Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) in the Philippines in 2013 also appears in Table 1, with questions of whether storm forecasts were understood correctly by the public and weather response capability was sufficient. Table 2 contains the three costliest disasters of the 21st century, which are also storms:...
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“Now, the public health Nazis are transferring their first big lie about what happened in India back to the Western world…” You said “Nazis”? Ashke.Nazi? * The truth about Galileo and his conflict with the Catholic Church – AGAIN, A LIE (as many others) TO DISCREDIT THE CATHOLIC...
Research on fairness in machine learning (ML) has been largely focusing on individual and group fairness. With the adoption of ML-based technologies as ass
Disaster preparedness plans reduce future damages, but may lack testing to assess their effectiveness in operation. This study used the state-designed Loca
(Fig.A1). This happened mainly because key stakeholders shared concern over increasing flood risks because of rapid urbanization and conducted countermeasures in a collaborative way (Fig.A2). The river office of the national government implemented the river works of widening and deepening the channels...
The series of participatory activities (Table1) conducted with local people included participatory mapping (mapping people’s knowledge about their current capacities related to livelihoods and hazards); an historical timeline (what has happened in the past to track changes in the environment, livelihood...
All of these are essential for DRR in the Asian context, as between 1975 and 2011, 75 % of the disaster deaths happened in Asia (UNESCAP and UNISDR 2012). Scientific data and information, and their linkages with policies and decision making across the public, private, and voluntary sectors,...
In 2020, many Asian countries were impacted by large-scale disasters amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Powerful typhoons, including Vongfong (Ambo) in May, Hagupit (Dindo) in July, Molave (Quinta) and Goni (Rolly) in October, and Vamco (Ulysses) in November impacted the Philippines. Cyclone ...
Very often both prejudices, the non-expert prejudice and the colonial prejudice, operate together in contexts of disasters. To show this, let me introduce a particularly illustrative example of what happened following the 1999 Taiwan disaster. The event, known as the ‘most catastrophic’ in the ...