HAZARDS 2002 natural and human made disasters are still causing devastating suffering for Human made hazards (air and water pollution) cover the general topics of http://www.hazards2002.metu.edu.tr/
Extractions: May 30.2002 Deadline for Abstract submission June 30.2002 Notification of Authors August 15, 2002 Deadline for Preregistration September 1, 2002 Deadline for cancellation of hotel accommodation and tour reservation. October 3-6, 2002 Prepared by: Dogan Kisacik NINTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON NATURAL AND HUMAN-MADE HAZARDS Disaster Mitigation in the Perspective of the New Millennium Falez Hotel Antalya, TURKEY E-mail haz2002@metu.edu.tr Host Institutions Disaster Management Implementation Earthquake Engineering Research Center and Research Center new new new new new new new new new new new new new Natural and human made disasters are still causing devastating suffering for humanity in the new millennium. Identification of risks, analysis of hazards and effective mitigation as well as preparedness against disasters pose important challenges for both the research community and for the society at large. It is acknowledged that an interdisciplinary approach is necessary for finding solutions for the protection of populations, the environment and the structures.
Harvard From such a perspective, this disaster is both natural and humanmade.7 Washington, DC Office of the Surgeon general, Department of the Army, http://www.usuhs.mil/psy/harvard.html
Extractions: Disasters are an all-too-common element of modern life in the United States and worldwide. The recent earthquake in Russia, the floods in Texas, the Midwest, and the South, and the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City are poignant reminders of this fact. Traumatic events (defined as experiences outside of the range of normal events, and including individual trauma such as victimization through violent crime or injury in a motor vehicle accident) and disasters (traumatic events that affect an entire community) occur more commonly than is generally appreciated. In a random sample of 1007 young adults from a large health maintenance organization, Breslau and colleagues estimated the lifetime prevalence of exposure to traumatic events in the United States to be 39.1%. Norris calculated that 6-7% of the U.S. population is exposed to a disaster or trauma each year, ranging from motor vehicle accidents and crime to hurricanes and tornadoes.
Extractions: (advertisement) Home Specialties Resource Centers CME ... Patient Education Articles Images CME Advanced Search Consumer Health Link to this site Back to: eMedicine Specialties Emergency Medicine Emergency Medical Systems Last Updated: January 19, 2005 Rate this Article Email to a Colleague Synonyms and related keywords: disasters, natural disasters, catastrophe, cataclysmic episode, technological disasters, human-made disasters, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, toxic spills, nuclear mishaps, war, terrorism, potential injury creating event system, PICE system, multiple casualty incidents, MCIs, incident command system, ICS, Federal Response Plan, National Disaster Medical System, disaster medical assistance teams, DMATs, Marine Corps Chemical and Biological Immediate Response Team, CBIRT AUTHOR INFORMATION Section 1 of 9 Author Information Introduction To Disaster Planning: The Scope And Nature Of The Problem classifying Disasters Definitions And Terminology ... Bibliography
Extractions: Center September 24, 2005 DISASTER RESEARCH 399 December 30, 2003 TABLE OF CONTENTS Community Planning Fellowship Program ASPEP's Second Annual Student Contest and General Call for Papers NDSU Call For Papers on Emergency Management in Higher Education Call for Submissions ... Conferences and Training In an effort to raise awareness and ensure that hazard mitigation is effectively incorporated into future urban and rural planning, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Community Planning Fellowship Program is expanding its role as an opportunity for graduate planning students to familiarize themselves with hazard mitigation as an aspect of planning. The Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds, of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is joining FEMA this year to support a total of three fellows who will study aspects of how communities, regional organizations, and states can effectively address watershed planning and floodplain management issues. Applications are due February 17, 2004, and the fellowship will begin in the summer of 2004. Fellows will be based at FEMA headquarters in Washington, D.C. for approximately 9 weeks and will receive financial support for one year of related research. Complete eligibility and fellowship requirements, along with an application packet, are available at
Red Cross Red Crescent - Speech On Natural Disasters During the past decade less people have died in natural disasters, but more and more and other humanmade disasters and increases vulnerability. http://www.ifrc.org/docs/news/speech02/evo170702.asp
Red Cross Red Crescent - Speech On Relief Assistance but also those displaced by natural and human made disasters, The general Assembly has before it the report of the Secretary general on the subject http://www.ifrc.org/docs/news/speech00/ah271100.asp
Extractions: - United Nations Volunteers (UNV) Closing statements Discussion paper Panel Panel Report Date: 20 January 2005 Time: Venue: Kairaku room Chair: H.E. GJ Mtshali, Ambassador, South African Permanent Mission in Geneva Rapporteur: Dr. Kenneth WESTGATE, Senior Regional Advisor, UNDP-BCPR Speakers: People-Centred Governance
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FMR 8 August 2000 violations of human rights or natural or humanmade disasters, The argument that natural disaster-induced displacement should be included as some http://www.fmreview.org/text/FMR/08/09.htm
Extractions: The Kashmiri Pandits are minority Hindus in the Kashmir valley. In December 1989 they started leaving their homes in response to separatist and fundamentalist threats and attacks on their homes, businesses and temples.(1) Imposition of direct central government rule between 1990 and 1996 did not bring an end to terrorist violence. By 1996, approximately 250,000 Kashmiri Pandits had been displaced to Jammu, Delhi and elsewhere, where they still remain. Considering the size of the terrorist groups and their level of external assistance, it is hard to see how this internal displacement could have been prevented. The argument that the Pandits should have remained in the valley and not succumbed to threats overlooks the fact that law and order had broken down, the authorities could offer little protection and fear was all pervasive. The Pandits had no option but to move on their own to safe areas. Displacement was inevitable. The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement were presented to the UN Commission on Human Rights in 1998 by Francis Deng, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Internally Displaced Persons. They set out the rights of IDPs and the obligations of states to offer protection before internal displacement, during situations of displacement and during post-conflict return and reintegration.(2) The Guiding Principles, though not legally binding, are intended to serve as the basis for dialogue between governments and other humanitarian actors
Extractions: GA/9832 Continuing its debate on strengthening the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, the General Assembly this afternoon adopted, without a vote, a resolution on international cooperation and coordination for the human and ecological rehabilitation and economic development of the Semipalatinsk region (Kazakhstan). By the terms of that text, it stressed the need for extra efforts in solving problems with regard to the region and its population. The Assembly invited the Secretary-General to pursue a consultative process, with the participation of interested States and relevant United Nations agencies, on modalities for mobilizing the necessary support to seek solutions to the problems and needs of the Semipalatinsk region. It also called upon him to continue his efforts to enhance world public awareness of the problems and needs of the Semipalatinsk region. The Assembly also adopted, without a vote, a resolution on emergency international assistance for peace, normalcy and rehabilitation of Tajikistan, by whose terms it stressed that Tajikistan has entered a new phase of post-conflict peace-building, which requires continued international economic assistance. It encouraged Member States and others concerned to continue assistance to alleviate the urgent humanitarian needs and to offer support for the post-conflict rehabilitation and reconstruction of Tajikistan's economy.
Implications For example, in 1983, the general Accounting Office reported on four hazardous natural and human made disasters Some therapeutic and epidemiological http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu21le/uu21le08.htm
Extractions: Contents Previous Next Implications Most models of post-disaster recovery are based on the aftermath of natural events. As Kliman and Kliman (1982) note: "We know a great deal about the strategies for crisis intervention that are most effective in helping individuals and communities deal with natural disasters. Much less is known through experience about what kinds of intervention strategies are most helpful when disasters are wrought by people." Thus, Centralia's experience has many implications for those who are interested in assisting communities to recover from industrial contamination. Perhaps the most critical implication is that recovery (or transformation) is not a separate stage but is going on throughout a contamination situation. We need to be sensitive to where a situation falls on the stage model matrix at any particular time, in order to develop effective recovery (or transformation) strategies. For example, a community in which most perceive contamination as a "warning" and in which the issue is "contained," warrants a very different approach from one in which there is intense disagreement over the definitional stage and in which emergent grass-roots groups are plentiful. Public programmes to assist recovery may be more feasible in the first case than in the second. If certain areas are more likely than others to be victimized by disasters, the existence of a disaster subculture may help them respond to the problem. Our experience with contamination disasters is too new to permit much more than speculation on this point, but the Centralia case suggests that a general disaster subculture (as opposed to one that is grounded only in chronic contamination) may hinder, rather than help, the development of effective responses to industrial contamination. We need to carry out additional research on the specific characteristics of disaster subcultures resulting from experience with various kinds of disasters, and on the relationship of those subcultures to community response and recovery.
Forced Migration humanmade disasters- This category of disaster can be interpreted broadly and This category includes people displaced as a result of natural disasters http://www.columbia.edu/itc/hs/pubhealth/modules/forcedMigration/definitions.htm
Extractions: and phrases used in the field of humanitarian relief. A disaster is a calamitous event resulting in loss of life, great human suffering and distress, and large-scale material damage. (source: The Sphere Project Disaster events can cause immediate injury and loss of life and are often equally as devastating to infrastructure, causing severe damage, particularly in developing countries. Some types of disasters and recent examples of each: Hurricanes- In 1998, Hurricane Mitch affected the lives of 6.5 million people, leaving 3.5 million people dependent on aid in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. Drought- In 2000, Ethiopia and Eritrea suffered their most severe drought since 1984. The countries continue to suffer from severe drought conditions, which has drastically increased the number of people relying on food aid. Earthquakes- In 2001, a massive earthquake hit the state of Gujarat in India. Estimates of those killed in the earthquake vary from 20,000 to 100,000. Hundreds of thousands were left homeless. The government of India estimates that 15 million Indians were affected to some degree.
Extractions: Volume 16, No. 3 (November 1998) Articles by: R. Denise Blanchard-Boehm , "Understanding Public Response to Increased Risk from Natural Hazards: Application of the Hazards Risk Communication Framework," pp. 247-278. L. Erwin Atwood and Ann Marie Major , "Exploring the 'Cry Wolf' Hypothesis," pp. 279-302. The "cry wolf" hypothesis argues that individuals who have experienced predictions of disasters that do not materialize will discount the validity of subsequent disaster warnings. This belief in the false alarm effect is widely mentioned in the disaster literature, and anecdotal material appears to support the validity of the hypothesis. This study of a false earthquake warning supports experimental findings indicating that cancellation of a disaster warning leads to a false alarm effect. Following cancellation of the threat by the non-appearance of the predicted earthquake, 46.7 percent of the panel respondents indicated that they would pay less attention whereas only 16.7 percent said that they would pay more attention to a future earthquake prediction. The panel data also suggest that the mass media were substantial contributors to the observed false alarm effect, while at the same time the media escaped blame for their contributions to the problem. (AA)
Effects Of Traumatic Stress In A Disaster Situation disaster impact will be similar for both natural and humanmade The effects of natural disasters seem no longer detectable in comparison to control http://www.musc.edu/cvc/effects.html
Extractions: It is important to help survivors recognize the normalcy of most stress reactions to disaster. Mild to moderate stress reactions in the emergency and early post-impact phases of disaster are highly prevalent because survivors (and their families, community members and rescue workers) accurately recognize the grave danger in disaster (Young et al, 1998). Although stress reactions may seem 'extreme', and cause distress, they generally do not become chronic problems. Most people recover fully from even moderate stress reactions within 6 to 16 months (Baum and Fleming, 1993; Green et at,1994; La Greca et at, 1996; Steingtass and Gerrity, 1990) (Excerpted from Raphael, Disaster Mental Health Response Handbook, NSW Health, 2000). In fact, resilience is probably the most common observation after all disasters. In addition, the effects of traumatic events are not always bad. Although many survivors of the1974 tornado in Xenia, Ohio, experienced psychological distress, the majority described positive outcomes: they learned that they could handle crises effectively, and felt that they were better off for having met this type of challenge (Quarantetti, 1985).Disaster may also bring a community closer together or reorient an individual to new priorities, goals or values. This concept has been referred to as 'posttraumatic growth' by some authors (eg. Calhoun, 2000), and is similar to the 'benefited response' reported in the combat trauma Literature (Ursano et al, 1996) (Excerpted from Raphael, Disaster Mental Health Response Handbook, NSW Health, 2000).
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Extractions: September 11, 2001, changed America and affected each and every one of us. While there is no way to know when, where, or if terrorists will strike again, the nation has devoted its attention and resources to securing our homeland. In Iowa, homeland security efforts to make our nation, state, and citizens safe, is a priority. As the result of a partnership between citizens, state, local governments, and the private sector, Iowa is more secure and better prepared to prevent and respond to acts of terrorism and other disasters, natural, or human-made. The State of Iowa has done much to secure the State and its citizens. One of Iowa's priorities was to assess the State's resources and capabilities and develop a homeland security strategy for the State. The Iowa Homeland Security Strategy: Envisioning the Future is built upon the thorough evaluation of the State's security strengths and weaknesses and a determination of how best to maximize the strengths and minimize or eliminate the weaknesses. The Strategy is broad and comprehensive and is designed to meet the State's immediate security needs with resources currently available, given the current threat conditions and the likely terrorism scenarios the State can expect.
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Extractions: Be Prepared E-911 IMAC Search ... Home What is Emergency Management? Emergency management is a coordinated effort, involving local, state, and federal government agencies as well as volunteer organizations and businesses. Within an integrated emergency management framework, these entities assist citizens and their communities to prepare for, respond to, recover from, and eliminate or reduce the effects of natural, man-made, civil, and technological emergencies and disasters. Over the past 50 years, the meaning and scope of homeland security and emergency management has significantly changed in response to changes in the political, military, and natural environments. During this time, emergency management has evolved from a very narrow civil defense focus to providing a much broader array of services in response to human-made, natural, and technological hazards, and now to include issues of homeland security. The evolution has also encompassed a shift from federal-based initiatives to those that are state and locally developed and delivered. Within this evolving framework, the Homeland Security and Emergency Management Division works to implement current emergency management and homeland security policy. By working collaboratively with local, state, and federal agencies, with private businesses and citizens, and by providing technical assistance and support, we are expanding our ability to deliver world-class emergency management and homeland security services to our customers.
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Extractions: AGCI Session I: Natural Hazards and Global Change Session Chairs: Louis Walter and E. L. Quarantelli - July 10 to 20, 1996 VI. Summary Recommendations and Actions The following is a distillation and summary of the recommendations made by the workshop groups that explored the five themes discussed in the previous chapter. Essentially, they call for citizens to re-think the way we live and how we shape our human settlements; to consider how our settlements are threatened by natural hazards and how they contribute to disasters. At the same time, we must recognize that while all levels of government have important roles to play, the roots of effective mitigation must occur at the local level. On the other hand, disaster mitigation is a global priority. The U. S., together with other disaster-prone nations of the world, should share the benefits of extensive disaster experience and broad interdisciplinary disaster mitigation research. Collaboration of international mitigation efforts at all levels should form a major component of U. S. development and humanitarian efforts. It is important to once again emphasize the connection between natural disasters and global change. A society resilient to natural hazards is likely to be more resilient to longer time scale hazards such as those which fall under the heading of global change. Increasingly, the global change and natural hazards communities can benefit from each others' thinking and technologies in building a more sustainable society.
UNESCO Natural Sciences Portal Every day, natural disasters such as floods and droughts, and humanmade disasters such as pollution, Assistant Directorgeneral for natural Sciences http://www.unesco.org/science/edito_en03.shtml
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Extractions: This pamphlet introduces consumers to various health and human services programs available through eight Florida state agencies. It includes information on health care facilities; financial and health care assistance; insurance; services for elders, disabled persons, children, and veterans; and other useful information. The pamphlet also includes web sites that provide connections to other state and federal programs.
