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Business education and creation of awareness for disaster risk managementin Chile
(Univ. Eafit, 2016)
This paper discusses the apparent disconnection between disaster risk management research and the lack of tools for business continuity after disastrous events in Chile. As disasters are a common occurrence in business ...
Resilience for disaster risk management in a changing climate: Practitioners’ frames and practices
(Elsevier, 2015)
There is a growing use of resilience ideas within the disaster risk management literature and policy
domain. However, few empirical studies have focused on how resilience ideas are conceptualized by
practitioners, as ...
Flying real-time network for disaster assistance
(Springer, 2017)
Landslides and large floods are serious natural disasters that every year cause multiple deaths and loss in property around the world. When these events occur in areas like the “favelas” or mountain regions in coastal ...
Post-disaster reconstruction without citizens and their social capital in Llico, Chile
(Sage, 2015)
This paper describes how the inhabitants of Llico, a small fishing town
in Chile, organized to move from the coastline to avoid a tsunami that devastated
their homes and livelihoods and then to manage immediate responses. ...
Opportunities for improving disaster management in Chile: a case study
(2007)
Purpose – This paper seeks to propose measures to improve management of rainfall-related
disasters in Chile.
Design/methodology/approach – This research was carried out as a case study in the semi-arid
region of Chile ...
Mining the Media: How Community Radio Breaks Through Extractivist Discourse Articulations in a Context of Disaster and Socio-environmental Conflicts
(Routledge Journals, 2020)
Mining extractive companies have extended their operations to other realms, such as the management of media. Thus, from a space of physical intervention, they start to conquer a space of symbolic representation, creating ...
Disaster risk perception in urban contexts and for people with disabilities: case study on the city of Iquique (Chile)
(Springer, 2017)
About 15% of the world’s population suffers from some kind of disability. Inaddition to experiencing high rates of poverty, exclusion and lack of access to education,employment, health care, legal support and other services, ...
Community resilience in response to the 2010 tsunami in Chile: The survival of a small-scale fishing community
(Elsevier Ltd, 2019)
This paper examines the role of community resilience during the emergency response after the 2010 Chile earthquake and tsunami. El Morro – a fishing community that managed to survive the tsunami in the Talcahuano region – ...
Flying real-time network to coordinate disaster relief activities in urban areas
(MDPI AG, 2018)
While there have been important advances within wireless communication technology,
the provision of communication support during disaster relief activities remains an open issue.
The literature in disaster research reports ...
A Context-Aware Model to Provide Positioning in Disaster Relief Scenarios
(MDPI AG, 2015)
The effectiveness of the work performed during disaster relief efforts is highly
dependent on the coordination of activities conducted by the first responders deployed in the
affected area. Such coordination, in turn, ...