Community Resilience to Drought Hazard in the South-Central United States

Volodymyr V. Mihunov, Nina S. N. Lam, Lei Zou, Robert V. Rohli, Nazla Bushra, Margaret A. Reams and Jennifer E. Argote

Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2018, vol. 108, issue 3, 739-755

Abstract: Drought is a hazard that inflicts costly damage to agricultural, hydrologic, and ecological systems and affects human health and prosperity. A comprehensive assessment of resilience to the drought hazard in various communities and an identification of the main variables that affect resilience is crucial to coping with the hazard and promoting resilience. This study assessed the community resilience to drought hazards of all 503 counties of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas using the resilience inference measurement (RIM) model for the period of 2000 to 2015. Through k-means cluster analysis, stepwise discriminant analysis (74.7 percent accuracy, 72.8 percent leave-one-out cross-validation accuracy), and regression analysis (adjusted R2 = 0.69), four variables (significant at p

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2017.1372177

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