in the Insurance Sector " at LSE. All views expressed are our own and do not represent the views of Munich Re. We thank Eberhard Faust and Peter Höppe as well as participants of the 2011 Essex Summer School for many helpful comments. All errors are ours. The replication data and do-file will be made available upon publication at Abstract Economic damage from natural hazards can sometimes be pre...

This article proposes a conceptual framework design tool to implement Secure Place Locator (SPL) that can help the process of Disaster Management (DM) through utilizing social media, in which this software can inform disaster site and safe point for casualities evacuation in real time with Geographic Information System (GIS) aid. The discussion is limited to the system design, with design metho...

OBJECTIVE To examine patterns and predictors of primary mental health care service use following 2 major Australian natural disaster events. METHODS Utilizing data from a national minimum dataset, descriptive and regression analyses were conducted to identify levels and predictors of the use of the Access to Allied Psychological Services (ATAPS) program over a 2-year period following 2 major ...

On March 11, 2011, an earthquake occurred off the coast of Honshu, Japan. The quake was followed by a powerful tsunami that caused extensive damage to the east coast of the Tohoku and Kanto regions. This disaster destroyed the medical system in place and thus drastically reduced the ability of the healthcare system to handle the large number of casualties. During the initial response to this di...

Natural disasters can cause huge loss of life and enormous property damage to local communities. Although it is impossible to avoid the natural disasters, human suffering can be reduced by adopting information technologies to the disaster response missions. In this paper, a Web-based 3-D visualization and cluster computing system was developed to facilitate and expedite the resource distributio...

malaysia is affected by moderate environmental disasters but seldom affected by severe disaster. cameron highland mud floods 2013, hulu langat landslide 2011, tsunami 2004 and highland tower 1993 are some of environmental disaster in malaysia. some of these disasters carry heavy price tags as property and lives are damaged beyond full compensation and repair and health effects as well. this pap...