Land, lava, and disaster create a social dilemma after the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea volcano

Bruce F Houghton; Wendy A Cockshell; Chris E Gregg; Brett H Walker; Karl Kim; Caroline M Tisdale; Eric Yamashita

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-21455-2

Land, lava, and disaster create a social dilemma after the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea volcano

Nat Commun. 2021 Feb 22;12(1):1223. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-21455-2.

Authors

Bruce F Houghton^{1

2}, Wendy A Cockshell^{3

4}, Chris E Gregg⁵, Brett H Walker³, Karl Kim^{4

6}, Caroline M Tisdale³, Eric Yamashita^{4

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI, USA. bhought@soest.hawaii.edu.
² National Disaster Preparedness Training Center, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI, USA. bhought@soest.hawaii.edu.
³ Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI, USA.
⁴ National Disaster Preparedness Training Center, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI, USA.
⁵ Department of Geosciences, Eastern Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, USA.
⁶ Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI, USA.

Abstract

The unprecedented cost of the 2018 eruption in Hawai’i reflects an intersection of disparate physical and social phenomena: widely spaced, highly destructive eruptions, and atypically high population growth. These were linked and the former indirectly drove the latter with unavoidable consequences.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.