Interventions to reduce psychosocial disturbance following humanitarian relief efforts involving natural disasters: An integrative review

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 231-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Susan Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
Humanitarian Relief ◽  
Relief Efforts

Protecting the functionality of airports during disaster responses: Solutions

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Fielding Smith, PhD, PE, Captain USNR (Ret.), M.ASCE ◽  
Sandra Sue Waggoner, BA, EMT-P, EMSI ◽  
Arthur Rabjohn, CEM ◽  
Avi Bachar, BGen (Ret.)
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Incident Management ◽  
Humanitarian Relief ◽  
Continuity Of Operations ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
Relief Efforts ◽  
Defensive Measures

Issues of protecting the functionality of airports involved in responses for nearby or distant disasters are examined for nonintentional incidents such as natural disasters, accidents, and pandemics and for humanitarian relief efforts during intentional incidents such as terrorism, war, civil war, and riots. Proposed solutions focus on promoting airport continuity of business and continuity of operations while optimizing airports as sustainable assets during all phases of the response. The most significant recommendations involve policy, organizational, operational, physical, and defensive measures based on sound incident management systems, interoperability, national and international standards for airport use during disaster response, and new national funding sources for incremental improvements to airport capabilities in these areas.

Central African Republic peace deal needs executing

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Central African Republic ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Power Sharing ◽  
African Union ◽  
Humanitarian Relief ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Government ◽  
Relief Efforts ◽  
The Eu

Significance The accord, the full contents of which are still not public, differs from previous deals in that it follows the first direct talks between the parties and because the government has reportedly met two key demands of armed groups: amnesty and power-sharing. These are controversial measures, but they may give the deal a greater chance of success than earlier efforts. Impacts If implemented, the peace agreement could facilitate humanitarian relief efforts and lead to gradual economic recovery. The new government should secure additional financial and technical assistance for the transition from the EU, UN and individual states. The actions of the African Union and neighbouring states, particularly Sudan and Chad, will carry more weight than Western partners.

scholarly journals The Social Vulnerability of Older People to Natural Disasters: An Integrative Review

2018 ◽  
pp. 5-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila Daddoust ◽  
HamidReza Khankeh ◽  
Abbas Ebadi ◽  
Robab Sahaf ◽  
Maryam Nakhaei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Monitoring war destruction from space using machine learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (23) ◽  
pp. e2025400118
Author(s):  
Hannes Mueller ◽  
Andre Groeger ◽  
Jonathan Hersh ◽  
Andrea Matranga ◽  
Joan Serrat
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Structure ◽  
Humanitarian Relief ◽  
Conflict Zones ◽  
Automated Method ◽  
Syrian Civil War ◽  
Temporal Smoothing ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
High Resolution Satellite Images ◽  
Eyewitness Reports ◽  
Relief Efforts

Existing data on building destruction in conflict zones rely on eyewitness reports or manual detection, which makes it generally scarce, incomplete, and potentially biased. This lack of reliable data imposes severe limitations for media reporting, humanitarian relief efforts, human-rights monitoring, reconstruction initiatives, and academic studies of violent conflict. This article introduces an automated method of measuring destruction in high-resolution satellite images using deep-learning techniques combined with label augmentation and spatial and temporal smoothing, which exploit the underlying spatial and temporal structure of destruction. As a proof of concept, we apply this method to the Syrian civil war and reconstruct the evolution of damage in major cities across the country. Our approach allows generating destruction data with unprecedented scope, resolution, and frequency—and makes use of the ever-higher frequency at which satellite imagery becomes available.

scholarly journals TOWARDS "DRONE-BORNE" DISASTER MANAGEMENT: FUTURE APPLICATION SCENARIOS

2016 ◽  
Vol III-8 ◽  
pp. 181-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tullio Joseph Tanzi ◽  
Madhu Chandra ◽  
Jean Isnard ◽  
Daniel Camara ◽  
Olivier Sebastien ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Management ◽  
Situational Awareness ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Future Application ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Humanitarian Relief ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Flight Operations ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Relief Efforts

Information plays a key role in crisis management and relief efforts for natural disaster scenarios. Given their flight properties, UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) provide new and interesting perspectives on the data gathering for disaster management. A new generation of UAVs may help to improve situational awareness and information assessment. Among the advantages UAVs may bring to the disaster management field, we can highlight the gain in terms of time and human resources, as they can free rescue teams from time-consuming data collection tasks and assist research operations with more insightful and precise guidance thanks to advanced sensing capabilities. However, in order to be useful, UAVs need to overcome two main challenges. The first one is to achieve a sufficient autonomy level, both in terms of navigation and interpretation of the data sensed. The second major challenge relates to the reliability of the UAV, with respect to accidental (safety) or malicious (security) risks. <br><br> This paper first discusses the potential of UAV in assisting in different humanitarian relief scenarios, as well as possible issues in such situations. Based on recent experiments, we discuss the inherent advantages of autonomous flight operations, both lone flights and formation flights. The question of autonomy is then addressed and a secure embedded architecture and its specific hardware capabilities is sketched out. <br><br> We finally present a typical use case based on the new detection and observation abilities that UAVs can bring to rescue teams. Although this approach still has limits that have to be addressed, technically speaking as well as operationally speaking, it seems to be a very promising one to enhance disaster management efforts activities.

Toward a New Disaster Finance

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgia Levenson Keohane
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Market Failures ◽  
Humanitarian Relief ◽  
Risk Transfer ◽  
Bretton Woods ◽  
Peace Initiatives

Looks at complex manmade disasters—thornier, in some ways, than natural disasters because they do not readily lend themselves to risk transfer. Displacement and dislocation—refugees fleeing conflict—are political failures, not market failures. Nevertheless, this chapter looks at whether there are ways to improve how donor funds are raised and spent in humanitarian relief, particularly as protracted human emergencies become long-term development challenges. The chapter’s concluding observations, with examples from investment for peace initiatives in the Middle East, return us to the original Bretton Woods theme: that economic development and political stability are necessarily intertwined.

Effectiveness of DoD Humanitarian Relief Efforts in Response to Hurricanes Georges and Mitch

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. Lidy ◽  
M. M. Cecil ◽  
James Kunder ◽  
Samuel H. Packer
Keyword(s):  
Humanitarian Relief ◽  
Relief Efforts
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