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Construction contractors involvement in disaster management planning [PDF]

open access: yesAustralasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 2014
Disasters, both natural and man-made, cause major damage and loss of life. Because of this, governments around the world are looking at building resilience to ensure communities can recover quickly and have minimal impact from a disaster.
Peter Stringfellow
doaj   +7 more sources

Harnessing the Power of Hospitalists in Operational Disaster Planning: COVID-19 [PDF]

open access: yesJ Gen Intern Med, 2020
Hospitalists are well poised to serve in key leadership roles and in frontline care in particular when facing a pandemic such as the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection.
K. Bowden   +7 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

A neglected issue in hospital emergency and disaster planning: Non-standard employment in hospitals [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Disaster Risk Reduct, 2020
Work organization and relationships have changed over recent decades. Following the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the norms concerning work-related standards will likely change even more significantly.
S. Tekeli-Yesil, S. Kiran
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Prioritizing involuntary immobility in climate policy and disaster planning [PDF]

open access: yesNat Commun
Globally, populations are increasingly located in areas at high risk of climate change impacts. Some populations lack the agency to move out of harm’s way, leading to involuntary immobility.
L. Thalheimer   +13 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Towards resilient health systems: opportunities to align surgical and disaster planning [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ Glob Health, 2019
Natural disasters significantly contribute to human death and suffering. Moreover, they exacerbate pre-existing health inequalities by imposing an additional burden on the most vulnerable populations. Robust local health systems can greatly mitigate this
Jordan S. Pyda   +8 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Disaster Planning Intentions of Tourism Accommodation Managers: Understanding the Influence of Past Disaster Experience and Disaster Management Training

open access: yesJournal of Travel Research, 2023
Tourism is one of the most vulnerable industries to disasters, and empirical studies on disaster preparedness have been surprisingly sparse. Drawing on the theory of planned behavior, this study sheds light on the unexplored mediating role of strategic ...
S. Sahadev   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The COVID-19 pandemic and organisational learning for disaster planning and management: A perspective of tourism businesses from a destination prone to consecutive disasters

open access: yesJournal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 2021
Organisational learning is critical for building disaster-resilient tourism businesses. Limited research has examined the mechanisms of organisational learning in tourism enterprises operating in disaster-prone destinations.
Gde Indra Bhaskara, V. Filimonau
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Disaster Mitigation in Coastal Areas: Perspective of the Indonesian Spatial Planning Law

open access: yesJurnal Media Hukum, 2022
This article is a critical analysis on spatial planning with regard to disaster mitigation in coastal areas. The author explores the concepts and regulations of disaster mitigation and spatial planning in Indonesian coastal areas to identify how spatial ...
Dyah Ayu Widowati
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Deriving intercity human flow pattern and mechanism based on cell phone location data: case study of Guangdong Province, China

open access: yesComputational Urban Science, 2022
The spatial pattern and mechanism of human flow are of great significance for urban planning, economic development, transportation planning and so on.
Li Zhuo   +6 more
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