Systematic reviews are now regarded as a key component of the decision making process in health care, and, increasingly, in other areas. This should also be true in disaster risk reduction, planning and response. Since the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, The Cochrane Collaboration and others have been working together to strengthen the use and usefulness of systematic reviews in this field, throu...

Crisis Management and Disaster Recovery have gained immense importance in the wake of recent man and nature inflicted calamities such as the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001 and hurricanes/earthquakes i.e. Katrina (2005), Wilma (2005) and Indian Ocean Tsunami (2004). Most of the recent work has been conducted for crisis management under terrorist attacks and emergency management services ...

This paper describes the international disaster victim identification (DVI) response mounted in Thailand, with particular reference to Singapore's contribution to this process, in the wake of the Asian tsunami of 26 December, 2004, which devastated parts of more than 10 countries in and around the Indian Ocean and claimed more than 200,000 lives. Although Singapore was unscathed by this natural...

Recent events, including the Indian Ocean tsunami, the hurricanes of the 2005 season, and the 7/7 and 9/11 terrorist attacks, have made us all acutely aware of the vulnerability of modern society. Knowing where such events have occurred and the geographic limits of their impacts is clearly important, particularly when combined with information on human populations, infrastructure, and other spa...

This study aims to investigate the tsunami exposure current land use cover (LULC) with LULC predictions for next 50 years, including impact of sea-level rise (SLR) in Banda Aceh. began a spatio-temporal dynamic analysis using changes projection. Firstly, Markov Chain was used simulate changing trends from 2011 2015. The were 2015-2065 Cellular Automata (CA). There six main types classifications...

In response to the 2004 tsunami disaster in the Indian Ocean, the U.S. Navy deployed teams aboard the USNS Mercy to provide aid during Operation Unified Assistance (OUA). To date, few research studies have examined how Navy nurses prepared for and clinically performed during this relief operation. The current article describes the challenges faced by Navy nurses throughout OUA. A purposive conv...

In recent years tsunamis have been recognized as one of the most catastrophic natural disasters in world, highlighted by 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami. These countries affected like Indonesia, Thailand Japan usually arm their coast with sea walls to provide protection for coastal urban regions; however, surveys found during both events, several sections breached h...