Melanie Gall

Select Publications

CEMHS. 2022. The Spatial Hazard Events and Losses Database for the United States (SHELDUS) Version 21 [online database]. Available at sheldus.org.

Gall, M., T. Sheldon, and L. Collins. 2022. The economic impact of disaster-related school closures. Risks, Hazards, and Crisis in Public Policy. https://doi.org/10.1002/rhc3.12242

Gall, M. and Carol J. Friedland. 2020. If Mitigation Saves $6 Per Every $1 Spent, Then Why Are We Not Investing More? A Louisiana Perspective on a National Issue. Natural Hazards Review 21(1). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000342

de Sherbinin, A., A. Bukvic, G. Rohat, M. Gall, B. McCusker, B. Preston, A. Apotsos, C. Fish, S. Kienberger, P. Muhonda, O. Wilhelmi, D. Macharia, W. Shubert, R. Sliuzas, B. Tomaszewski, and S. Zhang. 2019. Climate change vulnerability mapping: a systematic review and recommendations for the future. WIREs Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.600

Cutter, S. L., & Gall, M. (2015). Sendai targets at risk. Nature Climate Change, 5(8), 707-709.

Gall, M., Nguyen, K. H., & Cutter, S. L. (2015). Integrated research on disaster risk: Is it really integrated?. International journal of disaster risk reduction, 12, 255-267.

Gall, M., Borden, K. A., Emrich, C. T., & Cutter, S. L. (2011). The unsustainable trend of natural hazard losses in the United States. Sustainability, 3(11), 2157-2181.

Gall, M., Borden, K. A., & Cutter, S. L. (2009). When do losses count? Six fallacies of natural hazards loss data. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90(6), 799-810.

Gall, M. (2007). Indices of social vulnerability to natural hazards: a comparative evaluation (Doctoral dissertation, University of South Carolina).