Natural disasters pose serious threats to large urban areas, therefore understanding and predicting human movements is critical for evaluating a population's vulnerability and resilience and developing plans for disaster evacuation, response and relief. However, only limited research has been conducted into the effect of natural disasters on human mobility. This study examines how natural disas...

The challenges facing poor and marginalised communities in today’s society are multiple and complex; from economic crises, to natural disasters, to environmental degradation and conflict, all of which are increasing poor people’s vulnerability and posing significant challenges to securing their livelihoods. Climate change threatens to exacerbate the problem further by creating an additional lay...

This paper gives an initial evaluation of approaches to chance discovery and management, a new research field invented by Yukio Ohsawa. Our aims in this preliminary report are very modest. First, we briefly describe research work done with the intent to detect chances (i.e., opportunities and risks) in various application areas such as the web, natural disasters, or histories of bankruptcy. Sec...

As we move further into the 21 century businesses in the electronics industry will face increasingly turbulent times. This paper focuses on one particular kind of turbulence: socalled Acts of God, i.e. natural disasters like floods, droughts, waves, fires and other extreme weather events. While all businesses have always been subject to these disasters, they are occurring to an unprecedented de...

BACKGROUND The fields of expertise of natural disasters and complex emergencies (CEs) are quite distinct, with different tools for mitigation and response as well as different types of competent organizations and qualified professionals who respond. However, natural disasters and CEs can occur concurrently in the same geographic location, and epidemics can occur during or following either event...

introduction: natural disasters may strike a community at any time, causing death, injuries and material destruction. knowledge of the epidemiology of disaster impacts is essential to determine effective responses. iran is one of the most aired regions of the world, and suffers frequent natural disasters during the last decade were reported four major earthquake, one flood and the worst drought...