Pre-disaster planning and preparedness for floods and droughts: A systematic review

Raikes, Jonathan; Smith, Timothy F.; Jacobson, Chris; Baldwin, Claudia

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101207

Cited by 144 publications

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“…Impact assessment can be classified according to its evaluation time into pre-or during-disaster assessment. Pre-disaster impact assessments consider climate change [22,125] and planning-or preparedness-related applications [126,127]. During-disaster impact assessment is usually directly associated with immediate response [128][129][130].…”

Section: Floodmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A General Overview of the Risk-Reduction Strategies for Floods and Droughts

Yang

Liu

2020

Sustainability

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Water is a limited resource but essential to sustaining life and supporting economic development. Only 2.5% of all the water on Earth is freshwater and can be used to meet basic human needs such as a clean supply of water for drinking, cooking, and bathing. Water scarcity is the result of an imbalance between supply and demand. Efficient water resource management is definitely of interest to research and is a practical topic. At the same time, water-related disasters such as floods and droughts cause the loss of life and property. Disasters increase the difficulty of effective water resource management. An increase in climate extremes can also increase the risk of floods and droughts. This overview covers 150 peer-reviewed journal publications from the last twenty years focusing on risk-reduction strategies for floods and droughts. First, a definition and classification of flood and drought was introduced. Second, studies and techniques associated with risk reduction were grouped into three themes and discussed: prediction and warning; monitoring; and impact assessment, response, and management. As a result, many studies were solely focused on, and achieve excellence in, their own themes. Special attention was needed to find in these studies what can convert the adverse impacts such as flood water to positive outcomes such as drought relief. Multidisciplinary cooperation is necessary to achieve sustainability and to adapt to climate change. Finally, advanced techniques such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT) were foreseen to have a tremendous impact on future disaster risk reduction.

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Section: Floodmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Climate change or planning-related assessment [125][126][127] Immediate disaster evaluation and response [128][129][130] General measures to mitigate the drought impact [127] Specific measures for agriculture drought [134][135][136] 3.…”

Section: Droughtmentioning

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A General Overview of the Risk-Reduction Strategies for Floods and Droughts

Yang

Liu

2020

Sustainability

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“…Now, it appears to be a main phase in the disaster risk management acting like a dynamic process that can be traced in pre-disaster, disaster, and post-disaster phases. Some studies (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 2016;Oloruntoba et al, 2018;Raikes et al, 2019) have identified the planning as an activity to enhance the preparedness, such as setting warning systems, essential resources, information, and recognizing the risks and problems mostly occurring to minimize or avoid the disaster damage. Other studies (Altay & Green, 2006;McEntire & Myers, 2004;Novak et al, 2018;Rodríguez-Espíndola et al, 2018) have proposed another definition of preparedness according to which it engages in the activities to enhance the disaster response by highlighting the role of training and education, evacuation plan, simulating a disaster, emergency kits, and resource allocation.…”

Section: Disaster Preparednessmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Does the Hotel Quality Rate Influence the Preparedness against the Effects of Disasters?

Badri

Kazemi

2020

Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality & Tourism

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Heretofore, hotels have experienced different disasters in various places; and the effects have proven the vulnerability of the hospitality industry and the importance of disaster preparedness. Although studies in the field of hotels and disasters have shown the ill-preparedness to the extent that the hoteliers were shocked by the disasters, none of them have considered a framework to measure the disaster preparedness, and the differences in this industry. Therefore, an index-based approach was proposed by a systematic review on the disasters' effects on the hotels to measure the disaster preparedness. Findings obtained from the hotels located in Tehran suggested that the preparedness measures among the star hotels can be classified into three classes; measures taken by all the hotels, measures refused by all the hotels, and measures that are different among them. Results confirmed a correlation between the hotels' preparedness and their quality rate. In this regard, financial resources, human resources, management approaches, hotels' facilities, and structure were among the main reasons for the differences existing between the hotels. The lack of crisis management knowledge, risk perception, and priority for preparedness against the disasters were determined as the factors that must be considered in the disaster plans for hotels.

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“…Systematic literature reviews are used as a method to assess, examine, and summarize the state of knowledge and understanding on a given field, topic, or research question using organized and replicable steps [13]. They have been used to identify, classify, and summarize trends in human-environment related research including topics such as species conservation [14], species distributions [15,16], natural hazards and disasters [17], floods and droughts disaster planning and preparedness [18], climate change vulnerability and adaptation [19], carbon accounting [20], and urban rivers ecology [21]. In the present study, we conducted a systematic literature review to highlight the scope and trends in cyclones and forests research conducted on Puerto Rico between 1900 and 2017.…”

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Broadening Our Understanding of Hurricanes and Forests on the Caribbean Island of Puerto Rico: Where and What Should We Study Now?

López-Marrero

Scalley

Rivera-López

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Hurricanes shape ecosystems. A broad range of forested ecosystems is particularly affected by hurricanes, thus creating the need for studies addressing the effects of these disturbances. There is a long history of hurricane and forest research on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. In this study, we present results from a systematic literature review of peer-reviewed articles regarding ecological research conducted in Puerto Rico on the topic of hurricanes and forests published from 1900 through 2017. We present a summary of cyclonic activity on the island during the study period and the results from the systematic literature review within this cyclonic context. We discuss findings in terms of aspects of forests studied, geographical distribution of study areas, and time scales at which research was conducted. These findings allow us to determine what was studied about hurricanes and forests, identify gaps in the information, and suggest possible areas of research and production of new knowledge that recent and future storms can bring. We conclude with recommendations identifying research needs and propose additional approaches to complement existing information. Our goal is to generate future knowledge from hurricane and forest research with the broadest applications possible.

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Pre-disaster planning and preparedness for floods and droughts: A systematic review

Cited by 144 publications

References 70 publications

A General Overview of the Risk-Reduction Strategies for Floods and Droughts

A General Overview of the Risk-Reduction Strategies for Floods and Droughts

How Does the Hotel Quality Rate Influence the Preparedness against the Effects of Disasters?

Broadening Our Understanding of Hurricanes and Forests on the Caribbean Island of Puerto Rico: Where and What Should We Study Now?

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