iran stands in one of the most disastrous areas in the world and is exposed to different huge and horrible disasters. its settlement on the europe-asia fault makes iran a seismic region. climatically, iran is part of the afro-asian belt of deserts. the lut desert, which has been called the hottest place on earth, is settled in iran and the climate changes have led to considerable increase in fl...

background:  some  disaster-stricken  people  in  iran  are  still  experiencing  challenges  of resuming normal life several months after the incident. however, there is not sufficient and in-depth understanding of the factors affecting the complex process of post disaster recovery in iran and rural areas in particular. this study aimed to explore the status of social capital in the process of...

Despite the vast body of literature addressing public risk perceptions technological disasters such as nuclear accidents, longitudinal studies comparing pre- and post-disaster attitudes are scarce. This study examines (a) how perception factors concern, risk, political saliency, trust, toward energy policies related to power changed over time among different populations, (b) if social amplifica...

Given the right organisational attributes and sets of incentives, power grids, water systems other large technological can function reliably, even as high-reliability networks. However, high reliability remains ‘unlikely, demanding at risk’ sociologist Todd La Porte stated 25 years ago. What is much more common risk creation—the creation or exacerbation hazard, increase in exposure propagation ...

introduction: disaster occurs almost daily in the world and increases the issue of it because of high volume of population, industrialization and acts of terrorism, my country is one of the most unexpected event areas of the world. health care systems encounter special challenges in disaster management, that they include triage and treatment a large number victims and also victims' information ...

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In this article, we propose and evaluate a Mega Disaster Crisis Management System consisting of the Disaster Information Registration System and the Disaster Information Sharing System. The former categorizes various disaster information on real time reported from residents and the disaster related institutions. This registration system processes a flood of disaster information rapidly. The lat...

We construct and evaluate an integrated disaster information cloud system at the time of mega disaster. The integrated disaster information cloud system comprises the disaster information input function, disaster information output function, disaster information transmit function, department management function, and past disaster management function. In this article, we described the disaster i...

In this paper, we propose the Real-time Disaster Damage Information Sharing System for the disaster countermeasures headquarters at the time of large-scale natural disaster. This Real-time Disaster Damage Information Sharing System consists of the Post Damage Picture Smartphone Application, the Post Damage Picture Facebook Application, and the Web-GIS Disaster Information Management Site. The P...