Survivor guilt in natural disaster

Ad hoc wireless Sensor Network Architecture for Disaster Survivor Detection

Wireless Ad hoc sensor nodes are playing a vital role in wireless data transmission infrastructure. Due to its compact size and energy efficient structure these nodes can be successfully deployed in wireless Ad hoc infrastructure where these nodes can be efficiently transmit the disaster related sensed data to Sink nodes via Ad hoc relay stations. In this Research study we are going to propose ...

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...

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...

Goal programming-based post-disaster decision making for allocation and scheduling the rescue units in natural disaster with time-window

Natural disasters, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes cause enormous harm during each year. To reduce casualties and economic losses in the response phase, rescue units must be allocated and scheduled efficiently, such that it is a key issues in emergency response. In this paper, a multi-objective mix integer nonlinear programming model (MOMINLP) is proposed to minimize sum of weight...