In order to contribute to the development of risk assessment, cascading natural disasters which are sequences of natural hazards was studied and the patterns of the interactions between natural disasters were investigated. The data was collected from the database of Japanese newspaper. The relationships between each natural hazards were emerged and divided into four modes: striking, undermining...

People use social networks for different communication purposes, for example to share their opinion on ongoing events. One way to exploit this common knowledge is by using Sentiment Analysis and Natural Language Processing in order to extract useful information. In this paper we present a SA approach applied to a set of tweets related to a recent natural disaster in Italy; our goal is to identi...

Floods are a devastating kind of natural disaster. About half of the population in China lives in rural areas. Therefore, it is necessary to assess the flood disaster risk of rural housings. The results are valuable for guiding the rescue and relief goods layout. In this study, we take the severe flood disaster that happened at Kouqian Town in Jilin, China in 2010 as an example to build an risk...

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...

INTRODUCTION Child maltreatment (CM) is a significant public health problem that increases following natural disasters. Ecological approaches have been used to study these complex phenomena, and the current research fits within this perspective by conducting qualitative interviews with disaster response and family-serving community agencies. The purpose of the study was to identify whether or n...

BACKGROUND The incidence of child abuse following natural disasters has not been studied thoroughly. However, parental stress and decreased social support have been linked to increased reports of child maltreatment. We hypothesized that a large-scale natural disaster (North Carolina's Hurricane Floyd) would increase the incidence of inflicted traumatic brain injury (TBI) in young children. ME...

Relief demand and transportation links availability is the essential information that is needed for every natural disaster operation. This information is not in hand once a disaster strikes. Relief demand and network condition has been evaluated based on prediction method in related works. Nevertheless, prediction seems to be over or under estimated due to uncertainties and may lead to a failur...