Technology will play at least as vital a role in the 21st century as it did in the 20th. Therefore , it is important to address technology-related issues facing futures studies. My own two decades of experience in corporate planning and three in professional journal editing suggest a correlation of technological innovation clusters, corporate planning, and technological forecasting with the wel...

the huge earthquake in 11 march 2012 which followed by a destructive tsunami in japan was largest recorded earthquake in the history. japan is pioneer in disaster management, especially earthquakes. how this developed country faced this disaster, which had significant worldwide effects? the humanitarian behavior of the japanese people amazingly wondered the word's media, meanwhile the managemen...

Rural development for objective 1 regions is also promoted through specific Integrated Plans, to be realized through the definition of Socio-Economic Partnerships. The members of these Partnerships are public and private subjects which represent the interests of local people and of the Government. The members of a Socio-Economic Partnership play different roles in society and thus have differen...

BACKGROUND Disasters are traumatic events that may result in a wide range of mental and physical health consequences. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is probably the most commonly studied post-disaster psychiatric disorder. This review aimed to systematically assess the evidence about PTSD following exposure to disasters. MethodA systematic search was performed. Eligible studies for this ...

PROBLEM On 11 March 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake produced a catastrophic tsunami that devastated the city of Rikuzen-Takata and left it without an effective health infrastructure and at increased risk of outbreaks of disease. APPROACH On 2 May 2011, a disease-surveillance team was formed of volunteers who were clinicians or members of Rikuzen-Takata's municipal government. The team's...

Millions of people exchange user-generated information through online social media (SM) services. The prevalence of SM use globally and its growing significance to the evolution of events has attracted the attention of many agencies, from humanitarian non-government organizations (NGOs) and disaster response agencies to homeland security and counter-terrorism. The information exchanged in SM si...

Identifying factors that affect human decision making and quantifying their influence remain essential and challenging tasks for the design and implementation of social and technological communication systems. We report results of a behavioral experiment involving decision making in the face of an impending natural disaster. In a controlled laboratory setting, we characterize individual and gro...

Human desires toward the heavens had been continued after Tower of Babel. Many high-rise buildings were constructed with technological progress in the 20 century. The tallest skyscraper of the world is Burj Khalifa (Dubai, UAE) with a height of 828 meters. Kingdom tower (Jeddah, KSA) would be tallest building with 1,000 meters about 2019 (1). Skyscrapers have lots of problems in terms of disast...

An influential approach to engineering ethics is based on codes of ethics and the application of moral principles by individual practitioners. However, to better understand the ethical problems of complex technological systems and the moral reasoning involved in such contexts, we need other tools as well. In this article, we consider the role of imagination and develop a concept of distributed ...