Environmental management system (EMS) comprises of management practices that helps an organization to assess their level of efficiencies in meeting the environmental responsibilities. EMS involves listing of all environmental legislations, all environmental effects associated with activities, setting targets, keeping appropriate records and undertaking regular reviews of organization for sound ...

Improvements in technology and manufacturing reduce prices for sensing technology and allow the internet-connection of more and more base stations; therefore growing both the scale and application areas for wireless sensor networks. Reconfigurable, general purpose networks are replacing classic black-box sensor technology in the fields of environmental observations, for example conservation and...

* Department of Environmental Medicine, Kochi University Medical School, Nankoku, Japan * * Service de Dermatologie, HopitalGénéral de Kinshasa, RépubliqueDémocratique du Congo ** * Centre hospitalierNdeko-Basile, Kinshasa, RépubliqueDémocratique du Congo **** Department of Health Sciences, Walter Sisulu University, Mthata, South Africa ***** Disaster Nursing Global Leader doctoral Program (DNG...

1 Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 2 Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, 3 Department of Civil Engineering, University of Narotama, Surabaya, Indonesia, 4 Department of Civil, Environmental and Applied System Engineering, Kansai University, Suita, Japan, 5 Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Universidad Nacional...

in the response phase the most important step is to assess disaster after occurrence. by disaster assessment, we can obtain all the needed information for controlling, decision-making and also disaster planning. lack of disaster assessment causes you to make unsuitable decisions ba sed on limited or inadequate data which leads to imperfect disaster response. according to ifrc, disaster response...

Editorials 558 Several high-impact disasters in the last decade have shown diverse environmental and social settings to be vulnerable to natural hazards. According to the United Nations (UN), in 2011 302 disasters resulting from natural hazards killed 29 782 people and injured, displaced or otherwise affected another 206 million. Economic damages reached 366 billion United States dollars (US$),...

Significant economic losses, large affected populations, and serious environmental damage caused by recurrent natural disaster events (NDE) worldwide indicate insufficiency in emergency preparedness and response. The barrier of full life cycle data preparation and information support is one of the main reasons. This paper adopts the method of integrated environmental modeling, incorporates info...

The idea on Linked Open Data (LOD) for Disaster Management was stimulated by the experience with the integration of heterogeneous environmental data based on well-known OGC based web services. A lot of spatial data is available 'via the Web' but not “really on the web': many datasets can be viewed, queried and downloaded via web services, but it is usually not possible to reference an entity wi...