s: Purpose-The reconstruction of road infrastructure in the post-disaster context require different approach when compared with road projects in the normal development context. Disaster recovery projects are seen as having their own unique identity, particularly due to stakeholder issues, resource challenges, capability issues, and even long-term reliability concerns. This paper invites a discu...

Following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami all roads in the affected areas in Sri Lanka were inaccessible during the immediate aftermath of the disaster either due to the damages they sustained or poor networking of roads and lack of contingency planning within the road network systems. This paper aims at proving the necessity of effective mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction during road recon...

Urban planning is a complex decision making process which must compensate for the various interests of multiple stakeholders with respect to physical, social, and economic constraints. Despite growing interest in using A.I. in urban design and planning this community remains a field dominated by human experts. Recent catastrophic disasters such as hurricane Katrina, however, have underscored th...

Nurses play an important role in responding to disasters. Preparing nurses to participate in planning for and responding to a disaster is integral to undergraduate nursing education. The authors describe the evaluation of a collaborative learning model that has been used to teach undergraduate nursing students about disaster preparedness.

The planning of evacuation operations for a riverine flood disaster is vital for minimizing their negative impacts on human lives. This paper aims to develop a systematic method to model and plan evacuation trip generation and distribution for riverine floods. To achieve this aim, it adapts the transportation or Hitchcock problem, an operations research technique employed in conventional four-s...

The ethical implications of business continuity/disaster recovery planning, and technology is rarely a topic discussed within the academic or practitioner literature. However, ethical decisions permeate such business continuity and disaster recovery areas as data custody, privacy, and security issues involved in the control and possession of business continuity data. In this paper, a discussion...

Although quantitative analytical information systems are an important resource for supporting decision-making in disaster operations management, not all aspects of a disaster situation can be easily quantified. For example, although the concept of the disaster resilience of a community has a technical dimension within which one can measure the resistance of the infrastructure against, and the s...

Mechatronic systems are a relatively new class of technical systems. The integration of electromechanical systems with hardand software enables systems that adapt to changing operation conditions and externally defined objective functions. To gain superior system performance from this ability, sophisticated decision making processes are required. Planning is an ideal method to integrate long-te...

I n designing any training program, it must be remembered that athletes can achieve optimal performance only when they are able to “optimally balance training stress and subsequent recovery” (13). Unfortunately, despite the importance of optimal recovery within any training program, recovery is often inadequately addressed. Time devoted to planning the training is often far disproportionate to ...

The majority of accident and emergency (A&E) departments have a good working relationship with the police, based on a mutual understanding of the conflicts which arise from the need, on one hand, to treat patients with confidentiality and on the other hand, the role of the police in maintaining law and order. In A&E work we need police help for many reasons, not least of which is staff and pati...