Berg, Thomas A. Marino, Kelsi N. Kintziger, Kristina W.
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
Disasters and other emergency events have complex effects on human systems, particularly if the events are severe or prolonged. When these types of events happen in rural communities, the resources of the local public health, healthcare, and emergency response organizations can be quickly depleted or overwhelmed. Planning for emergencies can help t...
Sandoval, Vicente Voss, Martin Flörchinger, Verena Lorenz, Stephan Jafari, Parisa
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
This study analyzed the international key literature on integrated disaster risk management (IDRM), considering it a dynamic sociocultural process subjected to the historical process of social formation, offering a closer look at the concept while exploring conceptual elements and ideas to advance IDRM in both national and international contexts. M...
Sechi, Giulia Jole Hendriks, Eefje Pregnolato, Maria
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
Housing in informal settlements often lacks construction techniques that adopt criteria of resilience to natural hazards. Smartphones are rapidly diffusing in economically developing countries. The aim of this study was to assess the current use of smartphones by the masons of the informal settlements of Iringa, Tanzania, and to identify pathways f...
Sultan, Mohammed Ali Salem Khorram-Manesh, Amir Sørensen, Jarle Løwe Berlin, Johan Carlström, Eric
This study aimed to evaluate the development of healthcare teamwork during and after the collaboration tabletop exercises, through observation and interview methods. Integration and maturity theoretical models were employed to explain the collaborative challenges in teams that may suffer from unequally distributed power, hierarchies, and fragmentat...
Phattharapornjaroen, Phatthranit Carlström, Eric Holmqvist, Lina Dahlén Sittichanbuncha, Yuwares Khorram-Manesh, Amir
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
According to the concept of “flexible surge capacity,” hospitals may need to be evacuated on two occasions: (1) when they are exposed to danger, such as in war; and (2) when they are contaminated, such as during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the former, the entire hospital must be evacuated, while in the latter, the hospital becomes a pandemic center n...
Wen, Jiahong Wan, Chengcheng Ye, Qian Yan, Jianping Li, Weijiang
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
The severe damage and impacts caused by extreme events in a changing climate will not only make the sustainable development goals difficult to achieve, but also erode the hard-won development gains of the past. This article reviews the major impacts and challenges of disaster and climate change risks on sustainable development, and summarizes the c...
Adekola, Josephine Fischbacher-Smith, Denis Okey-Adibe, Thelma Audu, Jamila
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
As countries continue to deal with the global COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences, policymakers recognize that science, technology, and innovation (STI) practices offer a means of addressing many of the health problems that arise from the ongoing pandemic. Such recognition has given rise to many STI policy initiatives across various areas of sci...
Pharoah, Robyn Zweig, Patricia Walls, Richard Eksteen, Rodney
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
This article presents the findings of a pilot project to test the large-scale rollout of smoke alarms in an informal community in Cape Town, South Africa. The work provides novel insight into the effectiveness and challenges associated with using smoke detectors in low-income communities. Technical details and detector considerations are also provi...
Zhang, Zhengtao Li, Ning Wang, Ming Liu, Kai Huang, Chengfang Zhuang, Linmei Liu, Fenggui
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
Disaster clusters refer to major disasters that cluster in space and time without any linkage, resulting in large direct damage and economic ripple effects (EREs). However, the cumulative EREs caused by a disaster cluster may not be equal to the summation EREs of the individual disasters within a cluster. We constructed a global economic ripple inp...
Mihunov, Volodymyr V. Jafari, Navid H. Wang, Kejin Lam, Nina S. N. Govender, Dylan
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
Twitter can supply useful information on infrastructure impacts to the emergency managers during major disasters, but it is time consuming to filter through many irrelevant tweets. Previous studies have identified the types of messages that can be found on social media during disasters, but few solutions have been proposed to efficiently extract us...
