Natural hazards are naturally occurring processes forming an experience to human being, depending on where one lives. Floods, volcanoes, tornadoes, bushfires and hurricanes are the possible threats, which affect the environment and thus our lives. To find out the outcome of the problem, it ...
SARAJEVO, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- An international multi-day civilian NATO exercise aimed to manage the consequences of natural disasters on Monday in Tuzla, a city some 120 km northeast of Bosnia and Herzegovina's (BiH) capital Sarajevo. The five-day-long exercise, dubbed "Bosnia and Herzegovi...
This handbook is a ready reference guide for those actively involved with management of natural disasters before, during, and after disaster situations in developing member countries. It draws upon disaster management practices in Asia and the Pacific and endeavors to relate realistically to the needs...
The incidence of natural, as well as related environmental disasters, has increased in the 1990s. In 1999 alone, there were more than 700 disasters with widespread economic and social damage leading to the death of approximately 100,000 people. When disasters strike, the poor and socially disadva...
With the economic development and the accelerated expansion of production and social wealth,the losses caused by disasters are becoming increasingly serious,and the emergency communications work directly impacts on the notification of disaster information and the implementation of relief work.Hence,according...
The RMI method was first proposed by Cardona et al. (2004). It was later modified and applied periodically to measure performance of risk management of natural disasters in countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (Cardona et al.2005; Carreño et al.2007; Cãrdona and Carreño2011)....
Tools required to trigger, manage and execute the Red Cross Early Action Protocols for natural disasters. aadisaster-managementred-crossdisaster-responsedisaster-prepareearly-action-protocolimpact-based-forecasting UpdatedJan 14, 2025 TypeScript Kontur Platform API Gateway ...
It is the human activity that aggravates the mountain disasters and environment deterioration. Therefore, during the process of social and economic development, regulating human behaviour, reasonably utilizing and protecting natural resources and environment by means of controlling the human approach, i.e...
The high frequency of natural disasters in our country is the main factor that makes the anti-poverty task still very arduous,especially in rural poor areas.Therefore,deeply analyses the disaster problem and put forward the concrete disaster risk management countermeasures will play the key role for...
Research for efficiently planning and responding to natural disasters is of vital interest due to the devastating effects and losses caused by their occurrence, including economic deficiency, casualties, and infrastructure damage. Following the large breadth of natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina ...