. Theorists such as Kreps, Wildavsky, and Douglas contend that the outcomes of disasters are contingent upon social structure. This analysis treats victimization as one such outcome. The condition and behavior of individuals can be explained by the presence of disaster and the conditions of social organization. A model explains victimization based on individual's attributes (individual resources), his social environment, and the disaster characteristics. This study uses the 1984 Mingo Creek Flood Victims Survey data to test the model. The data contain information measuring victimization. The survey data are linked with 1980 Census tract data. The tract data provide indicators of the social networks. This tract information, the contextual variables, taps the social conditions, including poverty, unemployment, geographic mobility, and family patterns. This study uses factor analysis to identify the dimensions of victimization. Regression tests the relationship between the contextual variables, the individual resource variables, the disaster characteristic variables, and victimization. The results of the analysis show …
Date: May 1990
Creator: Rossman, Edwin J. (Edwin John)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

1990 Census County Block Map (Recreated): Cooke County, Index

Index map for Cooke County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:88,451.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

1990 Census County Block Map (Recreated): Hardeman County, Block 2

Parent map for Hardeman County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:27,500.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

1990 Census County Block Map (Recreated): Wichita County, Block 4

Parent map for Wichita County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:12,500.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

1990 Census County Block Map (Recreated): Montague County, Block 1

Parent map for Montague County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,500.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

1990 Census County Block Map (Recreated): Clay County, Block 6

Parent map for Clay County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,500.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

1990 Census County Block Map (Recreated): Clay County, Block 1

Parent map for Clay County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,500.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

1990 Census County Block Map (Recreated): Clay County, Index

Index map for Clay County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:106,132.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

1990 Census County Block Map (Recreated): Dallam County, Block 3

Parent map for Dallam County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:40,000.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

1990 Census County Block Map (Recreated): Ochiltree County, Block 2

Parent map for Ochiltree County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:24,000.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

1990 Census County Block Map (Recreated): Lamar County, Block 2

Parent map for Lamar County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,500.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

1990 Census County Block Map (Recreated): Bowie County, Block 2

Parent map for Bowie County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:15,000.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

1990 Census County Block Map (Recreated): Sherman County, Block 2

Parent map for Sherman County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:40,000.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

1990 Census County Block Map (Recreated): Hansford County, Block 1

Parent map for Hansford County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:24,000.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

1990 Census County Block Map (Recreated): Clay County, Block 3

Parent map for Clay County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,500.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

1990 Census County Block Map (Recreated): Hemphill County, Index

Index map for Hemphill County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:78,668.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

1990 Census County Block Map (Recreated): Dallam County, Block 2

Parent map for Dallam County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:40,000.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

1990 Census County Block Map (Recreated): Montague County, Index

Index map for Montague County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:88,452.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

1990 Census County Block Map (Recreated): Grayson County, Block 4

Parent map for Grayson County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:12,500.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

1990 Census County Block Map (Recreated): Hemphill County, Block 6

Parent map for Hemphill County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:24,000.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

1990 Census County Block Map (Recreated): Wheeler County, Index

Index map for Wheeler County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:76,483.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

1990 Census County Block Map (Recreated): Red River County, Block 4

Parent map for Red River County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:27,500.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

1990 Census County Block Map (Recreated): Ochiltree County, Block 3

Parent map for Ochiltree County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:24,000.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

1990 Census County Block Map (Recreated): Lamar County, Index

Index map for Lamar County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:88,452.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History