Social media becomes a communicating channel during a natural disaster for detecting disaster events because people share their opinions, feelings, activity during the disaster through the Twitter. Twitter is not simply a platform for broadcasting information, but one of informational interaction. So, we use this platform for mining various disaster relevant tweets during a natural disaster. We...

Taiwan is located at the high-risk region of natural disasters with the frequently occurred earthquakes. The importance of the disaster prevention education on campus is made even more obvious by the fact that natural disasters often occur during the school days. Given the leading roles the school administrators and teachers playing in the disaster prevention education of their pupils, this stu...

Disasters are deadly and destructive events, particularly in developing countries where economic, social, political and cultural factors increase natural hazard vulnerability. The recent devastation of the Haiti earthquake on January 12th, 2010 was a prime example of the human toll a natural disaster can take in developing regions of the world. There is an imminent need to improve natural disas...

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...

conclusions according to the findings of the present study, more attention should be paid to the mission and vision of the organizations in disaster preparedness. to improve the disaster preparedness measures, more emphasis should be placed on other disaster preparedness strategies such as response mechanisms and information systems. methods this was a qualitative research, which utilized conte...

Title of Document: OPTIMIZATION MODELS AND METHODOLOGIES TO SUPPORT EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND POST-DISASTER RESPONSE Lichun Chen, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010 Directed By: Associate Professor, Elise Miller-Hooks, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering This dissertation addresses three important optimization problems arising during the phases of pre-disaster emergency preparedness and ...