Australian emergency services are using social media for a number of purposes during disasters. What they are not doing well is analysing social media data in real time to improve disaster management.
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If the forecasts are right, the US could be facing more natural disasters this year – on top of the coronavirus pandemic. Local governments aren't prepared.
The big questions don't get much bigger. After the Lisbon earthquake killed thousands, philosopher Voltaire took aim at Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and skewered his view that God is good.
What is political will or political commitment to disaster risk reduction? Why is it important to measure political commitment? And how to measure it?
Wildfire smoke makes it harder for firefighters' bodies to fight off viral invaders. But firefighting conditions make the usual protective measures nearly impossible.
Insurance companies are paying out hefty claims due to COVID-19. Here's how catastrophe bonds come into play.
Philanthropy in the form of financial donations is not a solution to the natural disasters caused by climate change. A new philanthropy of social change is needed.
In the Southeast US, tornadoes strike at night more often than in other regions. This poses special challenges for getting early warnings to the public.
By providing users with pertinent and reliable disaster-related information, Twitter has the potential to reduce the impact of a disaster. So why aren't public organizations using it properly?
US military leaders have to plan for operations all over the world, so they can't afford to ignore climate change or debate its causes.
Most of us are familiar with the concept of psychological trauma. But what is collective trauma, and how can we tackle it in the wake of the bushfire crisis?
We do a disservice to survivors of major tragedies when we call them "heroes." Instead, we should change our policies and attitudes to help them truly survive the disaster.
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.
Morrison's hope for clear air for his messages is being stymied by the crisis around deputy Nationals leader Bridget McKenzie, as more damaging information emerges against her in the sports rorts affair.
Earth's biggest rivers are streams of warm water vapor in the atmosphere that can cause huge rain and snowfall over land. Climate change is making them longer, wetter and stronger.
Universities can help students affected by the bushfires by learning from what others have done in past crises.
Estimates of the cost of Victoria's 2009 Black Saturday fires provide a staring point for calculating the much bigger cost of these ones.
GDP is well suited to many things, but not to measuring the impact of disasters.
Puerto Rico's January earthquakes came after many foreshocks and have been followed by numerous aftershocks. Scientists are studying these sequences to improve earthquake forecasting.
Displaced by a landslide, Ugandan survivors could not speak the language of the region where they were relocated - but music allowed them a voice.
Top contributors
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Professor of Hazards and Disaster Risk Sciences, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Earthquake Science, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Researcher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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Carl O. Sauer Professor of Geography, Louisiana State University
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Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Director, Security and Resilience Program, Northeastern University
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Associate Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Sr. Associate Vice President for Research and Research Professor, University of Oregon
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Scientia Professor and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
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Research Fellow, Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfires, University of Wollongong
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Risk Scientist, Risk Frontiers Natural Hazards Research Centre, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor, Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience, University of Florida
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Research associate, University of Wollongong
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Reader in Physical Geography and Natural Hazards, Coventry University
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Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and Planning, University of Tasmania
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Curtin University
