Humanity is always under the threat of earthquakes. Anatolian peninsula is one of the well-known area which amongst the areas endangered by earthquakes. During the history many dramatic examples have been occurred. In these earthquakes many people either died or have been injured. In addition, lots of damage in this area has been occurred. More west, in the Sea of Marmara, these earthquakes hav...

The vulnerability of the tourism industry to a range of crises has attracted many scholars to investigate the crisis strategies and practices employed by destinations and tourism organizations mainly with regards to crisis preparedness, containment and damage limitation, crisis recovery and subsequent learning. One over-looked area has been that of crisis signal detection. This paper proposes a...

A central question for policy makers concerned to help the poor through a macro crisis is how to target scarcer resources at a time of greater need. Technical arguments suggest that finer targeting, through tightening individual programs or reallocating resources towards more tightly targeted programs, uses resources more efficiently for poverty reduction. These arguments survive even when the ...

Crisis management is a special type of collaborative situation in which the actors are subject to an uninterrupted stress. To deal with the important consequences (human and economic losses) of these situations, we study how to represent emergency management situations based on experience feedback. We use several techniques: situations representations, knowledge engineering techniques and scena...

Background: In different crises without any exception, especially sudden emergencies, the role of Human Effective Components (HECs), Native Human Effective Components (NHECs) (belonging to a specific space and location), and especially Core Native Human Effective Components (CNHECs); and among CNHECs, level of management skills, ignorance, and manager’s mind bandwidth are of vital importance in...