Building a Sound and Flexible Emergency Response System Hard Won Lessons in Disaster Management

The 'axe man' departs, offering hard-won lessons.

Eradicating Invasive Plants: Hard-won Lessons for Islands

The record of eradicating invasive plants, whether on islands or continents, consists of few clear victories, some stalemates, and many defeats. Instructive, if hard-won, lessons have nevertheless been learned. (1) The ideal eradication campaign would see all individuals of a potentially-invasive species destroyed immediately upon their arrival. Few immigrants meet this fate; more usually there...

Health System Response and Management: Lessons Learned From Iran\'s 2019 Floods

Background: While the main concern of Iran has been the risk of drought, and the Iranian authorities are always trying to find the solutions and prepare projects for the supply of their citizenschr('39') water, this country suddenly experienced a massive flood that affected more than 31 provinces in 2019. This study was conducted to extract lessons learned from the health system response and ma...

Emergency Response Systems for Disaster Management in Buildings

Emergency response operations can benefit from the use of information systems that reduce decision making time and facilitate coordination between the participating units. We propose the use of two such systems and evaluate them with a specialised software platform that we have developed for simulation of disasters in buildings. The first system provides movement decision support to evacuees by...

Active Disaster Response System for a Smart Building

Disaster warning and surveillance systems have been widely applied to help the public be aware of an emergency. However, existing warning systems are unable to cooperate with household appliances or embedded controllers; that is, they cannot provide enough time for preparedness and evacuation, especially for disasters like earthquakes. In addition, the existing warning and surveillance systems ...