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Risk Assesment of Natural Disaster Using Web Mining

Internet of Things (IoTs) based prototype is used for disaster risk analysis and effective pre and post management of disaster stricken areas. Data mining techniques along with IoT are used to facilitate information sharing as early as possible and to ensure participation of as many as private and public service providers for major disaster prediction and recovery processes. The main challenge ...

Natural Disaster Prevention and Reduction

Natural disaster risks: An introduction

Hurricane Katrina generated the largest losses of any natural disaster in the history of the United States. The hurricane hit Florida on August 25, 2005 and Louisiana on August 29. Despite having been downgraded from a Category 4 to a Category 3 hurricane, the storm inflicted unprecedented losses. This special issue of the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty deals with the implications of catastrop...

Ontology Structure of Elements for Web-Based Natural Disaster Management Systems

Recent natural disasters have brought forth the need for disaster preparedness, planning, and management. Hurricane Katrina demonstrated the usefulness of websites in dealing with a natural disaster. However, little is known about the necessary contents and structures of web-based information management for natural disaster preparation. In this paper, we focus on developing the ontology structu...

Psychosocial Rehabilitation: Some Lessons Learned From Natural Disaster in Iran

Background: Disasters have adverse impacts on different aspects of human life. Psychosocial Rehabilitation is one of the fields which is usually overshadowed and ignored by physical rehabilitation or its importance does not receive proper attention. This research attempts to study some lessons learned from Psychosocial Rehabilitation based on disaster experiences in Iran. M...