and most recently Ukraine in 2022. We've worked in refugee camps for Sudanese in Kenya and Angolans in Zambia, and in the slums of Manila, Yangon, Dar es Salaam and Veracruz. We're on faculty in several locations and have taught courses in disaster management and disaster medicine at inst...
Community tribal elders in Kenya and Tanzania communicate impending natural hazards by playing or beating a mortar and sounding drumbeats and horns to produce specific tunes. After recognizing the tunes/sound, the local and indigenous populace respond following pre-known local guidelines [52]. Such c...
the potential of this information to better support disaster risk management is coming into increased scrutiny. Disaster risk management actions are commonly divided into the different steps of the disaster management cycle, which include: prevention, to minimize future losses; preparedness and crisis man...
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The implication of this research work can be a potential contribution to various applications in this domain, such as disaster management systems, disaster or emergency alert systems, emergency response for institutes and agencies, etc. In the future, the use of manually created static dictionaries ...