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{"title":"Evaluation of a new prehospital major incident triage tool: Informing current UK practice","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104740","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104740","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>During mass casualty incidents, the first Ambulance responders on scene face critical decisions about who receives medical treatment first. Effective clinical management of such incidents relies on triage, which prioritises patients based on injury severity, available resources, and the number of casualties. Various decision-making tools have been developed to assist emergency responders with triage decisions. However, there have been concerns raised about the efficacy of existing triage tools, which led to the development of a new pre-hospital triage tool for major incidents. The current study evaluated two versions of the new tool alongside the existing one used by UK emergency responders through a live exercise simulating two different major incidents. Participants offered valuable insights for the tools enhancement, notably in managing non-injured casualties and paediatric patients, and reducing cognitive load when making decisions. These findings shaped the final version of the new tool, deployed to UK Ambulance responders in Spring 2023. Findings demonstrate the importance of considering the visual presentation of triage tools as well as the inclusion of accurate physiological parameters to facilitate responder decision-making when categorising patients in mass casualty triage. Practical implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":13915,"journal":{"name":"International journal of disaster risk reduction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212420924005028/pdfft?md5=cc50b80f36fae1ec944d8e317b8c7008&pid=1-s2.0-S2212420924005028-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141936425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing tropical cyclone impacts in coastal Bangladesh: A change detection analysis on cyclone Bulbul using geospatial analysis and remote sensing techniques","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104726","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104726","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The coastal regions of Bangladesh are highly susceptible to the impacts of tropical cyclones, which frequently pose substantial challenges for disaster management. This research aimed to analyze the immediate consequences of significant catastrophic disasters imposed on coastal regions using geospatial techniques. Cloud-free satellite images and a support vector machine learning algorithm were utilized to examine the outcomes of Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) in the pre- and post-cyclone phase for assessing disaster impact. This study found that after the cyclone Bulbul, 45.08 km² of land features were changed. It also showed agriculture, bare land, dense vegetation, and settlement areas have decreased by about 4.75 km², 5.55 km², 4.56 km², and 7.72 km², respectively. Instead, the body of water grew at a terrible rate of 22.49 km² in areas turned into water body areas. Cyclone made a considerable impact by increasing the waterbody in this study area by flooding, mainly the southern portion, due to the changing process of land characteristics, which increases (waterbody) and reduces (agricultural, dense vegetation, barren land, settlement areas). The accuracy of the analysis was supported by the kappa coefficient. The results underscore the vulnerability of the coastal region and emphasize the need for effective post-cyclone recovery strategies. The study hamper valuable insights into the dynamic changes in the landscape following a cyclone, shedding light on the socio-economic and environmental implications. Further research is recommended to explore the long-term impacts of cyclones on coastal ecosystems and communities, considering the changing climate patterns.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":13915,"journal":{"name":"International journal of disaster risk reduction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142002317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing collaboration performance of NGOs by a decomposed Fuzzy approach utilizing AHP and COPRAS methods: Turkiye case","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104744","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104744","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>With the increase in disasters that cause the loss of life and property of countless people in recent years, it has become essential for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to work collaboratively and evaluate their performances. In order to assess the effectiveness of NGOs' collaboration in disaster management, the SERVQUAL model, which measures service quality and has applications in numerous fields, has been updated to reflect the demands of the modern age. The sub-criteria under the five main criteria have also been updated. This study makes use of Decomposed Fuzzy (DF) approaches, which may mitigate the language scale ambiguities that experts have when making decisions. While the criteria weights are found by the Decomposed Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (DF-AHP) approach, the alternatives are evaluated using the DF-COPRAS method, which combines the DF approach with the COPRAS method for the first time in the literature. The proposed novel model is employed to evaluate the collaboration performance of NGOs in disaster management in Turkiye. Sensitivity analysis and comparative analysis are presented as supplementary analyses of the study.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":13915,"journal":{"name":"International journal of disaster risk reduction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141936365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sensitization against Covid-19 in Algeria: Which communication strategies?","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104718","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104718","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the era of a health crisis of international concern, the authorities must elaborate on communication strategies to inform the right way about the risks and how to deal with them. In this regard, we analyze the feedback on the used communication strategies in Algeria during the Covid-19 outbreak, to identify the most impactful ones and characterize the population sensitivities. To this end, Computer Assisted Personal Interviews (CAPI) were conducted among 1500 households to collect the data. Videos and posters concerning Covid-19 information were shown to the inteviewees. Then a method inspired by that of Elimination and Choice Expressing REality is used to select the most impactful messages. Moreover, statistical models are used to identify the corresponding message to each target population. The obtained results show that videos containing real images or those with celebrities are the most impactful. In particular, to target youth (under 25), urban people, and those living in small household sizes. Videos are judged as more impactful than posters, and videos with real images are better than schematic ones. Empathy and guilt seem to play a role in the communication messages that impact the youth, and people with less than basic educational level. Furthermore, the evolution of the media explains why the elderly gave a better ranking to posters with writing, whereas the youth were more impacted by the audio-visual messages. In sum, to sensitize Algerians the government must focus on messages that contain real images, or famous people having good credibility. Unfortunately, until now, the videos using schemes are more deployed in Algeria, even those established by the World Health Organization.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":13915,"journal":{"name":"International journal of disaster risk reduction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141936363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of landscape planning in reducing damages caused by flood (case study: Nekaroud, Iran)","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104721","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104721","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Traditional flood control methods, such as gray infrastructure, are no longer sufficient to effectively manage flood events independently. Urban and landscape designers have devised design strategies to combat riverine and flash flooding in urban settings. These solutions aim to enhance urban ecological resilience by incorporating provisions for varying water levels within the urban environment. However, limited reviews have specifically explored how landscape architecture strategies can play a more effective and beneficial role in flood control. This paper aims to focus on landscape design solutions for flood adaptation and clarify the parameters in order to reduce vulnerability to floods. It emphasizes the importance of preserving the primary connection between humans and a river, and draws upon knowledge in hydraulics, ecology, flood control practices, and field observation to explore the practical solutions for reducing river floods. Moreover, it investigates the flood control method of Nekaroud in Iran, which serves as an example of inefficient flood control solutions. Surveys showed the significance of the river's position within its context and its fundamental role in enhancing spatial quality during the planning process, particularly in landscape planning. Neglecting this aspect can lead to further problems, such as ecosystem threats and limited access to the riverbank, as observed in the Nekaroud basin. Finally, the paper identifies various challenges facing the flooding at the macro, meso, and micro levels, and proposes landscape design solutions for flood adaptation that prioritize maintaining the river within its main context.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":13915,"journal":{"name":"International journal of disaster risk reduction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141936362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The movement pattern changes of population following a disaster: Example of the Aegean Sea earthquake of October 2020","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104743","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104743","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Unexpected seismic events can have a significant impact on our daily lives. Examining post-disaster population movement patterns contributes to disaster response and recovery operations. While most studies analyze population movement or displacement data, only a few examine multi-level movement patterns and consider public transportation demand. This paper aims to analyze changes in movement patterns following a major earthquake that severely affected İzmir in Türkiye, mainly using movement data from the Data for Good platform of Meta. According to the findings, on the first day following the earthquake, those traveling within İzmir considered the areas least damaged to be safer, despite the higher seismic intensity. The timeframe alignment between aftershock activity and the number of people traveling within İzmir suggests the routine movement pattern within the city was regained as the aftershocks decreased day by day. Unlike intra-city travel routines, there was an increase in the number of people moving to summer houses, located far from the center of İzmir. By November 2, 2020, three days after the earthquake, intra-city movements reached a new normal, as confirmed by public transportation use. However, intra-city travel patterns were impacted for approximately one month. This study reveals key findings from the evaluation of post-earthquake movements to improve disaster management decision making and aid crisis response and recovery operations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":13915,"journal":{"name":"International journal of disaster risk reduction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142040373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A systematic literature review on integrating disaster risk reduction (DRR) in sustainable tourism (SusT): Conceptual framework for enhancing resilience and minimizing environmental impacts","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104742","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104742","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This literature review meticulously explores the integration of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) techniques into sustainable tourism (SusT), placing a focal point on enhancing resilience and mitigating environmental impacts. By examining several disciplines, including tourism management, disaster management, environmental science, green innovation, and sustainable development, this study recognizes major themes, research gaps, and best practices in this emerging subject. It underlines the importance of SusT and the need for effective DRR programs to alleviate the negative effects of catastrophes on tourism destinations and ensure their long-term sustainability and resilience. Science Direct, Springer, SAGE Publications, and Wiley's online library were the selected databases and the inclusion criteria were based on studies that looked at how DRR measures were implemented in SusT practices and how effective they were in increasing resilience and lowering environmental effects. The selected literature reveals many concepts and ways for integrating DRR in tourism, such as pre-disaster planning, risk assessment, capacity building, and stakeholder involvement. The assessment identifies the vital part played by government agencies, local entities, and tourist service providers in organizing and coordinating these programs. It points out potential obstacles to DRR integration within the tourism sector. The review emphasizes the importance of monitoring and measuring the outcomes of DRR programs in tourism, and it suggests the use of metrics and indicators to assess how well resilience-building and environmental impact reduction strategies are implemented. These insights may be utilized by policymakers, academics, and practitioners to design methods that enhnace the resilience of tourism destinations while minimizing environmental consequences.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":13915,"journal":{"name":"International journal of disaster risk reduction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141979749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enhancing resilience in ageing: The role of age-friendly community and individual health in reducing seismic risk","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104733","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104733","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Age-friendly cities/communities (AFC) propose promising strategies for incorporating disaster resilience-building with urban planning and design interventions. However, little attention has been paid to exploring the effects of AFC concept on the resilience and health of older people from a behavioural perspective and through empirical-based approaches. This article aims to expand on the attributes of AFC by incorporating social capital, community support, and individual health factors. We further explore their roles in enhancing earthquake resilience among older adults. We develop a novel interdisciplinary analytical framework, called the Framework of Age-friendly and Resilience Behaviour for Seismic Risk Reduction (FARBSR). This framework combined with focus group meetings and cluster, regression, and factor analyses to compare the determinants of pre-disaster preparedness, coping responses, post-disaster recovery behaviour and resilience among older adults. Based on an empirical survey conducted in Taipei, Taiwan, we randomly selected 427 older adults for face-to-face questionnaire interviews. Results show that high-quality age-friendly physical environments significantly increase older adults’ adoption of adaptation behaviour and resilience. Social environments, social capital, and community support play a relatively weak but critical supporting role. Resilience and adaptation to earthquakes also result from interactions between individuals and their environment. However, the effect of individual health and cognitive factors on this dynamic is mixed. Our research opens avenues for fresh perspectives, bridging the AFC framework with the health and cognitive attributes of older adults, and highlighting implications for policy in land use planning and built environment design.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":13915,"journal":{"name":"International journal of disaster risk reduction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141936419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Emergency water distribution systems to improve spatial equality and spatial equity in a heterogeneous community with differing mobility characteristics","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104730","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104730","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Our study addresses challenges in emergency water distribution systems by proposing a hybrid method that optimizes points of distribution (PODs) and mobile delivery systems. The goal is to optimally dispense emergency water to disaster-affected populations while enhancing spatial equality and spatial equity. By considering the physiological and socioeconomic status of the disaster-affected population, our hybrid method addresses the needs of a heterogeneous community. The hybrid method consists of two models: The first model seeks to determine the optimal locations of POD for populations who are deemed physiologically able to visit PODs and pick up their emergency water. In this model, socioeconomic status is incorporated to account for different mobility characteristics of these populations. The second model focuses on determining efficient routes for mobile delivery to populations who are more likely to have physiological limitations that interfere with them traveling to PODs and picking up their emergency water. The proposed method is then validated with an application to the Flint, Michigan, water crisis. Our experiments demonstrate that, compared to the actual setup of PODs, our method shows a 69.30 % improvement in objective function value and a 7.05 % reduction in the average travel time for people to reach the PODs. Particularly beneficial for those with the longest travel time to the PODs, the model indicates a significant 25.22 % decrease in travel time, equivalent to 19.49 min. Also, our method suggests the optimal delivery solution involving 20 trucks covering 191.82 km for the target populations. We further conduct a sensitivity analysis to discuss the potential impact of various factors on the operations of the emergency water distribution system. Our results highlight that increasing the number of depots does not necessarily lead to a proportional decrease in vehicle kilometers traveled. We also identify that the most cost-effective vehicle type is a 16-foot truck. These findings provide emergency agencies and policymakers with valuable insights, paving the way for improved guidelines and policies to establish more effective emergency water distribution systems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":13915,"journal":{"name":"International journal of disaster risk reduction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142006702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mapping and assessing drought losses in China: A process-based framework analysis","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104739","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104739","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Drought has exerted significant impacts on socio-economic systems in China, yet accurately estimating its direct economic loss remains challenging. The main constraint lies in establishing a robust relationship between drought events and associated losses, compounded by insufficient loss data. To address this gap, we developed a set of annual gridded Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and applied to a process-based sigmoidal type of drought loss function. The pioneering effort produced the first gridded dataset of drought-induced economic losses for 1991 to 2016, offering valuable insights for the previously unrecorded period from 1991 to 2001. The sigmoidal curve fits well in most provinces, with R² values exceeding 0.5, and higher accuracy observed before 2010, indicating a certain level of the model's credibility before 2002. The estimated losses ranged from 3.91 billion CNY in 1991 to 22.02 billion CNY in 1999, thereby filling the statistical gap and providing critical reference information for 1991 to 2001 in China. Spatial analysis revealed a pronounced pattern of elevated losses per unit area in southern and eastern China, aligns closely with GDP distribution and demarcated by the Hu Line. This correlation underscores the significant influence of economic development on drought losses. This study also highlights the necessity of integrating policy measures into drought loss assessments to account for the impacts of adaptation and mitigation strategies. This integration is essential for enhancing the accuracy of drought-related hazards assessments and facilitating more strategic adaptation and mitigation initiatives.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":13915,"journal":{"name":"International journal of disaster risk reduction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141936501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}