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Haddow, George D.; Bullock, Jane A.; Coppola, Damon P.

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“…It is, however, possible to reduce the effects of these events through management strategies focused on risk reduction [6]. Citizen preparedness strategies play a key role in reducing the effects of hazards that cannot be mitigated [6–8], as such strategies seek to improve the ability of individuals and communities to respond in the event of a natural disaster [7].…”

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Natural disaster preparedness in a multi-hazard environment: Characterizing the sociodemographic profile of those better (worse) prepared

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The growing multi-hazard environment to which millions of people in the world are exposed highlights the importance of making sure that populations are increasingly better prepared. The objective of this study was to report the levels of preparedness of a community exposed to two natural hazards and identify the primary sociodemographic characteristics of groups with different preparedness levels. A survey was conducted on 476 participants from two localities of the Atacama Region in the north of Chile during the spring of 2015. Their level of preparedness at home and work was assessed to face two types of natural hazards: earthquakes and floods.The findings show that participants are significantly better prepared to face earthquakes than floods, which sends a serious warning to local authorities, given that floods have caused the greatest human and material losses in the region’s recent history of natural disasters. Men claimed to be more prepared than women to face floods, something that the authors attribute to the particular characteristics of the main employment sectors for men and women in the region. The potential contribution of large companies on preparedness levels of communities in the areas in which they operate is discussed. The sociodemographic profile of individuals with the highest levels of preparedness in an environment with multiple natural hazards are people between 30 and 59 years of age, living with their partner and school-age children. The implications of the results pertaining to institutions responsible for developing disaster risk reduction plans, policies and programs in a multi-hazard environment are discussed.

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“…The range of negative consequences caused by disasters can potentially weaken a community’s overall well-being, even for long periods of time, and such impacts usually exceed the ability of the affected community or society to cope by only using its own resources [2]. There are four stages in the disaster management cycle: preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation [3,4]. Traditionally, the aim of disaster management is to significantly reduce the potential losses due to hazards and ensure that the victims of disasters receive the appropriate assistance and recover from the impacts rapidly and effectively [5].…”

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Resilience of an Earthquake-Stricken Rural Community in Southwest China: Correlation with Disaster Risk Reduction Efforts

Cui

Han

Wang

2018

IJERPH

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Disaster risk reduction (DRR) activities have given growing attention to building community resilience, but the effects of such efforts on community resilience are still under-investigated, especially in China where the concept of community resilience has only just emerged. Using the Communities Advancing Resilience Toolkit Assessment Survey, data on self-perceived community resilience were collected in 2017 from a post-disaster Chinese rural community in Yingxiu Town, which was the epicenter of the Wenchuan earthquake (Magnitude = 8.0) in the year 2008. Linear regression analyses were conducted to explore the correlations between residents’ DRR behaviors and perceived community resilience with the control of their socio-demographic characteristics including age, ethnicity, gender, education, income level, employment status and marital status. Results indicate that residents who volunteered for DRR activities, received geological disaster education, participated in evacuation drills, and reported higher income levels had a perception of higher community resilience. Practice research is suggested to help clarify the cause and effect of DRR work on the enhancement of community resilience to disasters in China and abroad. Attention is also called to the development of a Chinese indigenous community resilience concept and assessment instrument.

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“…The premise and foundation of disaster prevention, mitigation and rescue is to uniformly express and manage the information of urban fire incidents, and utilize observation data to model the dynamic process. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), emergency management is divided into four phases: disaster mitigation, preparedness, emergency response, and recovery, and the whole process is dynamic (Haddow, 2003). However, China currently adopts the "one case, three systems" emergency management system.…”

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Eml Based Urban Fire Incident Modeling Method and Prototype

Wang

et al. 2020

ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Abstract. Urban fire disasters are one of the most frequent disasters that threaten public safety and social development in cities. Most urban fire disasters feature dynamics and processes. The locations, time, meteorological conditions and surroundings of each fire incidents are diverse, besides the traffic conditions around the fire place would be changing dynamically. At present, there is no unified modeling language to describe urban fire incidents, which makes it difficult to obtain experience from historical cases and hard to describe. This paper used the Event pattern Markup Language (EML) to model urban fire incidents from an observation perspective based on MetaObject Facility (MOF) framework, designed and implemented an urban fire incident modeling prototype. It can realize the information description of urban fire disasters, and provide descriptions of different observation missions during the process of the fire incidents. The detailed description of the process allows multiple observations based on the expression of EML to be performed, and offer evidence for emergency response phase and post-mortem archiving. The real data of the "12.1" major fire in Tianjin, China in 2017 was used as a use-case to show the modeling results of the entire fire incident in four phases – mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. The results show that this modeling method proposed in this paper can represent the dynamic information of urban fire incidents and achieve the dynamic modeling of urban fire incidents.

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Natural disaster preparedness in a multi-hazard environment: Characterizing the sociodemographic profile of those better (worse) prepared

Natural disaster preparedness in a multi-hazard environment: Characterizing the sociodemographic profile of those better (worse) prepared

Resilience of an Earthquake-Stricken Rural Community in Southwest China: Correlation with Disaster Risk Reduction Efforts

Eml Based Urban Fire Incident Modeling Method and Prototype

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