A multi-country comparative analysis of the impact of COVID-19 and natural hazards in India, Japan, the Philippines, and USA

Izumi, Takako; Shaw, Rajib

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.102899

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“…Tang et al analyzed the current situation of emergency voluntary services in China during COVID-19 and found that the service contents were similar to the content mentioned in the policy, except for psychological counseling ( 29 ). The results of a multi-country comparative analysis of the impact of COVID-19 also showed that assistance to those suffering from psychological stress should not be overlooked during the COVID-19 recovery period ( 30 ). It indicates that there may still be a gap between policymaking and policy implementation, and environmental policies need to be improved to ensure the implementation of policies.…”

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Policies of voluntary services involved in public health emergencies in China: Evolution, evaluation, and expectation

Chen

Wang

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundPublic health emergencies have an immense effect on social stability, economic development, and human life. Volunteers played an indispensable role in health monitoring, assistance with daily life, and social network repairing. However, few policies analysis concentrated on the voluntary services involved in public health emergencies.ObjectivesThis study aims to analyze and summarize the advantages and flaws of the policy documents relating to voluntary services involved in public health emergencies, and put forward the enlightenment on policymaking and optimization.MethodsA three-dimensional analysis framework of “Policy instruments—Participants of voluntary services—Stages of voluntary services” was designed. Policy documents at the national level were retrieved from the official websites of the State Council of the People's Republic of China and its departments as well as the PKULAW Database. NVivo software was applied to analyze the contents of the included policy documents. Gephi software was adopted to conduct a visualized atlas analysis of the cooperative network among policymaking departments.ResultsA total of 77 policy documents were included, and most were published in 2020 (n = 40). The Ministry of Civil Affairs (n = 19) and the National Health Commission (n = 18) issued more documents than the other departments. They cooperated more extensively with other departments. In policy documents, supply-side policy instruments were utilized the most (65.4%), followed by demand-side (23.9%). Voluntary organizations in the form of ambiguous sense were most mentioned as service participants (n = 73). In the stages of service delivery, service content mainly involved the prevention and control of public health emergencies (27, 18.9%) and psychological counseling (26, 18.2%).ConclusionTime distribution of policy documents featured “incubation period—outbreak and continuous evolution period—elimination recovery period.” Joint issuing became the dominant form. The internal structure of policy instruments was unbalanced with different priorities, and the overall structure is expected to be optimized to promote voluntary organization management, reinforce external resources, and close the gap between policymaking and policy implementation. Volunteers' competence and voluntary organizations' system needs to be improved, and the contents of voluntary services should be enriched for the preparedness for future public health emergency.

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Policies of voluntary services involved in public health emergencies in China: Evolution, evaluation, and expectation

Chen

Wang

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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“…However, there exists a trade-off among the costs of systems, range of coverage, time of forewarning, and reliability of systems. (Izumi and Shaw 2022). Moreover, the design and development of solutions for Disaster Risk Reduction vary according to the concept utilized, i.e., through community champions or technology.…”

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Landslide Early Warning Systems: Requirements and Solutions for Disaster Risk Reduction—India

Ramesh

Hemalatha

Singh

et al. 2023

Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 1 Issue 2, 2022

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Globally the prevalence of landslides has increased, impacting more than 4.8 million people between 1998 and 2017 and reported more than 18,000 casualties [UNDP]. The scenario has worsened dramatically, and it has become imperative to develop early warning systems to save human life. This demands the need for systems that could identify the potential of imminent landslides and disseminate the information related to landslide initiation in real-time. This would provide the opportunity to save lives. However, globally the research on reliable end-to-end systems for early warning of landslides is still in its nascent stage. Therefore, this paper explores in detail the requirements for developing systems for real-time monitoring, detection, and early warning of landslides. An integrated solution for building the real-time landslide monitoring and early warning system to provide community-scale disaster resilience is also proposed. This solution integrates multiple modules such as a heterogeneous sensor system, data storage and management, event detection framework, alert dissemination, and emergency communication system to address issues such as capturing dynamic variability, managing multi-scale voluminous datasets, extracting key triggering information regarding the onset of possible landslide, multilevel alert dissemination, and robust emergency communication among the stakeholders respectively. The paper also presents two case studies of real-time landslide early warning systems deployed in North-eastern Himalayas and Western Ghats of India. These case studies demonstrate the approaches utilized for risk assessment, risk analysis, risk evaluation, risk visualization, risk control, risk communication, and risk governance. The results from the deployed system in the case study areas demonstrate the capability of the IoT system to gather Spatio-temporal triggers for multiple types of landslides, detection and decision of specific scenarios, and the impact of real-time data on mitigating the imminent disaster.

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“…The beginning of the third decade of this century has brought significant global scale challenges that affected both the environment and society in different ways and to various degrees, also hindering the advancement towards the 17 Sustainable Development Goals [ 1 , 2 ]. While the world confronted the Covid-19 pandemic, natural destructive events continued to occur [ [3] , [4] , [5] ], leading to more severe human toll and damage [ 6 , 7 ]. This overlapping of a biological hazard with a global outbreak and other natural hazards has given way to new research that focuses on multi-hazard risks and specific coping and management strategies [ [8] , [9] , [10] ].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The interactions of hazards that co-occurred since the beginning of the recent Covid-19 pandemic are not fully understood, as the particularities of the pandemic's management (e.g., the additional pressures on relief centres, especially hospitals or other medical centres, the spatial distribution of the population during the daytime, the economic implications, the deteriorated health of relief workers and disaster victims, the regulations concerning sheltering etc.) have a great impact on hazard and risk management strategies that were designed to be applied in non-pandemic crisis contexts [ [5] , [6] , [7] , 32 ]. Moreover, natural hazards also influence the management of the pandemic, as destructive events may impair the functionality of emergency services centres, by threatening or damaging buildings or specific infrastructure, and by harming key personnel.…”

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confidence: 99%

Natural multi-hazard risk perception and educational insights among Geography and Tourism students and graduates amid the Covid-19 pandemic

Mărgărint

Kovačić

Albulescu

et al. 2023

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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A multi-country comparative analysis of the impact of COVID-19 and natural hazards in India, Japan, the Philippines, and USA

Cited by 18 publications

References 29 publications

Policies of voluntary services involved in public health emergencies in China: Evolution, evaluation, and expectation

Policies of voluntary services involved in public health emergencies in China: Evolution, evaluation, and expectation

Landslide Early Warning Systems: Requirements and Solutions for Disaster Risk Reduction—India

Natural multi-hazard risk perception and educational insights among Geography and Tourism students and graduates amid the Covid-19 pandemic

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