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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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The disaster after the disaster: The quicksand of post-disaster recovery funding
Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, 2019The incidence of natural disasters is on a steep rise, as are the costs associated with recovering from such incidents. Financially, this trend is unsustainable. In the USA, for example, severe reductions have been imposed on the grant funds available for distribution by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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Disaster response. Natural disaster: Katrina
Surgery Today, 2010The aftermath and response to a disaster can be divided into four phases. The importance of each depends on the length of time without resupply and the resources that are required. This in turn depends on the time span of the disaster; the area involved; the number of the population affected; the resupply available; the extent of the devastation; and ...
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Resuscitation, 2010
Emergency preparedness has come to the forefront of everyone's minds in the last decade with international events such as 911 in New York and 7/7 in London and the Avian and Swine flu pandemics. Each major incident has its own unique course of action and so preparing the healthcare community has become an expanding and increasingly complex area with ...
Matthew W, Cooke, Samantha J, Brace
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Emergency preparedness has come to the forefront of everyone's minds in the last decade with international events such as 911 in New York and 7/7 in London and the Avian and Swine flu pandemics. Each major incident has its own unique course of action and so preparing the healthcare community has become an expanding and increasingly complex area with ...
Matthew W, Cooke, Samantha J, Brace
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Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 1993
Chemical disasters are sufficiently common that plans are needed to prevent them, or to mitigate their effects should they occur. However, they are sufficiently rare that any individual is likely to have little or no experience of them. This article reviews chemical disasters which have been reported in the medical literature, and briefly discusses ...
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Chemical disasters are sufficiently common that plans are needed to prevent them, or to mitigate their effects should they occur. However, they are sufficiently rare that any individual is likely to have little or no experience of them. This article reviews chemical disasters which have been reported in the medical literature, and briefly discusses ...
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The Field of Disasters and Disaster Stress
British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 1991Abstract The literature on disasters - including the contributions to the present symposium - refers to a wide range of victim groups and very different kinds of disasters. There is a need for a classificatory system which draws the different studies together.
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Veterinary Record, 2011
Vets play an important role in responding to disasters but, says Sebastian Heath , they could play a more significant role by shaping society‘s attitudes to animals and by disease mitigation and preparedness THROUGHOUT the centuries veterinarians have played critical roles in disasters. After several decades of large-scale disasters involving animals,
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Vets play an important role in responding to disasters but, says Sebastian Heath , they could play a more significant role by shaping society‘s attitudes to animals and by disease mitigation and preparedness THROUGHOUT the centuries veterinarians have played critical roles in disasters. After several decades of large-scale disasters involving animals,
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Journal of the Royal Society of Health, 1986
The events in Bhopal in December 1984 shook the world out of its sense of complacency about modern technology in general, and about the chemical industry in particular. This information was gathered from hundreds of interviews with doctors, Union Carbide officials, medical students, voluntary aid service workers and many others.
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The events in Bhopal in December 1984 shook the world out of its sense of complacency about modern technology in general, and about the chemical industry in particular. This information was gathered from hundreds of interviews with doctors, Union Carbide officials, medical students, voluntary aid service workers and many others.
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The trap of climate change-induced “natural” disasters and inequality
Global Environmental Change, 2021Federica Cappelli +2 more
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Coal-gas compound dynamic disasters in China: A review
Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 2020Feng Du
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