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Although disaster risk management is becoming increasingly important in development cooperation, there is still a lack of robust evidence regarding its effectiveness. Few studies based on a counterfactual have been conducted in the fields of disaster manag ...
2020Flexible Disaster Response of Tomorrow: Final Presentation and Evaluation of the CENTAURO System
Xi Chen, Fabian Maximilian Schilling
Mobile manipulation robots have great potential for roles in support of rescuers on disaster-response missions. Robots can operate in places too dangerous for humans and therefore can assist in accomplishing hazardous tasks while their human operators work ...
2019Formal Analysis of Human-Assisted Smart City Emergency Services
The concept of IoT-based Smart Cities has gained momentum in recent years. The research in this domain has focused on modeling key characteristics of future smart cities along with exploring their design and implementation aspects from multiple perspective ...
2019Community-based landslide risk reduction: a review of a Red Cross soil bioengineering for resilience program in Honduras
Silvia Hostettler, Antonio D'Acunzi
Effective long-term participation of communities in disaster risk reduction measures in landslide-prone areas continues to be a challenge. This study aims to evaluate the extent to which community-based soil-bioengineering techniques allow for effective mi ...
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