Despite the potential of new technologies and the improvements of early-warning systems since the 2004 Tsunami, damage and harm caused by disasters do not stop to increase. There is a clear need for better integrating the fragmented landscape of researchers and practitioners working on different aspects of decision support for disaster risk reduction and response. To demonstrate and discuss the...

The core problem in the decision sciences has always been how to use scarce data optimally. But the proliferation of inexpensive computer-based instrumentation and broadband communication make it commonplace in current applications that data is abundant, often excessive. The technical challenges are twofold: how to distill data into knowledge, and how to use that knowledge wisely. The former is...

Social media becomes a communicating channel during a natural disaster for detecting disaster events because people share their opinions, feelings, activity during the disaster through the Twitter. Twitter is not simply a platform for broadcasting information, but one of informational interaction. So, we use this platform for mining various disaster relevant tweets during a natural disaster. We...

Disaster response robotics is an important and growing application domain in robotics. Robotics researchers and the general public are increasingly aware of disaster response and rescue robotics due to the presence of disaster response robots at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear power plant. Research in disaster response robotics focuses on core areas related to safety, security, and rescue applica...

Background: A coordinated disaster response needs a well-organized structure and a locally adapted framework. In light of this, the COVID-19 pandemic offered an opportunity to renovate the response structure, which exhibited deficiencies during the pandemic. Iran shares the experience of an integrated response structure named the Reform Incidents Command System. It includes an integrated approa...

TOPIC Meeting the mental health needs of disaster response volunteers. Voluntary disaster response organizations deployed volunteers across the country following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. PURPOSE Disaster response volunteers may experience mental health needs, particularly following extended or multiple deployments. This article attempts to heighten the awareness of psychiatric mental heal...