Hurricanes and extreme weather events can cause widespread damage and disruption to
infrastructure services and consequently delay household and community recovery. A …

Different economic crises such as banking, financial, and currency lead to high economic
costs and have negative impact to whole society. Development of early warning systems …

Public alerting is a major challenge in a world where risks and communication modes are
constantly evolving. Since a few years, new massive alerting tools geolocating the …

An assessment framework for an evacuation warning based on regional evacuation
modeling for toxic-cloud releases is provided in this paper, which considers the impact of …

Impacts of disasters were expeditious in the last decade due to the insufficiency of existing
traditional Disaster Management (DM) practices. Though the social media discovered as a …

In emergency situations authorities need to warn the public. The conventionally used
method for warning citizens in The Netherlands is the use of a siren. Modern …

A global revolution in information and communication technologies (ICT) has occurred over
the past few decades, emerging first in industrialized countries and then in developing …

Over the last several decades the world has experienced a revolution in information and
communication technologies (ICT). Improved communications has transformed societies …

The disaster response currently involves an increasing number of different stakeholders,
and understating their wants and needs is essential to managing them. Thus, the research …

Mobile phone text messages can be used to disseminate information and advice to the
public in disasters. We sought to identify factors influencing how adolescents would respond …