A review commissioned in June 2001 by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) entitled 'Natural Disasters in Australia: reforming mitigation, relief and recovery arrangements' concluded that a new approach to natural disasters in Australia was needed. This approach would aim to achieve safer, more sustainable Australian communities in addition to a reduction in risk, damage and losses from...

The impact of the mudflow disaster in Sidoarjo, Indonesia, which is still being felt by community since 2006 until now, sets a background against this review mitigation efforts that have been carried out so far conducted. This study aims to find response hope programs remain evaluable, more targeted and relevant needs. research was conducted survey method using questionnaire interviews quantita...

1 College of Civil and Architecture Engineering, Northeast Petroleum University, Heilongjiang Key Laboratory of Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Protection Engineering, Daqing, 163318 China 2 College of Civil and Architecture Engineering, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing, 163318 China [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Transportation infrastructure has been identified by the US Department of Homeland Security as one of sixteen critical infrastructure systems essential to the well-being of modern society. In this study, we propose a resilience-based framework for mitigating risk to road systems, considering both community and regional scales. We utilize recent developments in modern network theory to introduce...

Iran's health system is expanding the disaster and emergency higher education programs over the country to enhance the capacity of human resources for effective and efficient disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. In this article we present an overview about the initiatives and progress of disaster and emergency health higher education in Iran. Following the Bam earthquake, i...

Earthquake is one of disaster that when happened causes many problems in economic and society in Iran, so earthquake disaster management is necessary for decreasing these problem effects. Because of most related data with earthquake and its effects have spatial properties, so GIS can be used as effective tool for managing and decision making in disaster. In some countries such as Iran, disaster...

A natural disaster is defined as an event of nature, which overwhelms local resources and threatens the function and safety of the community. Generally, disasters are the ultimate test of a community’s emergency response capability. A thoughtful and well-organised emergency strategy will be able to quickly adjust and adapt to unforeseen situations and complications. (1) An emergency strategy th...

Bakir (2004) Natural Preparedness, planning, response, recovery Proposed national mitigation strategies for earthquake risk reduction in Turkey from legislative, economic, and technical aspects. The strategies were targeted to different time frames of 1-10 years. Bui et al. (2000) Natural, man-made Pre-crisis, crisis, post-crisis Proposed a framework for designing a Global Information Network (...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has identified the four phases of disaster related planning as mitigation, preparation, response, and recovery. The recovery phase is characterized by activity to return life to normal or improved levels. Very little research considers the recovery phase, which encompasses restoring services and rebuilding disaster stricken areas of the highway tra...