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In the aftermath of natural disasters, borrowers seeking credit from traditional sources, such as banks, may encounter higher interest rates than in pre-disaster periods. We examine the lending behavior of peer-topeer (P2P) platforms in the wake of disasters. Since P2P platforms involve individual investors in making lending decisions, they accommodate both profit motives and empathetic responses. Empirical evidence from psychology suggests that empathy can lead to prosocial behavior. Consistent with this assertion, we find that loans affected by natural disasters have lower interest rates than comparable loans not issued in the wake of disasters. Our study finds that lenders are involved in a prosocial behavior and are ready to give away some part of their interest income to help the communities in need. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this research is to determine the challenges that hinder the Humanitarian Logistics (HL) process of natural disasters, the causes of the challenges that often arise from natural disasters, and the methods applied to solve these problems. The methods used in this research are a Systematic Literature Review, Publish or Perish 7 application (data analysis method), and the Scopus Search option. The researchers found that the challenges hindering the process of HL are location, network, waste management, and financial funds. Causes of these challenges are generally uncertainty, constraints and immobility, limited resources, and failure of minor problems (such as lack of appropriate responses, delay times, personnel shortages, injustice, and conflict/competition). Methods that are applied to these challenges mostly consist of mathematical models, the articles that don't use mathematical models usually focus on potential solutions, or already have clear solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Natural disasters that occur have an impact on the agricultural sector. The impact of the disaster on the agricultural community in the form of failed harvests and damage to farming facilities, in addition to causing considerable losses to the community it is also detrimental to the government because in the end it can have an impact on food shortages. The agricultural sector has an important role in West Muna Regency, a sustainable planning is needed and in accordance with the conditions in the region. Therefore, this study aims to analyze agropolitan area planning in the agricultural sector in West Muna Regency based on natural disaster mitigation. The data used in this research is agricultural sector data, especially food crops in West Muna Regency. The Location Quotient method is used to analyze efficient food crop base commodities. Based on the results of the study, it was found that an efficient food plant base commodity was obtained with geographic conditions as an Agropolitan Area. In addition, commodities that are suitable for the disaster that occurred in West Muna Regency were also obtained. Thus the availability of food raw materials is still available and maintained, and can increase competitiveness in the agricultural sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Indonesia is located on the ring of fire and the meeting of 3 large tectonic plates, namely the Indo-Australian plate, Eurasian plate and the Pacific plate. Indonesia is often referred to as the Ring of Fire so that many natural disasters, especially earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and landslides. As a result of this natural disaster clearly gives a great loss in social and economic terms. The losses are spread in the infrastructure sector and public facilities such as public roads and offices, residential areas, then the agricultural sector such as damage to agricultural land, to the socio-cultural sector that has a direct impact on the welfare of the community around the area of natural disasters. From an economic perspective, the occurrence of natural disasters has a direct impact on the level of the economy in Indonesia. One way in financing disaster risk that can be done is by insurance services or insurance companies. Insurance companies are referred to as individual risk insurers who take out insurance. Therefore, this research aims to make a mathematical model to determine the amount of premiums that must be paid by the government. Determination of the aggregation claim model uses data on the number of claims taken from the number of events and the amount of claims taken from the amount of losses due to natural disasters in Indonesia. From the results of the study obtained optimal insurance premiums paid by the local government. Natural disaster insurance premiums are determined using the Black Scholes Method, where the value of the premiums is obtained from numerical simulation results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Natural disasters leave penetrating scars on affected communities. For a state like China, which spares little effort to maintain harmony, disasters present a particularly thorny governance challenge. How does the Chinese state manage post-disaster uncertainty? We address this question through extensive interviews, conducted over the course of nearly a decade, in the city of Dujiangyan in Sichuan - the closest city to the epicenter when an earthquake struck on May 12, 2008. We document how, during the decade after the earthquake, some of the supposedly temporary disaster relief measures continue to figure prominently. They represent deviations from the political norm under increasingly tightened party-state rule. We argue that post-quake emergencies inadvertently give rise to a robust civil space for participation, consultation, engagement, and deliberation - a nascent Tocquevillian space. Yet this civil space is placed under the watchful eyes of the state. Thus, the prospect of such space maturing into civil society remains doubtful. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Hurricanes and natural disasters are often accompanied by a tidal wave of property-coverage lawsuits, and the same can be expected in the wake of the devastation wrought on the Texas coast by Hurricane Harvey in August of 2017. Hurricane Harvey is reportedly tied with Hurricane Katrina as the costliest tropical cyclone on record, inflicting $125 billion in damage, primarily from catastrophic flooding in the Houston- metropolitan area and the broader Southeast Texas coastal region. (National Hurricane Center, 2018). Although these lawsuits have not yet begun winding their ways through the appellate courts in large numbers, now is a good time to look at changes and rulings in the law that will affect those claims. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the paper is to analyze the essence, characteristics and capabilities of weather derivatives as successful tools for financial management of natural disaster risk. In particular, it is considered the risk from natural disasters due to climate-related events (weather-related hazards), such as extreme precipitations and temperatures, storms, heatwaves, snowfalls, floods and droughts. The paper importance is based on the reasoned expectations that climate change will increase the frequency and intensity of weather-related hazards, which in turn will adverse impact on the economic and sustainable development of the companies. It is stated that the weather derivative is a financial contract whose payoff depends upon weather variables (underlying asset) such as temperature, precipitation or wind, observed at a fixed location during a specified interval of time. Тhese derivatives are very suitable for industries whose profitability is largely determined by the weather-related hazards. It is demonstrated that an industrial farmer loses whenever there is too much rain (flooded lands) or not enough rain (droughts). It has also been shown, that usually, energy producers and energy consumers enter into the weather derivative contracts. Most used weather indexes in the weather derivatives are described: Degree day (DD); Cooling degree days (CDD); Heating degree days (HDD); Energy degree days (EDD); Cumulative Amount of Temperature (CAT); Growing degree days (GDD). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the past decade significant attention has been given to the development of tools that attempt to measure the vulnerability, risk or resilience of communities to disasters. Particular attention has been given to the development of composite indices to quantify these concepts mirroring their deployment in other fields such as sustainable development. Whilst some authors have published reviews of disaster vulnerability, risk and resilience composite indicator methodologies, these have been of a limited nature. This article describes action research that examines all kinds of natural and industrial disasters and their influence on the world economy. It also gives a detailed description of the structures dealing with emergency situations in some African countries and proves that these countries lack educational institutions which would teach people to manage the emergency situations and coordinate their activities with international organizations for providing more efficient assistance to people affected by the disaster. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As social media use on mobile devices has been integrated in people's daily lives, corporations began to target the publics on corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities on mobile devices. In the context of a natural disaster, this study examines how publics respond to CSR-based initiatives by way of mobile corporate social responsibility (mCSR), including gratifications, social media engagement, perceived CSR motives, and the relationship outcomes as associated with mCSR practice. An online survey was conducted by sampling with 1,433 nationally representative adults in the United States. Findings indicated that four broad types of gratifications, such as technological convenience, social interaction, recreation, and information exchange, significantly influenced relationship outcomes such as satisfaction, commitment, distrust, trust, and control mutuality. Results also demonstrated that perceived CSR motives and social media engagement on mobile devices were significantly related to relationship outcomes, providing empirical evidence for the important role and potential mCSR communications can play in engaging publics and cultivating relationships during natural disasters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a driver of traveler behavior, travel risk gains attention from academic and practitioner in the past decade. While a series of risk studies focus on terrorism, political instability, limited studies have focused on natural disaster and traveler perspectives. This study adopted a bottom up approach to identify the type of Natural disaster travel risk from Indonesian tourist. Hence a mixed method sequential approach was applied. Initially, 52 respondents completed a semi-structured interview in Qualitative phase. The results were then verified by 605 respondents in a mall intercept survey in Quantitative phase. This study shows there are seven types of travel risks associated with natural disaster context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Climate change represents great physical and transition risks to the economy in the form of disasters and unaccustomed changes. Although these risks are recognized in the literature, there is still no unequivocal consensus on how to react or who should react to climate change and shield the economy against these risks. However, looking at the financial side of the economy, changes in investors' behaviors can give us ideas on how climate change can disrupt the financial market. In my work, I examine financial markets' reactions to climate change. Specifically, I focus on capital flows' different behaviors to disastrous climate events. Capital flows are key contributors to the global economy through financial markets: they can improve the financial sector's competitiveness in a country, promote investment, and help to smooth consumption. However, their large size and volatility represent potential risks to the global and local financial systems. The literature has assessed potential drivers of capital flows, but we lack information about the effect of climate change. I examine how climate events can be new drivers of capital flows, especially for sudden changes. Disastrous climate events may drive capital flows via two channels. First, climate events can be country-specific pull factors as investors might pull back from a country after a weather shock. Second, they might represent a global push factor: after an extreme climate event strikes outside the country, investors might still withdraw even without suffering actual loss, if the country is prone to disasters. To understand financial markets' true reactions to climate change, I aim to identify its impact by examining local and regional climate effects. To quantify the local aspect, I proxy the severity of climate events through two methods. First, I evaluate the duration of disastrous events with respect to countries' climate history. Therefore, a longer flood event will count more than a shorter one. Second, I control for the population's exposure to climate events. Hence, I capture the extent to which the population has been affected by a disaster, rather than focusing on possibly large but separate disasters in a country. This method can highlight that a storm might have a more significant effect in the densely populated Chicago than in the Sahara. To capture whether climate change represents a regional push factor, I count regional disasters around a country quarterly. Both local and regional methods use climate event indices that capture climate change by focusing on common disasters. Specifically, the indices count droughts, extreme temperatures, floods, and storms. These new indices measure climate change more accurately, as they incorporate more than one disaster contrary to the common procedure in the literature, focusing solely on storms, for example. I find that both regional and local indices cause sudden increases in capital inflows. My research has sound policy implications: countries experiencing sudden changes in capital flows are more susceptible to macroeconomic instability and may suffer more easily from other financial risks. Therefore, understanding whether climate change is a new driver of capital flows, domestic institutions can prepare their countries better for sudden changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Copyright of International Conference: Crisis Management Days is the property of University of Applied Sciences Velika Gorica and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Design/methodology/approach The paper is looking for the answer to the fundamental question of natural disasters and their unimpeded existence in spite of man's preferences, their characteristics, some theoretical observations about their consequences, the suitable models for Natural Disaster Management, and, in the end, the Model for measuring the Resilience of the Community according to the place it presents. The paper is divided into 6 parts: 1. Introduction that observes the basic theoretical ground for the material in the paper followed by the four major parts: 2. Natural disasters; 3. Consequences from Natural disasters; 4. Natural disasters Management; 5. Some considerations about determination of the Variables for measuring the resilience based on the location; 6. The model for measuring the resilience according to the place; and 7. Final observations and recommendations. The paper follows the qualitative approach. It is based on Literature review the Authors have made i.e. the overview of the theoretical findings on the basic questions and conceptual determination of the meaning of Natural disasters, the consequences of them, their management, and the proposed variables for measuring the resilience according to the model mentioned giving, at the same time, some personal concrete suggestions for amending it. Findings Scientific review of the knowledge related to Natural disasters and the proposal of an amended model for determining variables about measuring resilience of the communities according to the place. Research limitations/implications: The presented model for determination of the resilience of the communities according to the place should be implemented designing a questionnaire and a conducted survey. Not having the necessary practical data is, according to us, research limitation. However, this proposal should open a debate in order to formulate a model that will be applicable in the contemporary societies (at least on regional level). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A number of geographical areas within Australia are subject to frequent and significant natural disasters such as cyclones and flooding. Such events impact individuals and businesses directly and indirectly through the disruption of the routine movement of goods, services and people. The importance of identifying core challenges in the management of transport networks has been highly recognized by state and local governments. In Queensland, the responses to natural disasters involve the efforts from a number of agencies, including local city councils, local disaster management group, emergency services, police services, health/ambulance, and transport authorities, under the coordination of local disaster coordination centre. In this research, we look at the coordination and communication (C&C) among multiple agencies in response to natural disasters. Two organizational C&C mechanisms are evaluated based on the functional resonance analysis method by assuming several representative hypothetical scenarios. The applicability of the two mechanisms is also discussed accordingly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Existing cellular networks and their services are not equipped enough to deal with such emergency situations that arise following natural disasters like an earthquake or tornado. Often, immediately after a natural disaster, cellular base stations (BS) in the affected areas face power outage problems and their backup power does not last long owing mostly to traffic overloading. This paper proposes a mobile station-controlled reliable target base station selection scheme for energy-aware handover in natural disaster affected areas. In this scheme, an LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) mobile station (user equipment or UE), self-selects the target base station (target evolved nodeB or TeNB) based on two independent parameters, namely, the leftover backup power of the different BSs (Evolved Node B or eNB) in affected areas and the UE's movement direction prediction. The proposed handover scheme offers three significant benefits during natural disasters. Firstly, existing connections continue to receive good QoS. Secondly, new connections are diverted to less-overloaded nearby BSs. Finally, residual battery life of BSs is considerably prolonged. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In case of risky situations such as natural disasters and various accidents, safety of students is the most important for school. This paper reports the an example of risk management at school in the panic situation produced by the earthquake, the tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident which occurred almost simultaneously in March 2011. The first thing to do at the risky situation was the confirmation of safety of students. Telephone line was damaged but the Internet did work. Because the Internet was alive, it was succeeded to confirm the safety of students just in three days. The way how they communicated in the panic situation is described in detail. The Internet was conveniently used to take care of the students in the panic situation in various ways including their mental care. Teacher's volunteer work to measure the environmental radioactivity just after the nuclear power plant accident is also reported. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In this paper, the modeling technology of multi agent in complex system has been employed in natural disaster relief emergency plan deduction according to the existing emergency plan deduction research results and the characteristics of emergency plan system. The natural disasters emergency plans deduction conceptual model based on MAS has been proposed. The proposed model has been tested on JADE platform. The results show that the designed natural disaster emergency plan deduction conceptual model can better address the modeling problem in emergency plan deduction complex system and deduction can achieve the desired results. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The emergency decision-making is the key of natural disaster emergency management and it is based on the efficiency management of the knowledge relative to the decision making. However, because of the complexity and diversity of the knowledge used in emergency decision-making, most of the proposed knowledge representation method failed to represent the emergency decision-making knowledge efficiently. To solve this problem, we present a knowledge representation method that integrates the natural disaster emergency knowledge into domain ontology to manage information and knowledge for supporting decision-making. Based on this method, we developed a emergency management system of natural disaster and the result shows the method is feasible and effective. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Natural Disasters have threatened mankind since history started. Due to geographic position and climate change, Bangladesh is one of most vulnerable countries to natural disasters. The country also lacks effective disaster preparedness system to confront natural disasters. Timely disaster warning and evacuation guideline can save lives of the people. In addition, a tourist or a blind people may face difficulties in finding safe area or shelter place prior to the occurrence of natural disasters. For this reason, we have proposed a location based early disaster warning and evacuation system for both normal and blind people using OpenStreetMap (OSM). The system is implemented on android mobile phone because of the burgeoning growth of smart phones in Bangladesh. So, our system comprises a third-party server named Disaster Management Server (DMS), android device with our application installed on it and user. The local weather office updates the disaster (tsunami, cyclone or flood) data on DMS. Device user registers on Android Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM) server to get automatic notification of upcoming disaster otherwise user gets manual notification. The user communicates with DMS to have updated data sending the current position obtained by GPS or network provider. The probable disaster affected area is determined by ray casting algorithm. When our application recognizes the user in probable disaster zone then application will disseminate visual and audio disaster warning and evacuation guideline including shortest path of shelter or safe zone on the map of the application. Evacuation progress is also tracked using DMS and national identification of user. The experimental result demonstrates the effectiveness of our system. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In this paper, a review of vision-based natural disaster warning methods is presented. Because natural disaster warning is receiving a lot of attention in recent research, a comprehensive review of various disaster-warning techniques developed in recent years is needed. This paper surveys recent studies on warning systems four different types of natural disaster, i.e., wildfire smoke and flame detection, water level detection for flood prevention, and coastal zone monitoring, using computer vision and pattern-recognition techniques. Finally, we conclude with some thoughts about future research directions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Complexity of landforms in China makes natural disasters happen constantly. Recently China has done much successful work in rescue of natural disasters. However, we still have a long way to go, as there still lays a great deal of problems in. We can establish lawful framework combining basic law with single laws, set up a unified and specialized agency for natural disaster management, develop a perfect system of natural disasters management and so forth. Through these suggestions, the author hopes that they might improve capability in dealing with natural disasters, reduce losses and bring to the public citizens so as to protect people's lives and property. Only in these ways, we can maintain the stability and development of society. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For a long time, In Haiti we've been facing many major problems. And situation worsened day by day as the government remains silent. The population has been witnessing a large increasement of urban waste. Hunger is a grave problem that exists in certain areas in Haiti. Importation rate is more than 80%, natural disasters that destroy our economy every year and so on. What if there was a way to turn these problems into opportunities? That's where CAPVERTHAITI a young nonprofit agricultural organization stepped in. Launched in January 2018, the organization vowed to address key problems by implementing a new agricultural and environmental perspective. Turning waste into compost, promoting urban agriculture and environment protection act. A panoply of initiatives allowing people to hope for a better future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Japan experienced a tragic natural disaster when a tsunami struck on March 11, 2011. A key issue after the 3.11 disaster is to resume the business as soon as possible. In this paper, we are interested in how devastated companies made sense of crisis through collaborating with competitors and community in order to resume their business, and we focus on such efforts of collaborative assistance. Three perspectives are considered to analyze the case of the collaborative assistance; social reality of crisis from constructionist point of view, shift of institutional logic from market logic to community logic, and traditional Japanese discourse. An important implication is that community logic is effective in the crisis where the market economy does not work, and collaborative assistance is considered as an alternative mode of organizing, instead of competition as the market logic of organizing. The disaster forced people rethink effectiveness of the market logic, and they doubted the daily lives of the commodified world of capitalism. The dominant discourse after the 3.11 disaster is to facilitate connecting people and enhance the relationships. The disaster leads to a remedy of decommodification, a discursive process of shifting from market logic to community logic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research explores ways in which individuals responded to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in New Orleans and compares their actions of community networking and aid with the experiences of those who endured the January 2005 flooding in Guyana and the December 2004 tsunami in Thailand. While many of the disaster victims have been accused publicly and privately of not preparing for disasters, and in effect, waiting for governmental handouts, we found many instances of people working in networks and community groups to improve the situation of their friends, neighbors, and faith networks. Further suggestions for community self-reliance and preparation are provided. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]