Disaster Recovery and Psychology

Energy Psychology in Disaster Relief

Energy psychology utilizes cognitive operations such as imaginal exposure to traumatic memories or visualization of optimal performance scenarios—combined with physical interventions derived from acupuncture, yoga, and related systems—for inducing psychological change. While a controversial approach, this combination purportedly brings about, with unusual speed and precision, therapeutic shifts...

Recovery and Reconstruction after Disaster

Definition Disaster recovery. Disaster recovery has three distinct but interrelated meanings. First, it is a goal that involves the restoration of normal community activities that were disrupted by disaster impacts – in most people’s minds, exactly as they were before the disaster struck. Second, it is a phase in the emergency management cycle that begins with stabilization of the disaster cond...

Opportunistic Disaster Recovery

Disaster scenarios require different recovery solutions such as evacuation guidance, to perform the right action for wounded persons and efficiency diffuse useful alert for locating trapped survivors. These latter are constrained mainly by the infrastructure-less environment caused by the disaster damage (e.g. storm, earthquake). Exploiting opportunistic communications to design recovery soluti...

Disaster recovery also involves human recovery.

The Design and Verification of Disaster Recovery Strategies in Cloud Disaster Recovery Center

Disaster recovery is an important means to ensure business continuity. However, the disaster recovery investment is so huge that the cloud disaster recovery becomes a best choice for enterprises, especially for SMEs. This paper discusses the necessity and importance of the cloud disaster recovery center and the vital indicators of disaster recovery by analyzing the classification and selecting ...