In a representative sample of 2,030 U.S. children aged 2-17, 13.9% report lifetime exposure to disaster, and 4.1% report experiencing a disaster in the past year. Disaster exposure was associated with some forms of victimization and adversity. Victimization was associated with depression among 2- to 9-year-old disaster survivors, and with depression and aggression among 10- to 17-year-old disas...

Some different techniques were adopted in disaster management and research. Difficulties appeared in operational disaster emergency response works. There is no effective scheme to integrate various methods to a system considering that big difference exist among different disaster happening environment. Considering OHE as the unification of objects having relationship with natural disaster, we p...

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...

It is possible to construct a systematic and efficient disaster prevention system utilizing ubiquitous sensor networks and wired/wireless communication infrastructure. In this paper, we suggest and design a USN (Ubiquitous Sensor Network) platform to prevent man-maid disasters based on the scenario of a gas leak explosion. Using our proposed system, we can monitor and control relevant facilitie...

Adverse selection and moral hazard are commonly expected to cause market failures in natural disaster insurance markets. However, such problems may not arise if individuals mainly buy insurance based on risk preferences. Advantageous selection can occur if individuals with insurance are highly risk averse and seek to reduce risk. We offer a comprehensive empirical study of risk selection in nat...

This paper is aimed to propose SmartSDP, which is an IoT based disaster prevention type platform intended for installation and operation of a smart sterilization central control system. Core technologies for this platform are ‘disaster sign detection and analyses’, ‘damage prediction and forecast models’, and ‘disaster information delivery system’ and a summary of differentiations from other di...

The present information paper illustrates the close link between disaster and disability and the importance of incorporating disability perspectives in all phases of disaster risk reduction. The paper outlines the challenges persons with disabilities face in the wake of disasters and describes the benefits to all members of society using a disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction approach. ...

In historical science and social science, the influence of natural disaster upon society is a matter of great interest. In recent years, some archives are made through many hands for natural disasters, however it is inefficiency and waste. So, we suppose a computer system to create a historical natural disaster archive. As the target of this analysis, we consider newspaper articles. The news ar...

The disaster that low temperature and spare sunlight occurred in North China is a major weather hazards to the sunlight greenhouse vegetable growing. The establishment of disaster warning system of low temperature and spare sunlight for greenhouse is of great significance to the disaster mitigation and prevention. According to the climate characteristics of Hebei Province and regional distribut...

Every municipality in The Netherlands has its own disaster plan. A disaster plan contains the blueprint of how to handle incidents in the municipality with the aim of preventing incidents to grow into disasters. Given that each municipality has its own organisations, enterprises, infrastructure, and general layout, the disaster plans also differ. On the other hand, the disaster plans have a lot...