Disaster management and climate change adaptation emerges as the greatest long term threats that are challenging overall development efforts of Bangladesh. Government of Bangladesh is playing a central role for disaster management and climate change adaptation. The Ministry of Food and Disaster Management ...
According to the International Disaster Database and IMF, disasters have been hitting the world continuously and has increased steadily since 1960 dipping only in the past decade. During the last decade of last millennium, natural disasters have killed about 6.7 million people, accounting for 88 ...
Emergency agencies (EA) rely on inter-agency approaches to information management during disasters. EA have shown a significant interest in the use of cloud-based social media such as Twitter and Facebook for crowd-sourcing and distribution of disaster information. While the intentions are clear, ...
Jos has witnessed a series of civil crises which have generated mass casualties that the Jos University Teaching Hospital has had to respond to from time to time. We review the challenges that we encountered in the management of the victims of the 2001 c
This book deals with the Disaster Management in India with its structure and challenges lurking to it. It also discusses the case studies of the two disasters which struck in two different regions in the last decade. The author has made random survey in the Kachcch (Gujarat) and Kawas ...
communication protocols, data routing mechanisms, and security considerations to highlight the intricacies involved in deploying UAVs for disaster monitoring. This article also underscores the significance of its contributions to the existing literature by providing a survey of the state-of-the art ...
recent national policies and guidelines, including Fiji’s Planned Relocation Guidelines (2018), the Displacement Guidelines in the Context of Climate Change and Disasters (2019), and Bangladesh’s National Strategy on the Management of Disaster and Climate Induced Internal Displacement (NSMDCIID) (...
The adoption of the Sendai Framework has given UN member nations a consistent structure to report these important disaster loss data and better understand disaster loss trends at a national level. Robust national-level disaster loss data is important for global risk assessments, risk management ...
management and leadership literature, Heifetz (1994, p. 76) distinguished among three situations: first, where there is clarity about both the nature of the problem and the likely solution; second, where the nature of the problem is clearly discerned, but the solutions are not—typically ...
(2003a) Beyond climate forecasting of flood disasters. Invited Lecture on the Opening Day of the Fifth Regional Training Course on Flood Risk Management (FRM-5) of the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (Bangkok) and the China Research Center on Flood and Drought Disaster Reduction, Beijing. ...