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Disaster Management (DM) is the management of resources and responsibilities for dealing with all humanitarian aspects of emergencies, in terms of rescue, relief and rehabilitation. The development in the field of Natural Disaster Management (NDM) in India has been ongoing since almost three decades, but the one formulated a decade ago has been more diligently active and enterprising in carrying out...
The role of small-group discussion in disaster risk management is to create concrete and practical plans that include regional information. A facilitator is required to encourage residents to reveal such regional information through discussion. However, it is unclear how the facilitator contributes to a fruitful discussion. This study is designed to identify the topics discussed by residents in small-group...
Despite comprehensive disaster management mechanisms, civic networks, technological and institutional impact on Malaysians affected by disasters remain little understood. This study has empirically responded to recent calls for civic networks in mediating disaster preparedness and it's two other critical factors: technological support and institutional support. Lack of civic network imperatives (trust,...
Nowadays, the number of disaster and other crisis situations are growing, and the tasks of the Hungarian Defence Forces are significant. The National Disaster Management is the most important organization, but the Hungarian Defence Forces possess special equipment, and technical devices, so they take part in these situations as the other organizations like Law Enforcement, Hungarian Ambulance Services,...
The open data movement has led us into immensely useful applications and innovations for decision making, both for individual citizen as well as government. This study aims to create a web application called BencanaVis which provide innovative visualization of disaster government open data using Shiny, a web framework from R programming language. The datasets being used are available from Indonesian...
This paper explores how organizational processes are recreated following their destruction in unexpected disasters. It applies the notion of an organization as a capital conversion and capital creation system. It also focuses on systems resilience, the measure of a system's persistence and ability to absorb disturbances while reconstructing relationships between system entities. Based on the analysis...
Disasters are sudden and calamitous events that can cause severe and pervasive negative impacts on society and huge human losses. Governments and humanitarian organizations have been putting tremendous efforts to avoid and reduce the negative consequences due to disasters. In recent years, information technology and big data have played an important role in disaster management. While there has been...
The strongest land falling cyclone, typhoon Haiyan, left in its wake a great need for the government to have a means to monitor damages and manage relief, recovery and rehabilitation efforts. The Intelligent Operations Center for Emergency Management (IOC-EM) was built to address the needs of the Philippine government in the response, recovery and rehabilitation of the affected areas not only of a...
Malaysia experienced flood on a regular basis due to the geographical location of the country and the improper development of its cities. Based on this situation, it is recognized that Malaysia have to establish an effective flood management (FM) practice in order to reduce the impact caused by flood. This article seeks to examine the proper governance framework needed in managing flood. The aim of...
Countries all around the world are spurring their effort for the improvement of disaster-management systems in order to minimize human and economic losses resulting from disasters. In general, governments of developed countries have been providing advanced disaster prevention services to their citizens by integrating diverse systems/resources, while governments of developing countries have sought...
Twitter demonstrated its value as a viable substitute to traditional communication channels during the recent disasters. However, little is written about Twitter in government for an early disaster warning system. In this exploratory empirical research, we aim to address the question: How does the government use Twitter to inform the public about disaster hazards and vulnerability? Case study and...
According to both the US Geological Survey and the World Bank, $280 billion dollars could have been saved if $40 billion dollars had been invested in disaster prevention. Natural and human-made disasters that have occurred over the last few years show that there is a gap in disaster prevention caused by the interconnected nature of risks, which cannot be foreseen with current risk management methods...
When disaster strikes communities are disrupted, lives are lost, properties wrecked and the socio-economic fabric of societies are tossed into havoc. Assistance may pour in, but effective regulations to govern the chaotic conditions are necessary to coordinate efforts by different organizations to cooperate, giving them authority to render assistance to help the community to recover. Malaysia has...
According to the case of large crowd being stranded at transportation hubs (such as bus station, railway station, airport, etc.) in climate disasters, a model is designed to represent passengers' transferring among transportation hubs on the basis of herd behavior. Bayesian network and influence diagram are used in model to capture essential features of the passenger's decision-making process, then...
Today's society is exposed to an increasing number of disasters and large scale emergencies (e.g. earthquake in Haiti, global swine flu, or manmade disasters like the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico). Information and communication technology (ICT) can help to prevent and mitigate the effects of threatening situations if applied appropriately. In industry ICT governance methods have become important...
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...
The Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM) initiative was started by members of INCOSE and the OMG to create a standard profile for DoDAF and MODAF. Although the main goal was to create a standard UML profile for DoDAF and MODAF, UPDM fulfills other goals as well. The standardized format decreases training requirements as well as providing a standard display format, thus improving communication...
While geographic information systems (GIS) can provide information on the static locations of critical infrastructure and evacuation routes, they do not provide the dynamically changing locations of things and people on the move. In contrast, radio frequency identification (RFID) wireless network technology can automatically identify and track the movement of assets (i.e., fire engines, ambulances,...
The sustainable development of cities has become an important part of social sustainable development. Because of the nonlinear and complicated characteristics of urban disasters, it is necessary to adopt new concepts and research methods, and design comprehensive, holistic, and integrated urban management models. The article points out the three main subsystems of an urban disaster management system,...
Emergency management of food safety accidents is one field that emergency academics and practices have put emphasis on in the recent years. Sanlu milk powder scandal, an extraordinarily large food safety accident occurring on September, 2008, raised questions about emergency management model for improving the performance in emergency management of food safety accidents. This paper aims to construct...
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