Nepal’s past dealing with multiple disasters, including the aftermath of its civil war and the massive earthquake of 2015 may have helped the country prepare for the current COVID-19 crisis.
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Robots are helping health care workers and public safety officials more safely and quickly treat coronavirus patients and contain the pandemic. They have something in common: They’re tried and tested.
Incarcerated Americans have been tasked with washing hospital laundry, manufacturing protective equipment, disinfecting cleaning supplies and digging mass graves.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, people are stockpiling essential supplies. But policy-makers may be able to influence both the supply and demand through public announcements and advisories.
There’s no need to raid the supermarket today, but gathering supplies is a reasonable response to the prospect of disaster
The prevalence of racism and scapegoating in the face of catastrophes and disasters has a much longer history than the new coronavirus outbreak.
How could a nation like Australia came close to a humanitarian crisis during the recent bushfires? A problem-solving theory called “systems thinking” can help us find out.
Encouraging people with disabilities to lead in the emergency response is vital if we want to prevent more people becoming disabled, or dying, as a result of disaster.
Is it possible to plan for the unforeseen? Some basic principles allow careful preparation to be reconciled with quickly shifting circumstances.
Post-earthquake aftershocks are often assumed to be less violent, but that’s not always the case.
Researchers like myself are finding transformative new ways to help planners, leaders and first responders tackle disasters from afar.
Governments fail to imagine how worst-case scenarios can come about – much less plan for them. But there are things we can do.
Most of the time, these operations were not urgent – unlike the one following this disaster that summoned some 600,000 people to the site of the worst nuclear accident of all time.
Meet the unsung aid workers who put their lives on the line during war and natural disaster to make sure the dead are treated with respect – and that their grieving families get closure.
Population growth is creating a huge demand for infrastructure, even as environmental risks grow. To detect problems early, satellites can provide rich data to help assess infrastructure “health”.
Disaster information needs to come from all sections of a community at risk, and we need to leave nobody marginalised.
A chaplain of the Paris Fire Brigade helped save several items during the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral. Rarely seen, fire chaplains often take enormous risks to provide support during disasters.
Whether in direct response to these events or as a way of coping with their consequences, many Indonesians react to the unpredictability of the natural world with a “wait and see” attitude.
Donald Trump has threatened to use funds allocated for disaster relief to fund his border wall. It’s time to rethink how we frame disasters to stop politicians from using them for political gain.
Taking selfie at disaster sites is so wrong at many levels. Not only it poses risks but the action also indicates mental issues
Top contributors
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton
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Senior Lecturer, Humanitarian Emergency and Disaster Management, Charles Darwin University
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Lecturer, Universitas Gadjah Mada
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Hong Kong
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Professor of Structural Systems, University of Surrey
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PhD Candidate in Political Science and International Relations, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Disasters and Health, UCL
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Professor and Inaugural Judith Neilson Chair in Architecture, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor, Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience, University of Florida
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FXB Research Fellow, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
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Assistant Professor and Co-Director, Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security, Watts College, Arizona State University
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Curtin Research Fellow in Psychology, Curtin University
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Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University
