A City Within A City: Houston's Disaster Relief Efforts To Help Evacuees Escaping From The Damage Caused By Hurricane Katrina

10.5580/87e ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Disaster Relief ◽  
Relief Efforts

scholarly journals Service Learning Through Disaster Relief

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-60
Author(s):  
Donna J. Duerst
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Disaster Relief ◽  
Southern Culture ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Service Projects ◽  
Developmental Experience ◽  
Relief Efforts

The Rock County 4-H Disaster Relief Committee raised $1,550 to aid tsunami victims in Sri Lanka and then turned its attention to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Thirty-one 4-H youth participated in a service learning trip to the South with the objectives of helping hurricane victims, learning about new cultures and achieving personal growth during three days of service projects in Louisiana and Mississippi. Their written reflections and other evaluative measures revealed they learned about southern culture, gained a greater appreciation for their lives, gained self confidence and developed a desire to help others more often. The trip was a valuable developmental experience for the youth, and information from the trip could be utilized to create similar experiences based on service learning. This article provides an overview of the trip and describes the evaluation methods used to measure learning and assess personal growth.

Disaster relief efforts

1992 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Yeskey ◽  
Clifford Cloonan
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Relief ◽  
Relief Efforts

Innovative Methods for the Benefit of Public Health Using Space Technologies for Disaster Response

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petros C. Dinas ◽  
Christian Mueller ◽  
Nathan Clark ◽  
Tim Elgin ◽  
S. Ali Nasseri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Satellite Communication ◽  
Disaster Relief ◽  
Unmanned Vehicles ◽  
Space Applications ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Team Project ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Relief Efforts

AbstractSpace applications have evolved to play a significant role in disaster relief by providing services including remote sensing imagery for mitigation and disaster damage assessments; satellite communication to provide access to medical services; positioning, navigation, and timing services; and data sharing. Common issues identified in past disaster response and relief efforts include lack of communication, delayed ordering of actions (eg, evacuations), and low levels of preparedness by authorities during and after disasters. We briefly summarize the Space for Health (S4H) Team Project, which was prepared during the Space Studies Program 2014 within the International Space University. The S4H Project aimed to improve the way space assets and experiences are used in support of public health during disaster relief efforts. We recommend an integrated solution based on nano-satellites or a balloon communication system, mobile self-contained relief units, portable medical scanning devices, and micro-unmanned vehicles that could revolutionize disaster relief and disrupt different markets. The recommended new system of coordination and communication using space assets to support public health during disaster relief efforts is feasible. Nevertheless, further actions should be taken by governments and organizations in collaboration with the private sector to design, test, and implement this system. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2015;9:319-328)

The Library as Lifeboat

2016 ◽  
pp. 494-515 ◽  
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.

Epilogue

2019 ◽  
pp. 201-214
Author(s):  
Cynthia A. Kierner
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Disaster Relief ◽  
First Century ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
American Red Cross ◽  
Disaster Reporting ◽  
Civil War Era ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Relief Efforts ◽  
The U.S

The epilogue skips ahead to the Johnstown flood of 1889, the deadliest disaster to date in U.S. history, and argues that the response to this debacle—due to because of advancements in communication and photography, and the advent of the American Red Cross—was in most respects comparable to that in twenty-first-century America. The main difference was the absence of federal involvement in disaster relief at Johnstown, though the U.S. government began providing disaster relief on an ad hoc basis in the post-Civil War era. The epilogue then examines the normalization of federal involvement in disaster relief and prevention in the twentieth century and the impact of social media on contemporary disaster reporting and relief efforts.

A Model for Evaluation of Disaster Management

1985 ◽  
Vol 1 (S1) ◽  
pp. 30-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmund M. Ricci
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Disaster Relief ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Technical Capability ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Relief Efforts

Our ability to manage disaster relief activities at regional, national or international levels of socio-political organization has, according to many analysts, not kept pace with the knowledge and technical capability presently available to contend with disasters. In a report released in 1977 a panel of experts assembled by the United Nations Association characterized disaster relief efforts as being routinely mismanaged. For example, the panel described what has been considered one of the better organized disaster relief efforts (the 1976 earthquake in Guatamala) in the following way.

scholarly journals Does the Type of News Coverage Influence Donations to Disaster Relief? Evidence from the 2008 Cyclone in Myanmar

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 499-505
Author(s):  
Philip H. Brown ◽  
◽  
Po Yin Wong ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Disaster Relief ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Charitable Contributions ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Cyclone Nargis ◽  
Relief Efforts ◽  
The Relationship

This paper examines the relationship between media coverage of a major natural disaster and charitable giving for disaster relief, focusing on three questions: first, was media coverage of Cyclone Nargis in May 2008 correlated with charitable giving to disaster relief in Myanmar? Second, were charitable contributions earmarked for disaster relief in Myanmar impacted by the occurrence of a second major natural disaster — the May 2008 earthquake in Wenchuan, China? Third, how did different types of news stories affect same-day charitable giving to disaster relief efforts in Myanmar? These questions are analyzed in a rich multivariate regression framework, and results show that charitable giving is indeed correlated with media coverage, that donations to disaster relief in China appear to compete with those to disaster relief in Myanmar, and that “event-driven” news stories strongly and positively influence the level of giving whereas news stories classified as “institutional” or “human-interest” do not have any discernible impact.

The Library as Lifeboat

2019 ◽  
pp. 1513-1535
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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