Disaster-resistant communities, public awareness program

Map-based Public Awareness Building System for Disaster Prevention

This paper presents a map-based system in which local residents can supply and share disaster prevention information. Producing a disaster prevention map with public participation is very useful as learning and awareness building for natural disasters. Our system's unique feature introduces a card-image data structure, which makes it easy for users to add new information, such as information ab...

Public awareness and disaster risk reduction: just-in-time networks and learning.

Improving public awareness through education has been recognized widely as a basis for reducing the risk of disasters. Some of the first disaster just-in-time (JIT) education modules were built within 3-6 days after the south Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and the Bam, Pakistan, and Indonesia earthquakes through a Supercourse. Web monitoring showed that visitors represented a wide spectrum of...

Situational Awareness Technologies for Disaster Response

Responding to natural or man-made disasters, in a timely and effective manner, can reduce deaths and injuries, contain or prevent secondary disasters, and reduce the resulting economic losses and social disruption. During a crisis, responding organizations confront grave uncertainties in making critical decisions. They need to gather situational information (e.g., state of the civil, transporta...

Residents Awareness Towards Landslide Disaster In Penang

This study aims to identify the resident awareness of landslides disaster. The objective of the study is to identify the level of resident awareness of landslides disaster in Penang. A total of 240 people representing ten of each of the six districts in the state of Penang in the sample by simple random sampling method. Data collected is analyzed using the Statistical Package For Social Science...

Routing and Disaster Awareness in Optical Networks