Risk Communication and the Community Response to a Bioterrorist Attack: the Role of an Internet-Based early warning system A.K.A “The Informal Sector”

<em>Evacuation system in Mount Merapi eruption area consist of evacuation component, such early warning system, meeting point, evacuation lane, evacuation route, barrack, communication and transportation. The role of the goverment is to give services for refugees who live in scenario evacuation area. But there are some constrains, for example damaged road, evacuation lane crossover the bridge, people don’t heard the early warning system and high density of barracks. Based on those phenomenons, this research objected is to measure the feasibility of Mount Merapi evacuation system in Sleman district by using qualitative and quantitative method. The results of this research, some of evacuation systems don’t have perfect score. Early warning system has score 49%, meeting point score 96,2%, evacuation lane 88,7%, evacuation route 100%, barracks 60,7%, transportation and communication 51,8%. From that components, the average score is 75% which means the system of evacuation in Mount Merapi Eruption Area not feasible yet.</em>

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The Complexities in Risk Communication for Flood Early Warning System in Nepal and India.

10.5194/egusphere-egu21-9871 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Gaurab Sagar Dawadi

Keyword(s):

Risk Communication ◽

Early Warning ◽

Mobile Applications ◽

Early Warning System ◽

Warning System ◽

Text Messages ◽

Web Based ◽

The People ◽

Vulnerable People ◽

Awareness Raising

<p>The Early Warning System (EWS)&#160; is recognized as a crucial mechanism for disaster risk reduction. Despite advances in technologies, the biggest shortcoming of EWS is that risk information is still failing to reach the people at risk in developing countries like Nepal and India. This presentation is based on the qualitative analysis of 90 interviews conducted for my Ph.D. thesis, in the Kosi River basin, across the Nepal-India border. Annually the Kosi River and its tributaries cause widespread flooding and inundation in Nepal and India. Recently, significant advancements have occurred in the sector of risk communication for Flood-EWS in Nepal and India. Government institutions use mobile text messages, web-based Apps, flood bulletins, and other measures to inform people about the flood. Despite the efforts, significant challenges were observed in the information outreach, especially to the women and vulnerable people living in the study area. Challenges were also identified in understanding the received text messages by flood vulnerable people, and spatially relating the information about river depth for their evacuation decision.&#160; Recommendations were made for inclusive and people-centered EWS based on Impact based forecasting as well as on awareness-raising activities through mobile applications.</p>

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The role of the African Union Continental Early Warning System in preventing mass atrocities

Africa and the Responsibility to Protect ◽

10.4324/9781315852126-21 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 170-190

Keyword(s):

Early Warning ◽

Early Warning System ◽

Warning System ◽

African Union

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A Patent Application for NEXTGEN Flood Early Warning System

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction ◽

10.1145/3463928 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (GROUP) ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

Robert Soden ◽

Nicolas James LaLone ◽

Dharma Dailey

Keyword(s):

Crisis Management ◽

Early Warning ◽

Early Warning System ◽

Patent Application ◽

Warning System ◽

Warning Systems ◽

Communication Tool ◽

Crisis Informatics ◽

Design Fiction

This design fiction re-imagines an important informational element of the flood early warning system in order to unpack some of the questionable assumptions that society makes about disaster. In presenting an updated, ironic, vision of an alternative system, we highlight some of the ways that received ideas about the root causes of disaster, who is responsible for public safety, and the role of private sector innovation, are so embedded in the design of technologies used in crisis management that they have become taken for granted. This work demonstrates the potential for design fiction to serve as a tool in the evaluation and critique of safety-critical information systems and as a communication tool for conveying the complex findings of disaster research. It also points to new avenues of exploration for crisis informatics work on public warning systems.

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The Early Warning System: how frontline evidence helps us understand the UK’s social security response to COVID-19

Journal of Poverty and Social Justice ◽

10.1332/175982721x16184951904307 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Katie Pybus ◽

Geoff Page ◽

Lynsey Dalton ◽

Ruth Patrick

Keyword(s):

Social Security ◽

Policy Change ◽

Low Income ◽

Early Warning ◽

Early Warning System ◽

Child Poverty ◽

Warning System ◽

Security Issues ◽

The Social

This article reports on the Child Poverty Action Group Early Warning System (EWS), a database of case studies representing social security issues reported directly by frontline benefits advice workers and benefit claimants. It outlines what data from the EWS can tell us about how the social security system is functioning and how it has responded during the pandemic. It further details how insights from the EWS can be used by researchers and policymakers seeking to understand the role of social security in supporting families living on a low income and in advocating for short- and longer-term policy change.

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Utilization of Mosque as A Part of Early Warning Systems to Reduce Flood Damage in Samarinda City, Indonesia

10.20944/preprints202103.0278.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Riyan Benny Sukmara ◽

Ray Shyan Wu

Keyword(s):

Early Warning ◽

Early Warning System ◽

Warning System ◽

Early Warning Systems ◽

Community Response ◽

Housing Demand ◽

Capital City ◽

Flood Event ◽

Warning Systems ◽

The Impact

Samarinda City is one of the most attractive cities in Borneo Island (Indonesia) and also as a capital city of EastBorneo Province. The expansion of urban areas becomes essential due to rapid population and housing demand. Base on the statistical report, the annual population growth rate is 0.018% from the year 2016-2017 with a total population of 843446 inhabitants. Many natural disasters occur in some areas in this city, especially flooding. This natural disaster occurs almost every year, many people suffered and forced to evacuate. In 2018 there is 3 flood event with 28311 people was suffered and evacuated, and 5170 houses were flooded [1]. During the flood event, it was very possible to gain damages to their property and make traffic stuck. One common way to reducing the damages is using Early Warning Systems (EWS). Early warning is a major element for disaster risk reduction, including damages. To prevent and mitigate the impact of a disaster, many countries had taken action to build various methods of a public warning system. An effective early warning system focused on people-centered and comprises the following element, such as risk knowledge, technical monitoring and service, communication and dissemination of warnings, and community response capability [2]. Related to the existing condition which Samarinda is a Muslim-dominated city and obviously has a lot of a number of mosques. This is a good potency to develop an early warning system because every mosque has a loudspeaker for echoing Adzan (Muslim prayer-calling). With this existing condition, the loudspeaker can be utilized as a flood outdoor-voice warning announcer. The aim of this study is to briefly introduce the strategy of dissemination early warning by utilizing mosques. The hope of early warning dissemination is giving enough time to the people to evacuate their property to reduce damages and possibly to giving information to avoiding traffic stuck (in a certain location)due to flooding. The results of this study can be used as input for decision-makers to develop effective flood management strategies and policies, especially in the case of an early warning system where not well-developed in Samarinda.

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