Lessons Learned from the Recent Natural Disasters in Indonesia

2016 ◽

pp. 494-515 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Michael R. Mabe

Keyword(s):

Emergency Management ◽

Natural Disasters ◽

Hurricane Katrina ◽

Disaster Relief ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Hurricane Irene ◽

Management Professionals ◽

Chesterfield County ◽

The Impact ◽

Effective Reaction

According to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned (2006), emergency management professionals realized first-hand that preplanning and coordination is essential when mounting an effective reaction to natural disasters. This chapter describes how leaders in Chesterfield County, VA learned similar lessons in 2001 during Hurricane Irene. In comparison to Katrina the amount of damage caused by Irene was minimal but the impact on county leaders was severe. Based on lessons learned during Irene and an unexpected wind storm nine months later, Chesterfield County leaders now include the Chesterfield County Public (CCPL) in their official disaster relief plans. When activated, CCPL will serve as an information hub, double as a daytime relief shelter and participate in mass feeding if necessary. Selected library branches are available to be used as overnight relief shelters for mass care when the activation of a standard sized shelter facility is not warranted. These changes have made a notable difference.

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(P1-30) Natural Disasters Challenge for Emergency and Rescue Services - Lessons Learned

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine ◽

10.1017/s1049023x11003621 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 26 (S1) ◽

pp. s108-s108

Author(s):

P.W. Gula ◽

E.M. Szafran

Keyword(s):

Natural Disasters ◽

Emergency Response ◽

Communication Systems ◽

Large Scale ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Local Response ◽

Rescue Services ◽

Regional Coordination ◽

Road Systems ◽

And Control

Natural disasters challenge for Emergency and Rescue Services- lessons learned Przemyslaw Gula MD PhD, Edyta Szafran Institute for Emergency Medicine. Krakow, Poland.In the period 2008–2010 Poland experienced series of natural disasters including 3 large scales flooding, 2 periods of extremely high snowfalls followed by low temperature periods and finally local flush flooding in different locations. The time of each disaster elapsed from several days up to 6 weeks. All of them had severe impact on local infrastructure by destroying road systems, communication as well as healthcare and fire brigade facilities. The rescue efforts required evacuation, Search and Rescue operations, providing medical care and shelter. The most problems occurred in following areas: - large scale evacuation - collapse of communication systems (including 112 dispatch) - inadequate number of specialized rescue equipment (helicopters, vehicles, boats, snowmobiles, etc.) - providing EMS in affected areas - necessity of evacuating hospitals. The lessons learned showed the need for following changes: - strong trans regional coordination in means of facilitation of utilizing civil protection and military recourses - unification of operative procedures for all actors of the response operation - improvement of communication systems and reducing their vulnerability on environmental factors - establishing regional crisis management and control centers, covering the emergency response activities in affected areas - need of large-scale use of HEMS as well as Police and military helicopters in natural disasters - need for better supply in specialized rescue equipment including recue motorboats, 4 wheels drive recue vehicles and ambulances, snowmobiles, quads in local response units. The main rule of commanding the entire operation is subsidiary. Local coordinating structures should be supported by regional and central governments by supplying necessary recourses. However the operational command should be unified and include all participating units and organizations.

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Business Continuity Plan (BCP)

Journal of Disaster Research ◽

10.20965/jdr.2012.p0343 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 343-343

Author(s):

Kenji Watanabe

Keyword(s):

Natural Disasters ◽

Large Scale ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Management Systems ◽

Business Continuity ◽

Corporate Value ◽

Special Issue ◽

The Past ◽

New Findings ◽

Management Approaches

Among the lessons learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake, there were a large number of new findings, including which preparations functioned as planned and which did not. Now that a year has elapsed since the earthquake disaster, the parties concerned need to reexamine those measures which are yet to be implemented since we should not see the same results after a large scale disaster in the future as those we saw in the past. In this JDR Special Issue on Business Continuity Plan (BCP), I tried to ask for papers not only from academia but also from business fields to make this issue practical and useful to be leveraged for our next steps in preparing for incoming disasters. As a result, this issue obtains papers from various fields from academia to financial businesses and also with several different approaches which includes actual real case studies. Many of papers in this issue focus on intangible part of business continuity activities that is different from the traditional disaster management approaches which have mainly focused on tangibles or hardware reinforcement against natural disasters. Recent wide-area disasters taught us the importance of intangibles and we should start discussions more in details with aspects such as corporate value, emergency transportation & logistics, training & exercises, funding arrangement, and management systems. I hope that discussions and insights in this issue will help our discussions and actions to move forward. Finally, I really thank the authors’ insightful contributions and the referees’ intensive professional advices to make this JDR Special Issue valuable to our society in preparing for incoming disasters.

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(P1-4) Building Resilient Extended-Care Facilities during Natural Disasters – Lessons Learned From the 2007 Tulsa, Oklahoma Ice Storm

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine ◽

10.1017/s1049023x11003360 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 26 (S1) ◽

pp. s100-s100

Author(s):

C.E. Stewart ◽

J. Gulden

Keyword(s):

Natural Disasters ◽

Healthcare Systems ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Ice Storm ◽

Power Outages ◽

Public Health Response ◽

System Failures ◽

South Central ◽

Extended Care ◽

Care Facilities

Building Resilient Extended-Care Facilities During Natural Disasters – Lessons Learned from the 2007 Tulsa, Oklahoma Ice Storm. In the last decade, increasing importance has been placed on building resiliency into critical healthcare systems. This has meant shifting the paradigm from focusing on response to one of preparedness. In 2007, an ice storm as part of a series of winter storms occurred in the south central United States causing extensive power outages, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for a period of up to 3 weeks. Five of the six tertiary care hospitals in Tulsa suffered power outages, phone system failures or oxygen and/or suctioning system failures. Local water treatment plants were without power for 48 hours. During this time, multiple extended-care (nursing home) patients were discharged to homes or transferred to hospitals because the nursing homes were not prepared to cope with an extended power outage. This paper is a retrospective analysis and discussion of lessons learned with respect to the vulnerability of these extended-care healthcare systems and the public health response during natural disasters.

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The impact of climate change and natural disasters on food security in Indonesia: lessons learned on preserving forests sustainability

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science ◽

10.1088/1755-1315/886/1/012090 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 886 (1) ◽

pp. 012090

Author(s):

L R E Malau ◽

A T Darhyati ◽

Suharno

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Food Security ◽

Natural Disasters ◽

Food Prices ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Food Distribution ◽

Forest Conversion ◽

Impact Of Climate Change ◽

The Impact ◽

Impacts Of Climate Change

Abstract Food security is one of the main goals in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal’s (SDG’s). Food security, natural disasters, and climate change are thought to be interrelated. Climate change contributes to natural disasters such as floods, landslides, drought, land and forest fires, resulting in reduced food production, increased food prices, and disrupted access to food distribution. Ultimately, the impacts of climate change and natural disasters are one of the main causes of hunger and affect all dimensions of food security. This study aimed to analyze the impact of climate change, natural disasters, and other determinants on food security in Indonesia using the Tobit regression. The data used was from 33 provinces in 2010-2018. Climate change was proxied by rainfall, while natural disasters were proxied by the frequency of natural disasters and facility damage due to disasters. The results showed that food crop production, GRDP per capita, and the average years of schooling had a significant effect on increasing food security. Meanwhile, rainfall and deforestation had a significant effect on reducing food security. On the other hand, although not significant, the frequency and damage to facilities due to natural disasters harms food security. The results of this study confirmed the importance of preserving forest biodiversity as an effort to achieve food security as seen from the negative effects of rainfall and deforestation on food security. In this case, deforestation was one of the contributors to climate change which in turn had an impact on the intensity of natural disasters. To achieve food security for the achievement of the SDGs, policies to reduce deforestation or forest conversion need attention as one of the efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate change and natural disasters.

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Research after Natural Disasters: Recommendations and Lessons Learned

Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship ◽

10.54656/cbnw3743 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Roslyn Richardson ◽

Carol Ann Plummer ◽

Juan Barthelemy ◽

Daphne Cain

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Natural Disasters ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Research Projects ◽

Community Partners ◽

Related Research ◽

Social Work Faculty ◽

Hurricanes Katrina And Rita

When natural disasters occur, university researchers and their community partners, particularly those in the disaster areas, are often expected to assume responsibility for generating knowledge from these events. As both natural and man-made disasters continue to occur, more faculty will be unexpectedly thrust into the arena of disaster-related research. This article explores the opportunities and challenges experienced by four social work faculty who made their initial forays into disaster-related research in the midst of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The research projects, partnerships, innovations, and problems associated with their research endeavors are discussed. In addition, recommendations for engaging in disaster-related research for researchers new to this area of inquiry are explored.

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Reconstruction of Critical and Interdependent Infrastructure Due to Catastrophic Natural Disasters: Lessons Learned

Construction Research Congress 2020 ◽

10.1061/9780784482858.096 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Behzad Rouhanizadeh ◽

Sharareh Kermanshachi ◽

Vaibhav Sanjay Dhamangaonkar

Keyword(s):

Natural Disasters ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Interdependent Infrastructure

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Academic Response to Storm-Related Natural Disasters—Lessons Learned

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph15081768 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 15 (8) ◽

pp. 1768 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Jerris Hedges ◽

Karam Soliman ◽

Gene D’Amour ◽

Dong Liang ◽

Carlos Rodríguez-Díaz ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Natural Disasters ◽

Hurricane Katrina ◽

Health Care Access ◽

Science Research ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Clinical Expertise ◽

Research Education ◽

Care Access ◽

Comparative Review ◽

Faculty And Administrators

On 30 October 2017, selected faculty and administrators from Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) grantee institutions gathered to share first-hand accounts of the devastating impact of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, which had interrupted academic activities, including research, education, and training in Puerto Rico, Florida, and Texas. The presenters reviewed emergency response measures taken by their institutions to maintain community health care access and delivery, the storm-related impact on clinical and research infrastructure, and strategies to retain locally grown clinical expertise and translational science research talent in the aftermath of natural disasters. A longer-term perspective was provided through a comparative review of lessons learned by one New Orleans-based institution (now more than a decade post-storm) in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Caring for the internal and external communities associated with each institution and addressing the health disparities exacerbated by storm-related events is one key strategy that will pay long-term dividends in the survival of the academic institutions and the communities they serve.

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