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Disasters and Disaster Management
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010A 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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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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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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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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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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Disaster Management in the Caribbean
Disasters, 1997This paper identifies the main trends in approaches to disaster management in the Caribbean at both regional and national levels over the past 20 years. It highlights the main reasons why and how the region has moved from an ad hoc response to an organised approach.
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Disaster Victim Management: Management of Disaster Victim Identification
2016The management of a disaster victim identification (DVI) situation consists of pre-disaster planning and antemortem (AM), and postmortem (PM) procedures, and begins by building up a DVI organization. This organization must be ready to deploy at short notice, at home working with the AM information and at the scene performing the PM procedures.
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Disaster management : a review on the role of project management in disaster management
2017Sudden-onset disasters cannot be controlled and usually hit unexpectedly, and it seems that we have become increasingly exposed to such environmental hazards. Therefore, the question arises of whether there are projects or plans in place that aim to reduce the harm caused by these disasters to society and to the environment.
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2012
© Springer International Publishing AG 2018. Natural disasters, whether of meteorological origin such as cyclones, floods, tornadoes and droughts or of having geological nature such as earthquakes and volcanoes, are well known for their devastating impacts on human life, economy and environment, and are also formidable physical constraints in our ...
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© Springer International Publishing AG 2018. Natural disasters, whether of meteorological origin such as cyclones, floods, tornadoes and droughts or of having geological nature such as earthquakes and volcanoes, are well known for their devastating impacts on human life, economy and environment, and are also formidable physical constraints in our ...
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