Special Issue on Mapping, Monitoring and Assessing Disasters

Ecological economics of coastal disasters: Introduction to the special issue

Article history: Received 1 March 2007 Accepted 1 March 2007 Available online 12 April 2007 Coastal disasters are increasing in frequency and magnitude—measured in terms of human lives lost, destroyed infrastructure, ecological damage and disrupted social networks. Hurricane Katrina and the Indian Ocean tsunami illustrate the severe and widespread impacts of such disasters on human well-being. ...

Special Issue on Localization and Mapping in Challenging Environments

Reliable localization and mapping are competencies essential to realize many different robot applications. A broad range of techniques, ranging from statistical approaches such as Kalman filters and particle filters, to optimization based methods, have been developed in the last two decades for solving these problems. Significant contributions have been made in improving the efficiency and robu...

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Introduction to a Special Issue on Research with Youth Exposed to Disasters and Violence

This issue of the Child and Youth Care Forum presents six papers on research with youth exposed to disasters and violence. The International Work Group on Treatment Interventions for Children Exposed to War and Violence sponsored by the Stanford Early Life Stress Research Program (held at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies May 5–May 9, 2012) was the impetus...

Special Issue: Sensors for Environmental Monitoring

This paper surveys the needs associated with environmental monitoring and longterm environmental stewardship. Emerging sensor technologies are reviewed to identify compatible technologies for various environmental monitoring applications. The contaminants that are considered in this report are grouped into the following categories: (1) metals, (2) radioisotopes, (3) volatile organic compounds, ...