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Strengthening the Role of Science in Disaster Risk Reduction: The Chilean Strategy
(2022)
This paper presents an integrative case-study examination of Chile's national strategy of research, development, and innovation (R&D+i) for disaster resilience and the progress towards developing the institutional conditions ...
Use of satellite images for droughts studying: The bolivian case
(International Astronautical Federation, IAF, 2017-09)
Bolivia is a country with a high risk of suffering a wide variety of natural disasters, such as forest fires, droughts, floods, earthquakes, and landslides; which may cause life losses, health impacts, property damage, and ...
Disaster Management Simulation and research integration's Virtual Test Bed proposal for The Chilean National Research Center for Integrated Natural Disaster Management (CIGIDEN)
(IEEE, 2016)
The Chilean National Research Center for Integrated Natural Disaster Management, CIGIDEN, was created in 2011 to develop, integrate, and transfer scientific knowledge to reduce the social consequences of extreme natural ...
Implementation of evacuation measures during natural disasters under conditions of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic based on a review of previous responses to complex disasters in Japan
We aimed to investigate how evacuation measures could be effectively implemented in the event of
multiple disasters caused by natural hazards under conditions of the novel coronavirus infection
(COVID-19) pandemic, which ...
Fables from the reconstruction: Lessons from Chile's recovery after the 2010 earthquake and tsunami
(2016)
Accelerating urbanization worldwide means more urban-centered disasters. Floods, earthquakes, storms and conflicts affecting densely populated areas produce significant losses in lives, livelihoods and the built environment, ...
Fables from the reconstruction: Lessons from Chile's recovery after the 2010 earthquake and tsunami
(2016)
Accelerating urbanization worldwide means more urban-centered disasters. Floods, earthquakes, storms and conflicts affecting densely populated areas produce significant losses in lives, livelihoods and the built environment, ...
Pharmacists’ roles in emergency and disasters: COVID-19 as an example
Background: Emergencies and disasters are major threats to health care systems. Coronavirus
Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is at the center of a recent emergency situation that requires increased
attention from health care ...
Land Use Planning for Disaster Resilient Communities
(2020)
Land-use planning that considers natural hazard risk is the single most important mitigation measure in minimising the increase in future disaster losses in areas of new development. The Land Use Planning for Disaster ...