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Governance of Disaster Management

2017
The governance of disaster management encompasses a broad range of public, private, and not-for-profit organizations, international institutions, national and transnational regulations, guidelines, and practices intended to guide concerted actions to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from man-made and natural disasters, by limiting their ...
Bongiovanni, Ivano   +1 more
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Disasters and Disaster Management

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
A disaster is a state or an event which disrupts the functioning of a community or a society. The local communities mostly cannot resolve of their own in the disasters. The disaster selection criteria in this study are based on the geographical scale of a disaster, the warning time of a disaster occurrence, the number of injuries and deaths resulting ...
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Disaster management teams

Current Opinion in Critical Care, 2005
All disasters, regardless of cause, have similar medical and public health consequences. A consistent approach to disasters, based on an understanding of their common features and the response expertise they require, is becoming the accepted practice throughout the world. This strategy is called the mass casualty incident response.
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Improving disaster management

Communications of the ACM, 2010
Social networking, sophisticated imaging, and dual-use technologies promise improved disaster management, but they must be adopted by governments and aid agencies if more lives are to be saved in the wake of crises.
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