Disaster recovery planning for organizations is fundamental and often urgent. Planning supports the firm’s ability to recover the core business functionality of its software, data, and systems after the occurrence of a natural or man-made disaster. Organizations must take steps to protect their software, systems and data backups from natural disasters, power outages, and even terrorist attacks....

Studies of households have shown a poor perception of natural disaster risks and potential disaster severity, typically overreacting to a disaster event but underpreparing and underinsuring after periods of quiet. Many estimates of disaster response and their economic impacts haven’t taken these sub-optimal household perceptions into consideration. Here I build a model of a coastal community to...

Disaster areas are a typical usage scenario for mobile wireless communication systems (e.g. ad-hoc networks). Performance evaluation in mobile wireless communication systems is mainly done using simulation. Simulation results strongly depend on the traffic models used. Today, the traffic mainly used in disaster areas is voice traffic. In this paper, we present measurements of voice traffic done...

Most definitions of disaster resilience incorporate both the capacity to resist the initial impact of a disaster and the ability to recover after it occurs. Being able to characterize and analyze resilient behavior can lead to improved understanding not only of the capabilities of a given system, but also of the effectiveness of different strategies for improving its resiliency. This paper pres...

Social Networks such as Twitter are often used for disseminating and collecting information during natural disasters. The potential for its use in Disaster Management has been acknowledged. However, more nuanced understanding of the communications that take place on social networks are required to more effectively integrate this information into the processes within disaster management. The typ...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The aims of the study were to identify nurses' perception of disaster, whether they considered some of the events that have occurred in Hong Kong to be disasters and the types of disastrous events that they considered likely in Hong Kong. BACKGROUND The frequent occurrence of disasters has caused concern internationally. When disaster strikes, the demands on nursing staff ...

INTRODUCTION Increasingly, disasters and disaster response have become prominent issues in recent years. Despite their involvement, there have been almost no investigations into the roles of physiotherapists in emergency disaster responses. Additionally, physiotherapists are not employed in emergency disaster response by many of the principal non-governmental organizations supplying such care, ...

Recent events such as hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, power outages, and the threat of pandemics have highlighted our vulnerability to natural disasters. This vulnerability is exacerbated by many organizations’ increasing dependence on computer, telecommunications, and other technologies, and trends toward integrating suppliers and business partners into everyday business operations. In resp...

The ethical implications of business continuity/disaster recovery planning, and technology is rarely a topic discussed within the academic or practitioner literature. However, ethical decisions permeate such business continuity and disaster recovery areas as data custody, privacy, and security issues involved in the control and possession of business continuity data. In this paper, a discussion...