Melanie Gall

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Cutter, S.L., Gall, M., & Rubin, C. (eds.). (2025). U.S. Emergency Management in the 21st century: from disaster to catastrophe. 2nd edition. Routledge.

• Gall, M. Not Enough Water: Drought Emergencies in the American Southwest. In US Emergency Management in the 21st Century (pp. 143-160). Routledge.
• Clark, S. S., & Gall, M. From Phoenix to Buffalo: Experiences with Extreme Temperature. In US Emergency Management in the 21st Century (pp. 122-140). Routledge.
• Cutter, S. L., Gall, M., & Rubin, C. B. Foreshadowing the Future: What is Looming on the Horizon?. In US Emergency Management in the 21st Century (pp. 221-233). Routledge.

Ritchie, L. A., Cutter, S. L., Campbell, N., & Gall, M. (2025). The New Vulnerable: Changing Contexts of Food Insecurity in the United States. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 67(1), 45–58. https://doi.org/10.1080/00139157.2024.2419318

CEMHS. (2024). The Spatial Hazard Events and Losses Database for the United States (SHELDUS) Version 23 [online database]. Available at sheldus.org.

Gall, M. (2024). Katastrophenmanagement und soziale Dienste. Sozialmagazin 9-10/2024.

Gall, M., Li, P., & Friedland, C. J. (2024). Strategic Hazard Mitigation Planning. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 114, 104923. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104923

Mostafiz, R. B., Al Assi, A. S., Friedland, C. J., Rahim, M. A., Rohli, R. V., Emrich, C. T., & Gall, M. (2023, December). Empowering Resilient Communities: The Flood Risk and Mitigation Calculator Tool for Informed Decision-Making. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2023, pp. NH21A-07).

Gall, M., Sheldon, T., & Collins, L. (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. & Friedland, C. J. (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

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

Gall, M. (2015). The Suitability of Disaster Loss Databases to Measure Loss and Damage from Climate Change. International Journal of Global Warming 8(2), 170-190. 

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.