scholarly journals Examination of Household Evacuation Influencing Factors In Flood Disaster: A Case Study of Saptari Flood in Nepal

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-76
Author(s):  
Praja Bhakta Shrestha ◽  
Gangadhar Chaudhary
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Flood Disaster ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The People ◽  
Major Disaster ◽  
Prone Area ◽  
Flood Prone Area ◽  
Past Experiences

Disaster, a serious disruption in functioning of society whether by natural or manmade cause can happen anywhere. Devastating seismic, hurricane, flood, drought and fire are major disaster. Mitigating disaster risk, prompt rescue and timely evacuation decision during such disaster can prevent loss of lives and properties. The evacuation decision is the choice of people to stay away from the area of risk. The study analyzes the people’s perception of evacuation decisions in a flood disaster in the Saptari district of Nepal affected by Koshi River and other tributaries of it as a Disaster Risk Management. According to United Nations (2016), Management refers to “the organization, planning and applications of measure preparing for, responding to and recovering form disasters”. From the flood-affected site, 246 people were randomly selected for this study and examined the factors influencing evacuation decision-making. The study analyzes the past experiences of the people and their perception. The study has explored that Gender, Destination of evacuation, warning condition, reasons for not evacuating, education, age, proximity to the River from residence, land ownership, the capacity of the people are the factors examined and found no any association with the people’s decision on evacuation during the flood disaster in affected areas in Saptari district. These findings help the student, Disaster Risk Reduction field, Government policy makers and different actors to minimize the loss of lives and properties. The study also recommends for future research on victim’s evacuation decision-making capability in different flood-prone area of Nepal.

scholarly journals SITE SUITABILITY ANALYSIS FOR INDUSTRIES USING GIS AND MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING

2018 ◽  
Vol IV-5 ◽  
pp. 447-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
S. Saran ◽  
K. V. Ramana
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Suitability Analysis ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The People ◽  
Manufacturing Sectors ◽  
Hierarchy Process

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Developing countries have to be very cautious in utilizing the land as they affect the food security, cause damage to environment and an ecological imbalance might be created in the process of establishing industries to raise the standard of living of the people from poverty. India, as a developing nation with sufficient amount of arable land at present is producing surplus food which is sufficient for all the population, in the recent decades loosing productive agricultural land without proper scientific solution for industries. This is a major concern because it causes not only food scarcity but dependency on the other nations even though we have lot of industries. We need to maintain a balance between Agriculture and manufacturing sectors to have smooth run of the country’s economy. The purpose of the study is to assess the land use changes in the areas for recent years which have potential for industrial establishment through land suitability analysis (LSA) to emphasize both agriculture and industries with sustainable development. Geographic information Systems (GIS) and Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) are combined to distinctly identify the suitable zones for industries. Six criteria in Analytical hierarchy Process (AHP) and nine criteria in Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) are evaluated by spatial analysis using ArcGIS software. Considerable amount of productive agricultural land is diverted to non agricultural purposes during last 12 years i.e., from 2004&amp;ndash;2016, which is at first taken for industrial establishment. Results obtained by the methodology we followed have given considerable accuracy by cross checking the previously established industries with suitability regions. Thus GIS and MCDM can assist the policy makers and planning officials to get a better overview with the resources they possess to carry forward with less damage to environment and agricultural land.</p>

scholarly journals Potential of Community Volunteers in Flood Early Warning Dissemination: A Case Study of Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (24) ◽  
pp. 13010
Author(s):  
Murtuza Al-Mueed ◽  
Md Rafique Ahasan Chawdhery ◽  
Emmanuel Harera ◽  
Riyadh A. Alhazmi ◽  
Abdulmajeed M. Mobrad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Warning ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The People ◽  
Prone Area ◽  
Community Volunteers ◽  
Vital Component ◽  
Flood Prone Area

Flood early warning (FEW) is a vital component of disaster risk management and is particularly important for saving lives, developing a sustainable agro-based economy, economic stability, and the overall development of the people of Bangladesh as well as others. This study was conducted in a northern, flood-prone area of Bangladesh to investigate the potential of incorporating volunteers of the community to the Union Councils (UCs) to disseminate FEW alongside the top-down approach. Several studies have found that despite having a sophisticated flood forecasting technology, local communities are not reaping the benefits of it, as the existing dissemination system is inaccessible to most local people. Since risk communication takes place in a social context, this study investigated and thereby proposed that volunteerism, as a form of social capital or communal virtue, can potentially assist the community-based disaster management (CBDM) institutions in enhancing their capacity to reach the maximum population at times of flood risk. Therefore, it was confirmed that the trained volunteers need to be integrated into and endorsed by the national policy. In addition, this study also provides a number of recommendations connecting literature with policy documents of Bangladesh.

scholarly journals An inventory of biodiversity data sources for conservation monitoring

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. e0242923
Author(s):  
P. J. Stephenson ◽  
Carrie Stengel
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Biodiversity Data ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The People ◽  
Science Community ◽  
Global Data

Many conservation managers, policy makers, businesses and local communities cannot access the biodiversity data they need for informed decision-making on natural resource management. A handful of databases are used to monitor indicators against global biodiversity goals but there is no openly available consolidated list of global data sets to help managers, especially those in high-biodiversity countries. We therefore conducted an inventory of global databases of potential use in monitoring biodiversity states, pressures and conservation responses at multiple levels. We uncovered 145 global data sources, as well as a selection of global data reports, links to which we will make available on an open-access website. We describe trends in data availability and actions needed to improve data sharing. If the conservation and science community made a greater effort to publicise data sources, and make the data openly and freely available for the people who most need it, we might be able to mainstream biodiversity data into decision-making and help stop biodiversity loss.

scholarly journals Relationship between Students’ Involvement in Decision-Making and Academic Performance in Public Secondary Schools of Kenya

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. p1
Author(s):  
Justus B. Maende
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Secondary School Principals ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Baseline Information ◽  
Level Of Significance

Secondary school principals play a key role in decision-making leading to students’ academic performance. There was a decline in the percentage of the examination candidates from Kakamega County who were selected to join public universities from the year 2011 to 2015. This study intended to establish the relationship between students’ involvement in decision-making by principals and academic performance. Respondents were sampled by simple random sampling. Pre-testing of instruments of data collection was undertaken to ensure validity and reliability of the instruments. Data was collected from 36 principals, 199 teachers and 393 Form 4 students by use of questionnaire and interview schedule. Research experts determined validity of the instruments. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, frequencies, percentages, means, cross tabulation and Pearson’s correlation. Hypotheses were tested through regression analysis at 0.05 level of significance. Regression analysis revealed that students’ involvement in decision-making explained 24.6%, and of the variation in academic performance. Leadership functions such as students allowed to elect prefects, prefects attending staff/BoM meetings. It was recommended that principals should involve students in decision making. This study would be significant to policy makers, principals, teachers and other education stakeholders in Kenya. The study would also form baseline information for future research.

Exposure, Experience, and Expertise: Why Personal Histories Matter in Economics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrike Malmendier
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Neural Plasticity ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Neural Connections ◽  
Economic Decision Making ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Experience Effects ◽  
Past Experiences

Abstract Personal experiences of economic outcomes, from global financial crises to individual-level job losses, can shape individual beliefs, risk attitudes, and choices for years to come. A growing literature on experience effects shows that individuals act as if past outcomes that they experienced were overly likely to occur again, even if they are fully informed about the actual likelihood. This reaction to past experiences is long-lasting though it decays over time as individuals accumulate new experiences. Modern brain science helps understand these processes. Evidence on neural plasticity reveals that personal experiences and learning alter the strength of neural connections and fine-tune the brain structure to those past experiences (“use-dependent brain”). I show that experience effects help understand belief formation and decision-making in a wide range of economic applications, including inflation, home purchases, mortgage choices, and consumption expenditures. I argue that experience-based learning is broadly applicable to economic decision-making and discuss topics for future research in education, health, race, and gender economics.

Some Hot Topics in Personnel Management and Emotions

2019 ◽  
pp. 51-68
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Personnel Management ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
The People ◽  
Smart Goals ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
The Way

Building upon the findings from the previous chapters, the authors introduce the hot topic of perception, and the theories and models that researchers have proposed to somehow rationalise the decision-making process. In particular, they observe how individuals perceive specific situations and what factors influence such perception. This chapter is useful to reflect on past experiences, and the way you think of the people you come across in your life or within the organisation you work for. In this perspective, the authors show that perception can be manipulated through motivation techniques, using, for example, Maslow's theory of needs or Latham's SMART goals approach.

Planning for Floods at the University of Iowa

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-73
Author(s):  
Charles Connerly ◽  
Lucie Laurian ◽  
James Throgmorton
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
University Of Iowa ◽  
Large Institution ◽  
River Flood ◽  
Prone Area ◽  
Flood Prone Area ◽  
The University ◽  
Great Damage

Why does a large institution build in a flood-prone area and how does it respond when flooding causes great damage? This is a case study of a major flood event—the 2008 Iowa–Cedar River flood—and the University of Iowa, whose recovery is expected to cost about US$750 million. The case explores the factors that led a major institution to invest so much of its infrastructure into a flood-prone river shed and then describes and evaluates the decision-making process the University has undertaken with the goal of becoming a more sustainable and resilient campus.

scholarly journals Corrigendum to: A collaboratively derived environmental research agenda for Galápagos

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 207
Author(s):  
Arturo Izurieta ◽  
Byron Delgado ◽  
Nicolas Moity ◽  
Monica Calvopiña ◽  
Iván Cedeño ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Invasive Alien Species ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

Galápagos is one of the most pristine archipelagos in the world and its conservation relies upon research and sensible management. In recent decades both the interest in, and the needs of, the islands have increased, yet the funds and capacity for necessary research have remained limited. It has become, therefore, increasingly important to identify areas of priority research to assist decision-making in Galápagos conservation. This study identified 50 questions considered priorities for future research and management. The exercise involved the collaboration of policy makers, practitioners and researchers from more than 30 different organisations. Initially, 360 people were consulted to generate 781 questions. An established process of preworkshop voting and three rounds to reduce and reword the questions, followed by a two-day workshop, was used to produce the final 50 questions. The most common issues raised by this list of questions were human population growth, climate change and the impact of invasive alien species. These results have already been used by a range of organisations and politicians and are expected to provide the basis for future research on the islands so that its sustainability may be enhanced.

scholarly journals Top Management Teams

2021 ◽  
pp. 355-368
Author(s):  
Margarethe F. Wiersema ◽  
Joshua S. Hernsberger
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Top Management Teams ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Strategic Decision Making ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Top Management ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Executive Teams ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
And Behavior

Scholarly interest in the firm’s top management is an important research topic given their influence on strategic decision-making and firm outcomes, as well as increased media attention and activist investor scrutiny of the firm’s executives. The past experiences, knowledge, and skills of the firm’s top management team (TMT) represent the stock of the firm’s strategic human capital, which, along with their social capital and cognitive perspectives, influences strategic decision-making. This chapter provides a brief overview of the current state of research on TMTs and addresses limitations of this research before proposing an agenda for future research. The intent is to suggest avenues of scholarly inquiry to better understand how the firm’s TMT, through its interactions, attributes, and behavior, influences strategic decision-making. In doing so, the chapter could serve to encourage future research that will provide practical insight on how companies and boards can have more effective executive teams.

scholarly journals Assessment of the level of drainage services in Damai settlement area (Ampal River Watershed), Balikpapan, Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 916 (1) ◽  
pp. 012001
Author(s):  
A Nursaiba ◽  
M Ulimaz
Keyword(s):  
Service Level ◽  
Drainage Channel ◽  
Weighting Method ◽  
Service Levels ◽  
River Watershed ◽  
Settlement Area ◽  
Major Disaster ◽  
Prone Area ◽  
Flood Prone Area

Abstract Flood is a major disaster in Balikpapan City. One of the locations experiencing high flooding is in the Damai settlement area (Ampal River Watershed), especially in Mayor Polisi Zainal Arifin Street. One of the causes of this flood-prone area is the suboptimal drainage conditions. This study aimed to assess the drainage services in the Damai settlement area (Ampal River Watershed), of Mayor Polisi Zainal Arifin Street to observe the drainage services and overcome flood problems. Achieving such goals was done by analyzing the service level of the drainage channel by using the scoring and weighting method. The scoring and weighting method produced classifications of drainage services in the Damai settlement area (Ampal River Watershed) on Mayor Polisi Zainal Arifin Street, namely, medium and bad drainage services. There is segment 2 channel 2A, segment 3 channel 3A, segment 4 channel 4A, and segment 5 on channel 5A and 5B classified as having bad service level and there are 13 channels classified as having moderate service levels.

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