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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Post-Disaster Response"”.
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Enabling smart city resilience: post-disaster response and structural health monitoring
… in addition to natural and human-made disasters. Moreover, recent events constantly remind us of the tremendous devastation that natural and human-made disasters can wreak on society. As such, emergency response procedures and resilience are among the crucial dimensions of any Smart …
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A Latent Resilience Capacity: Individual and Organizational Factors Associated with Public Library Managers' Willingness to Engage in Post-Disaster Response and Recovery
… have explicit emergency management missions in disaster response. Scholars and government officials call for identifying key local actors and developing a more collaborative emergency preparedness approaches prior to disaster situations. In practice, emergency officials seldom recognize …
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A Comparative Study of Culture and Cultural Heritage in Humanitarian Aid Efforts: Post-Earthquake Haiti and Post-Tsunami Aceh
… and practices affected the humanitarian aid response to disasters in Haiti and Aceh Province, Indonesia. It examines the importance of local knowledge in post-disaster response situations and how aid workers' "expertise" interplays with local knowledge, decision-making structures, and …
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Transportation system modeling and applications in earthquake engineering
… and commercial activities, but also impair post-disaster response and recovery, leading to substantial socio-economic consequences. Therefore, understanding and modeling the disastrous impact on the transportation infrastructures and the corresponding changes of travel patterns under extreme …
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Decision-centric resource-efficient semantic information management
… especially resource-poor environments such as post-disaster response and recovery scenarios. In this dissertation, we base ourselves on the state-of-the-arts studies, and build a set of techniques as well as a holistic information management system that not only account for data level …
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Milneburg, New Orleans: An Anthropological History of a Troubled Neighborhood
… have rebuilt it. In its last iteration as a post-Katrina neighborhood, the residents reestablished the Milneburg Neighborhood Association in order to define its boundaries, gain control of its redevelopment and restrict who lived there as well as what activities were permitted. This is a case …
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Numerical Investigation of Tsunami-Borne Debris Interaction with Coastal Bridges
… infrastructure plays a vital role in post-disaster response and recovery efforts. Despite the availability of data from several debris-related studies, the majority of them have been focused on buildings, and very limited information is available for bridges. Furthermore, the majority …
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Post-Disaster Road Network Resilience Assessment
… is increasing worldwide. Following natural disasters, such as flooding, earthquakes, tsunami, hurricanes, and volcanoes, transportation systems are disrupted resulting in cities, towns, and villages being isolated for a period of time causing post-disaster response issues, evacuation …