Post-disaster housing and management in Malaysia: a literature review [PDF]
, 2013 Purpose – Malaysia is still in the process of reorganising and restructuring disaster management policy, learning from the national and international experiences.
O'Keefe, Phil, Roosli, Ruhizal
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Scenario Planning in Disaster Management: A Call to Change the Current Practice
The Journal of Medicine, Law & Public Health, 2021 The current pandemic uncovered how disastrous our disaster plans. The disaster doctrine in its current state is far from ideal, and another model of thinking is warranted.
Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah
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Perencanaan Dark Heritage Bagi Masyarakat di Kawasan Pascabencana Tsunami Banda Aceh, Indonesia
Tataloka, 2021 The concept of dark heritage has been used as a concept of preserving an area or site that contains relics due to dark events in the past. The 2004 tsunami disaster that hit the city as the most affected area after the disaster has left various relics ...
Zya Dyena Meutia +3 more
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'Catastrophic Failure' Theories and Disaster Journalism: Evaluating Media Explanations of the Black Saturday Bushfires [PDF]
, 2010 In recent decades, academic researchers of natural disasters and emergency management have developed a canonical literature on 'catastrophe failure' theories such as disaster responses from from US emergency management services (Drabek, 2010; Quarantelli,
Burns, Alex, Eltham, Ben
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2021 Background Hospitals play a critical role as a frontline agency in disasters, with staff often working within extraordinary circumstances in these facilities to deliver care. This study was inspired by the authors' interdisciplinary experiences in health
Heba Mohtady Ali +3 more
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Participatory approach for integrated basin planning with focus on disaster risk reduction : the case of the Limpopo river [PDF]
, 2011 This paper defends the idea that a participatory approach is a suitable method for basin planning integrating both water and land aspects. Assertions made are based on scientific literature review and corroborated by field experience and research carried
De Dapper, Morgan +3 more
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Alternative Care Sites: An Option in Disasters [PDF]
, 2020 During the current COVID-19 pandemic, the limited surge capacity of the healthcare system is being quickly overwhelmed. Similar scenarios play out when an institution’s systems fail, or when local or regional disasters occur.
Iserson, Kenneth V.
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Local perspectives on humanitarian aid in Sri Lanka after the tsunami [PDF]
, 2008 Objectives: This case study examines the impact of humanitarian aid from the perspectives of local stakeholders in Sri Lanka following the tsunami disaster of December 2004.
A.C.K. Lee +30 more
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Planning for Disaster-Induced Relocation of Communities
Journal of the American Planning Association, 2021 Problem, research strategy, and findings Disasters displace millions of people every year. After the disaster, they must decide whether to return to their homes or move elsewhere.
B. Balachandran +2 more
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Sentinels to climate change. The need for monitoring at South Africa’s Subantarctic laboratory [PDF]
, 2014 The International Society for Burns Injuries (ISBI) has published guidelines for the management of multiple or mass burns casualties, and recommends that 'each country has or should have a disaster planning system that addresses its own particular needs.'
Ansorge, Isabelle J. +2 more
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