A CAST-Based Analysis of the Metro Accident That Was Triggered by the Zhengzhou Heavy Rainstorm Disaster

Emergency management research is used to deal with the increasing number of extreme weather threats in urban areas. This paper uses causal analysis based on systems theory (CAST) to review the subway water ingress accident and the government's emergency management actions in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, during the heavy rainstorm disaster on 20...

Pandemic programming: How COVID-19 affects software developers and how their organizations can help

Context: As a novel coronavirus swept the world in early 2020, thousands of software developers began working from home. Many did so on short notice, under difficult and stressful conditions.<br/><br/>Objective: This study investigates the effects of the pandemic on developers’ wellbeing and productivity.<br/><br/>Method: A questionnaire survey...

Real time floodrisk management

The central issue for authorities (as well as the public) is how and when to respond to forecasted extreme water levels on rivers, lakes and along the coast and large-scale flooding is an actual risk. The decision-making process is influenced by contradicting information, overloads and gaps in information, rumours, uncertainties in forecasts,...

Multidisciplinary emergency management: A comparative study of coordination and performance of on-scene command teams in virtual reality exercises

3D Geo-Information requirements for disaster and emergency management

A conceptual approach is proposed to define 3D geo-information requirement for different types of disasters. This approach includes components such as Disaster Type-Sector-Actor-Process-Activity-Task-Data. According to disaster types processes, activities, tasks, sectors, and responsible and operational actors are derived. Based on the tasks,...

Effective Task Arrangement in Emergency Dispatch Centers

Recent policy choices by the Dutch government for improving uniformity of emergency dispatch centers across the Netherlands, which include budget cuts have led to the idea of changing the current organization on and task structure of Emergency Dispatch Centers (EDC’s) in the Netherlands. The initiatives driven by technological changes were...

Integrated flood disaster management and spatial information: Case studies of Netherlands and India

Spatial Information is an integral part of flood management practices which include risk management & emergency response processes. Although risk & emergency management activities have their own characteristics, for example, related to the time scales, time pressure, activities & actors involved, it is still possible to identify at least one...

GIS in the World Trade Center response: 10 years after

The World Trade Center attack of 9/11/01 and the response brought major attention to GIS as a valuable tool for supporting emergency management and response. That attention led to the allocation of considerable resources to the enhancement of GIS. This paper is intended to provide a look back at the events prior to and immediately following the...

Serious Games as Experiments for Emergency Management Research: A Review

Serious games and virtual environments are increasingly used for emergency management training and research. The development of these technologies seems to contribute to a solution to some problems in the existing literature on emergency management which is mainly based on case study research. However, using virtual technology for research also...

Exploring ontology potential in emergency management

Frameworks for flood event management

FLOODsite (task 19). The objective was to link knowledge and models from FLOODsite theme 1 (risk analysis) and theme 2 (risk management) in a Decision Support System (DSS) in support of flood event management planning and practice. The specific objectives were: 1. To obtain insight into the different types of decision support systems that have...

Kustbeheer in de Verenigde Staten van Amerika: Verslag van een studiereis

Van 6 t/m 13 november is een afvaardiging van de regionale kustdiensten van Rijkswaterstaat onder leiding van Hans Balfoort van het RIKZ naar de Verenigde Staten gereisd, in het kader van de Internationale Strategie van Rijkswaterstaat. Het doel van de reis was kennis halen op het gebied van kustbeheer en risicobeheersing uit een land met...