Resilience of Inland Urban Areas to Disasters Occurred Due to Extreme Precipitations

Identifying the Key Resilience Factors of Urban Areas to Dealing with the COVID-19 Pandemic

Background and objective: Natural and unnatural disasters have claimed many lives and destroyed many urban spaces and communities. The consequences of these threats and today's urban issues have raised the need for action for resilient cities. December 2019 was the time for the outbreak of coronavirus in China, a disease that quickly spread throughout the world and disrupted human life. Method:...

Responding to Urban Disasters

Lesson 1 Comprehensive assessment of needs, capacities and vulnerabilities is essential for appropriate targeting ........................................................................................ 5 Assessing urban needs ................................................................................................... 5 Targeting assistance ..................................................

Social-ecological resilience to coastal disasters.

Social and ecological vulnerability to disasters and outcomes of any particular extreme event are influenced by buildup or erosion of resilience both before and after disasters occur. Resilient social-ecological systems incorporate diverse mechanisms for living with, and learning from, change and unexpected shocks. Disaster management requires multilevel governance systems that can enhance the ...

Detection of Collapsed Buidings Due to Eathquake in Urban Areas

As the initial investigation on disaster occurrence, it is very important for reducing economical losses to obtain timely observation of damages especially in metropolis. In such situation, information on changed area obtained from aerial photo analysis is promising. In this study, we propose a change detection approach objected for metropolis right after the disaster with automatic image proce...

Proposal "Towards the Enhancement of Resilience to Disasters"