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Flash floods can be regarded as an apical natural hazard in many countries that eminently affect the safety of the human lives, precious belongings, livestock and agricultural farming land. Variety of techniques like engineering (construction of dams and reservoirs) and nonengineering (prior investigation of flash floods) has been advanced to forecast the run offs. An efficient disaster management...
In dealing with chaotic condition during disasters, speedy and accurate response is an important task. One of critical concerns in disaster situation is the separation of family members because of high people movement in natural disaster evacuation. An important humanitarian action for that situation is tracking refugees so that they can be reunited with their families. We have designed a system for...
The paper found some problems by research of tourism administration in Si Chuan when dealing with 512 WenChuan Earthquake, which include both confused management system and misunderstanding of disaster risk management concept. It showed that earthquake forecasting or prediction is essentially a misconception in earthquake disaster reduction by extensive analyzing both from the theory and the practice...
The establishment of a very strong and effective disaster management system is an urgent need of Pakistan, as it is badly suffering from both natural and man-made disasters. In this paper, we propose a new methodology for improving the disaster management system of Pakistan by the implementation of digital ecosystems. Firstly, we discuss the existing disaster management system followed by the current...
Emergency evacuation planning is essential in disaster management. Numerous evacuation model and optimization algorithms have been developed and implemented for various types of emergencies mainly in natural and man-made disaster. This paper reviews such approaches focusing on macroscopic in emergency evacuation planning. The strength and weaknesses of algorithms and models are described. Variables...
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