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Pedestrian, Crowd, and Evacuation Dynamics

, 2013
This contribution describes efforts to model the behavior of individual pedestrians and their interactions in crowds, which generate certain kinds of self-organized patterns of motion. Moreover, this article focusses on the dynamics of crowds in panic or
A Borgers, A Johansson, A Johansson, A Mintz, A Seyfried, BD Hankin, BD Jacobs, C Burstedde, CW Reynolds, D Elliott, D Garbrecht, D Helbing, D Helbing, D Helbing, D Helbing, D Helbing, D Helbing, D Helbing, D Helbing, D Helbing, D Helbing, D Helbing, D Helbing, D Helbing, D Helbing, D Helbing, D Helbing, D Helbing, D Helbing, E Quarantelli, F Radjai, G LeBon, G Peng, GG Løvås, GH Ristow, GK Still, H Klüpfel, H-H Stølum, HH Kelley, HW Hamacher, I Rodríguez-Iturbe, J Kerridge, J Klockgether, J Pauls, J Surowiecki, J Tubbs, JJ Fruin, JL Bryan, JP Keating, K Ando, K Lewin, KR Sreenivasan, LF Henderson, LP Kadanoff, M Ebihara, M Fukui, M Isobe, M Muramatsu, ME Cates, N Ashford, N Ketchell, NE Miller, NE Miller, NJ Smelser, NR Johnson, NS Glance, P Bak, PA Johnson, PA Thompson, PG Gipps, R Axelrod, R Axelrod, R Brown, RH Turner, RL Hughes, S Ghashghaie, S Hoogendoorn, S Okazaki, SJ Older, SJ Yuhaski Jr, SP Hoogendoorn, T Baeck, T Kretz, T Schelling, Transportation Research Board, VJ Blue, VM Predtechenskii, WH Whyte   +87 more
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Vision development in engineering education during financial crisis and natural disasters [PDF]

, 2009
Theme: Towards a safe, reliable, sustainable intelligent power systemPaper no. I9FP0473Risks are seeds of new opportunities. The year 2008 is heart-breaking to global nations.
Fok, WWT, Lee, WK
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Post- and peritraumatic stress in disaster survivors: An explorative study about the influence of individual and event characteristics across different types of disasters [PDF]

, 2012
Background: Examination of existing research on posttraumatic adjustment after disasters suggests that survivors’ posttraumatic stress levels might be better understood by investigating the influence of the characteristics of the event experienced on ...
Alexander D, Baguena M, Fisher R. P, Freitag S, Grimm A, Juczyński Z, Koren D, Maercker A, Perry R. W, Preiss M, Quarantelli E. L, Stallings R. A, Weiss D. S   +12 more
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Green and Resilient: Strategies for Next-Generation Infrastructure

Disaster in Civil Engineering and Architecture
We are pleased to announce the second edition of the Disasters in Civil Engineering and Architecture journal. The pursuit of sustainable and resilient infrastructure continues to be a key focus in the fields of civil engineering and architecture.
Reza Pahlevi Munirwan, Ramadhansyah Putra Jaya, Aizat Mohd Taib   +2 more
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Understanding Disaster Risk on Volcanic Islands: a research agenda [PDF]

, 2007
April 11-13 ...
Haklay, M, Longley, P, Lowe, CJ, McGuire, WJ   +3 more
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A health-service-risk framework for evaluating ecological carrying capacity in arid inland river basins: A case study of the Tarim River Basin

Ecological Indicators
Ecological carrying capacity (ECC) serves as a crucial indicator for evaluating the potential of regional ecosystems and informing sustainable development strategies.
Rongqin Yang, Zhenxia Mu, Zilong Li, Xiaoyan Qiu, Jing Liu   +4 more
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Washington University Record, April 6, 1995 [PDF]

, 1995
https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/record/1684/thumbnail ...

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Architecture of Environmental Risk Modelling: for a faster and more robust response to natural disasters [PDF]

, 2014
Demands on the disaster response capacity of the European Union are likely to increase, as the impacts of disasters continue to grow both in size and frequency.
de Rigo, Daniele, Rodriguez-Aseretto, Dario, Schaerer, Christian   +2 more
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Redevelopment after the Abruzzo event [PDF]

Natural disasters raise quite a number of interdisciplinary issues concerning regional economic growth and local development, as well as public finance and sustainability, to mention only a few of them.
Margherita Mori
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Pike River Mine Disaster: Systems-Engineering and Organisational Contributions [PDF]

Safety, 2016
The Pike River mine (PRM), an underground coal mine in New Zealand (NZ), exploded in 2010. This paper analyses the causes of the disaster, with a particular focus on the systems engineering and organisational contributions. Poor systems-engineering contributed via poorly designed ventilation, use of power-electronics underground, and placement of the ...
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