International ®nancial institutions like the World Bank are caught in the grip of two ®nancial forces: the increasing demand from developing countries for borrowing to cope with the costs of natural hazard losses, and stagnant budgets that have not increased with the demand on their resources. The squeeze creates interest on the part of these institutions in the possible use of catastrophe hedg...

BACKGROUND Interventions to treat mental disorders after natural disasters are important both for humanitarian reasons and also for successful post-disaster physical reconstruction that depends on the psychological functioning of the affected population. A major difficulty in developing such interventions, however, is that large between-disaster variation exists in the prevalence of post-disast...

Reconstruction and development in poor, fragile countries present a double challenge: tackling the issues of poverty and underdevelopment as well as the constraints posed by instability, poor governance, and weak capacity. This context generates a range of problems that include: insecurity, insufficient planning, inadequate implementation capacity, poor financial management, misprocurement, cor...

Following paper is focused on the computational intelligence algorithm Multi-Kernel Support Vector Machine application in the cognitive supervision of the robotic system for crisis and disaster management. The robots’ platforms applied for inspection and intervention are shown. The idea of cognitive supervision of the robotic system is presented. The idea of building cognitive map using Multi –...

The damage caused by the Nankai Trough earthquake is expected to be extremely extensive and severe. From term of about eight days after disaster (called “pull-type” transportation period) until reconstruction period there will a huge demand goods that far exceeds capacity trucks. If cannot carried out sufficiently, social disorder in early stages due shortages food beverages, etc. later, delay ...

In this paper we present and evaluate a new online reconstruction algorithm to create a textured triangle mesh from a set of aerial images via an unorganized point cloud. Both the point cloud and the mesh are iteratively refined while allowing new aerial images to be added at any time during reconstruction. Texture coordinates are learnt to instantly visualize an initially rough approximation t...

Four propositions drawn from 60 years of natural hazard and reconstruction research provide a comparative and historical perspective on the reconstruction of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Decisions taken over its 288-year history that have made New Orleans so vulnerable to Katrina reflect a long-term pattern of societal response to hazard events--reducing consequences to relatively frequ...

This data article presents the life cycle inventories of 20 transitional shelter solutions. The data was gathered from the reports 8 shelter designs [1]; 10 post-disaster shelter designs [2]; the environmental impact of brick production outside of Europe [3]; and the optimization of bamboo-based post-disaster housing units for tropical and subtropical regions using LCA methodologies [4]. These ...