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Understanding informal volunteer behavior for fast and resilient disaster recovery: an application of entrepreneurial effectuation theory
(2020)
Examine and understand how an informal volunteer’s goals and actions develop from the moment they first learn about a disaster. We examine informal volunteerism (the activities of people who work outside of formal emergency ...
A Constraint-Based Model for Fast Post-Disaster Emergency Vehicle Routing
Disasters like terrorist attacks, earthquakes, hurricanes, and volcano eruptions are usually unpredictable events that affect a high number of people. We propose an approach that could be used as a decision support tool ...
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 ...
Transformation of social capital during and after a disaster event: the cases Chañaral and Diego de Almagro, Atacama Region, Chile
(Springer, 2020)
This article analyzes the impact of socio-natural disasters on social capital at a local level, studying the cases of the communities of Chanaral and Diego de Almagro after the flooding and mudflow disasters of 2015. ...
Toward a decolonial turn in resilience thinking in disasters: Example of the Mapuche from southern Chile on the frontlines and faultlines
(ELSEVIER, 2016)
Resilience thinking has moved into the forefront of global discourses on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and emergency response and recovery. Social justice frameworks have long been part of resilience thinking, conceptualizing ...
Handbook for disaster assessment
(ECLAC, 2014-04)
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has been a pioneer in the field of disaster
assessment and in the development and dissemination of a disaster assessment methodology. Its approach ...
A methodological approach to gender analysis in natural disaster assessment: a guide for the Caribbean
(CEPAL, 2004-05)
The Caribbean region is highly prone to natural disasters, with he increased occurrence in recent years of hurricanes, storms, floods, storm surges and volcanic eruptions. These bring about the loss of lives, property and ...