natural disaster Articles

Impact of natural disaster on the national economies in China

The development of human society is accompanied by changes in the natural environment. Existence of natural disaster affects human society consequentially. Along with the advance of human society the relationship between mankind and nature becomes more consanguineous and complex. In addition the damage due to natural disaster becomes more and more serious. In order to strengthen the consciousness ...

Jun. 30, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers
Natural disaster and financial risk management

This paper explores and discusses the financial issues faced by firms in a natural disaster. It introduces the disaster risk environment and the factors that affect the operations of a firm. The implications of a natural disaster in terms of unsystematic and systematic risks, investment evaluation, strategic investment, and risk and compliance are addressed. It provides a framework to analyse the ...

Nov. 18, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers
Households' choice on reconstruction of a damaged house after an earthquake: characteristics of decisions and effects of subsidies

Reconstruction of damaged houses plays a critical role in revitalisation of a region after natural disasters. In this study, households' choices on reconstruction of damaged houses were surveyed. Surveyed areas were the damaged areas of Tottori-Seibu Earthquake (2000) and Miyagi-Hokubu Earthquake (2003) in Japan. Using survey data, discrete choice models on households' actual and hypothetical ...

Jun. 30, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers
Technology in the aftermath of a hurricane

There is nothing like a natural disaster to get you thinking about technology. Early in the week of September 8, 2008, Ike grew to tropical storm strength and headed into the Gulf of Mexico. At one point, six computer models predicted six different paths. Under mandatory evacuation orders, we left on the morning of September 12 when Ike threatened to produce a Tsunami-like storm surge of up to 20 ...

Dec. 1, 2008

By Lexicon Systems, LLC
Some critical success factors in planning humanitarian relief operations in India

India is prone to natural disasters due to its unique geo-climatic conditions. Response and relief are usually ad hoc and poorly managed. Although a single set of reasons cannot be made out, lack of institutional mechanism, lower preparedness levels, absence of any performance evaluation and minimal community involvement have been often blamed. What remains unanswered is “Why are the same ...

Dec. 5, 2014

By Inderscience Publishers
Review of emergency management related to the Wenchuan earthquake: a special section

Earthquakes are among the most terrifying and destructive natural disasters threatening humans. As the Wenchuan earthquake in China of May 2008 turned out to be one of the most severe threats to people's lives, with the number of dead being more than 80,000, we have to study the lessons from the earthquake disaster as an opportunity to better prepare ourselves for future disasters. This paper ...

Nov. 18, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers
The importance of heritage preservation in natural disaster situations

Natural disasters impact on the human-created environment. Affected are both the general built environment as well as those few places that a community cherishes as representing their past achievements, aspirations and tribulations ? their cultural heritage sites. Natural disasters are localised events and have the ability to cause extensive loss and destruction to a community's cultural ...

Jul. 24, 2007

By Inderscience Publishers
Chapter 1 - natural and human-made disasters

Natural disasters, or "Acts of God", according to conventional wisdom, are unpredictable and unpreventable, whereas human-made disasters, or "Acts of Man", are taken to be both predictable and preventable. Furthermore, "Acts of Man", are perceived as more catastrophic and destructive than "Acts of God". The fact is, these commonly accepted perceptions, ...

Feb. 10, 2004

By Inderscience Publishers
Site selection for emergency supplies storage facilities under natural disasters: an approach based on location theory

Locating emergency supplies storage facilities is critical in the preparation phase of emergency management, and it also provides urgent protection when natural disasters strike. An appropriate location can greatly reduce the loss or damage caused by disasters. This paper applies the Location Theory to locate emergency supplies storage facilities combined with the characteristics of locating ...

Dec. 5, 2014

By Inderscience Publishers
The role of mangroves in disaster mitigation: a review

The aim of this paper is to study the role played by mangrove ecosystems in minimising the impact of disasters like tsunami, floods and cyclones. A comparison of the studies concerning effective mitigation of tsunami and natural disasters by mangrove ecosystems was carried out for countries with special focus on India. A study about the role of mangroves across various states in India is also ...

Sep. 24, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers
Capacity building approaches to emergency management in rural communities: recommendations from survivors of the British Columbia Wildfires, 2003

This paper responds to the ongoing calls within emergency management for more community-driven and capacity building approaches to the response to and recovery from natural disasters. Moving from the rhetoric of community-driven approaches to the practice, this paper highlights and draws on specific practice recommendations made by residents in two rural Canadian communities affected by a ...

Jun. 8, 2007

By Inderscience Publishers
When natural disasters strike: managing individual and organisational needs with web–based systems

Increased impacts and frequency of recent natural disasters have given rise to the need for finding new ways to enhance disaster preparedness, planning and management. Web–based information systems have demonstrated the usefulness of websites in recent disasters. However, little is known about the contents of web–based information management for disaster management and the needs and ...

Apr. 5, 2013

By Inderscience Publishers
Probabilistic resilience for building systems exposed to natural disasters

Resilience engineering requires understanding a system's capability to anticipate and absorb threats, take actions to reduce their adverse consequences, and develop response and recovery actions for the system to resume its normal operation quickly. A resilience quantification approach is very helpful in disaster risk research for comparing different mitigation strategies, selecting the most ...

Dec. 18, 2014

By Inderscience Publishers
Role improvising during crisis situations

This research describes the various ways key responders improvise their disaster-related roles during the emergency period of large-scale crises. Using archival data from the University of Delaware's Disaster Research Center in the USA, this paper presents an empirically-derived classification of role improvisations occurring in natural disasters, technological crises, and civil disturbances. ...

Sep. 21, 2004

By Inderscience Publishers
Mapping the impacts of recent natural disasters and technological accidents in Europe

This is the first EEA publication to address the impacts of natural disasters and technological accidents across Europe. Focusing on major events between 1998 and 2002, the report adds value to existing studies by bringing together available information on their human and economic costs and adding the environmental perspective. The impacts of these events are documented ...

Jan. 1, 2004

By European Environment Agency (EEA)
Heritage managers and their attitudes towards disaster management for cultural heritage resources in New South Wales, Australia

The study of disaster management has broadened its scope to include matters beyond the physical processes. Cultural heritage resources, which are particularly vulnerable to the effects of natural disasters, are inherently linked with our identity and can assist the community in achieving some sense of normalcy after a disaster. While protection of life and property will always be priority, items ...

Oct. 20, 2006

By Inderscience Publishers
Devastation hits Japan

Without a doubt, you will have, at some point this weekend, been glued to your TV screens watching images, video clips and listening to the disaster as it unfolds in Japan. The earthquake was the biggest to hit Japan, measuring 8.8, causing widespread destruction. The environmental impact of such a disaster will have catastrophic consequences for the country. There are thousands of earthquakes ...

Mar. 14, 2011

By IMSM Ltd
Road network unreliability: impact assessment and mitigation

Road transport network reliability has recently become important, with the increasing emphasis on 'just-in-time' production methods and reducing the impacts of natural disasters (e.g., earthquakes, tsunamis). This has led to increased efforts to mitigate the impacts of disruption of road transport networks, and the inclusion of changes in network reliability in economic appraisals of road network ...

Jun. 22, 2007

By Inderscience Publishers
How can insurance benefit from more effective training programmes: the case of behavioural mitigation

The emergence of a broader spectrum of vulnerabilities (industrial accident, terrorism, sabotage, local conflict, natural disaster) seriously challenges the traditional approach to financing major risks and catastrophes. It is often said that insurance is a way of spreading risk and a way of encouraging investments in protective measures to reduce the likelihood of, and potential losses from, a ...

Jan. 1, 2006

By Inderscience Publishers
Oklahoma Strengthens and Streamlines Crisis Management with ESS

Year after year, the Oklahoma Department of Civil Emergency Management (OEM) faces a host of hazards, ranging from seasonal natural disasters to major industrial or transportation accidents, and the list of potential threats continues to grow. Most notably, OEM was on the front lines during America’s response to the terrorist bombing at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City ...

Jan. 1, 2005

By IHS Markit

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