Disaster relief in post-earthquake Haiti: Unintended consequences of humanitarian volunteerism

Jobe, Kathleen A.

doi:10.1016/j.tmaid.2010.10.006

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“…More fundamentally, however, it is not clear if or how general remote sensing experience correlates with an ability to map structural damage accurately. Willingness to help and volunteer is strong following exceptional disasters, but it has been shown that volunteers are often not adequately skilled for the work they wish to support (for an account of inadequately prepared medical staff volunteering after the Haiti earthquake see Jobe, 2011). It is possible that collaborative damage mapping suffers from comparable limitations.…”

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“…For example, at the time of the 2010 Haiti disaster an estimated 10 000 nongovernmental organizations were active in the country (Jobe, 2011). Together with the disaster relief agencies deployed after the earthquake, they all constitute potential users of geospatial information, including information about damage.…”

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Collaborative damage mapping for emergency response: the role of Cognitive Systems Engineering

Kerle

Hoffman

2013

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. Remote sensing is increasingly used to assess disaster damage, traditionally by professional image analysts. A recent alternative is crowdsourcing by volunteers experienced in remote sensing, using internet-based mapping portals. We identify a range of problems in current approaches, including how volunteers can best be instructed for the task, ensuring that instructions are accurately understood and translate into valid results, or how the mapping scheme must be adapted for different map user needs. The volunteers, the mapping organizers, and the map users all perform complex cognitive tasks, yet little is known about the actual information needs of the users. We also identify problematic assumptions about the capabilities of the volunteers, principally related to the ability to perform the mapping, and to understand mapping instructions unambiguously. We propose that any robust scheme for collaborative damage mapping must rely on Cognitive Systems Engineering and its principal method, Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA), to understand the information and decision requirements of the map and image users, and how the volunteers can be optimally instructed and their mapping contributions merged into suitable map products. We recommend an iterative approach involving map users, remote sensing specialists, cognitive systems engineers and instructional designers, as well as experimental psychologists.

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Collaborative damage mapping for emergency response: the role of Cognitive Systems Engineering

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2013

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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“…After the initial massive relief mission, FMTs left and disabled survivors who were forced to produce another huge need for aftercare. [14] Many aid agencies still urge to manage their "own" medical supplies and their "own" patients, without engaging in the coordination mechanism. It can lead to wastes, duplication of services, and inefficiency.…”

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Disaster medical assistance in super typhoon Haiyan: collaboration with local medical team resulted in great synergy

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Lee

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“…Frequentemente, em grandes catástrofes, muitos voluntários não estão aptos para ajudar, pese embora o facto de todas as intervenções de emergência terem consequências não intencionais (Jobe, 2011;Van Hoving, Wallis, Docrat, & De Vries, 2010).…”

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“…(Granger, 2012;Jobe, 2011 Relativamente às equipas estrangeiras que forneceram assistência sanitária, podem-se definir os seguintes grupos (Goyet et al, 2011):…”

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O terramoto no Haiti (12 de janeiro de 2010): análise na perspetiva da Medicina de catástrofe: do impacto à atualidade

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Disaster relief in post-earthquake Haiti: Unintended consequences of humanitarian volunteerism

Cited by 101 publications

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Collaborative damage mapping for emergency response: the role of Cognitive Systems Engineering

Collaborative damage mapping for emergency response: the role of Cognitive Systems Engineering

Disaster medical assistance in super typhoon Haiyan: collaboration with local medical team resulted in great synergy

O terramoto no Haiti (12 de janeiro de 2010): análise na perspetiva da Medicina de catástrofe: do impacto à atualidade

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