Develop public self-protection to minimize responders exposures (TOP CHALLENGE)

 

  • Focus on prevention, self-protection and risk awareness of population. Encourage self-protection measures (subsidy, exceptions in regulations…) Create a culture of emergency.
  • Train/educate/inform general population starting from scratch and in a basic and easy way, about knowledge of risk and appropriate behaviours, specially targeting those more exposed and vulnerable. Address all phases of emergency and the different levels of risk. Provide tools to facilitate adequate decision-making: checklists, emergency kits …  (TOP CHALLENGE scored 1/12 among our 12 best challenges)
  • Agree with public and private stakeholders on accepted risk and self-protection measures reaching pacts and deals. Do mandatory exercises financed by the owners of high risk activities. Focus on crowd management and panic. Disseminate instructions to apply in case of risk, in order to strengthen the appropriate population reactions.

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Best practices, doctrine, lessons learned

CBFIM – VILLAGE DEFENSE

In many regions globally rural settlements (villages, towns, scattered farmsteads) and other rural assets (agricultural fields / crops, infrastructures and other values at risk) are increasingly endangered by wildfires. This trend is driven by the conse...

Guidelines to increase the benefit of social media in emergencies

The EmerGent project summarised its findings and conclusions in the form of guidelines and provides a list of recommendations for emergency services and citizens on how to make the most of social media.

Development of Trauma-Informed Practices in US Classrooms and Refugee Camps in Greece

Phase I: Identification of best practices in social and emotional learning that educators and volunteers could use in different environments and situations. U.S. Child Traumatic Stress Network distributed resources for teachers, primary care providers, c...

Mocking Disasters with NIMS: Global Disaster Policy

The United States has created the National Incident Management System (NIMS), a template that is used as a national model for natural and man-made disasters. It is a proactive guide to authorize disaster responders to seamlessly address all of the theoret...

The Earthquake Suitcase

The Earthquake Suitcase contains a portable earthquake simulator representing the horizontal shaking produced by the seismic waves. Rotational motion produced manually is converted to linear motion of a surface 45x25 cm. Buildings 3D models of various res...

PEP (Public Empowerment Policies for Crisis Management)

best practices in a community approach to crisis resilience, and gives directions for future research and implementation, including the use of social media and mobile services

Publication

Research - Building local level engagement in disaster risk reduction. A Portugese case study

Purpose - Contributing to the global dialogue on disaster risk reduction (DRR), the purpose of this paper is to address a key priority for the Post-2015 Framework for DRR (HFA2) by analysing initiatives used by one local government to increase local-leve...

Community-Based Disaster Coalition training

Introduction: One key activity of the University of South Florida Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Center is designing, developing, and delivering community preparedness, response, and recovery system training. Background/Rationale: Coalition...

The Eight Step Training Model: Improving Disaster Management Leadership

In the aftermath of public tragedies such as the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, intense scrutiny was placed upon the emergency management community throughout all levels of government. Clearly, it is imperative that emergency managers...

Earthquake induced crises: game tree approached risk communication and lessons learnt

Earthquake risk communication, which was extremely poor in historical times, has improved in an extraordinary way during the last decade. EEW and TW systems are, or are in the process of being, established, and platforms operated by seismological centres...

Burnside-Lawry, Judy; Carvalho, Luis (2015): Building local level engagement in disaster risk reduction. A Portugese case study. In: Disaster Preve...

Contributing to the global dialogue on disaster risk reduction (DRR), the purpose of this paper is to address a key priority for the Post-2015 Framework for DRR (HFA2) by analysing initiatives used by one local government to increase local-level engagemen...

Technological innovation

SAPI - système de surveillance et d’alerte du personnel

Le système permet de signaler à l’instant en temps réel, tout véhicule entrant dans la zone de sécurité. Ce système est constitué d’une caméra fixée à l’arrière du VSR et d’une lampe stroboscopique, d’un logiciel de traitement de l’image sur un PC embarqu...

Real time earthquake shaking maps for Greece

The Seismological Laboratory of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (SL-NKUA, http://www.geophysics.geol.uoa.gr/) monitors on real-time basis the seismicity in Greece, based on the recordings of the Hellenic Unified Seismological Network (H...

G-Sense - Earthquake Rapid Damage Assessment for Buildings

Satways Ltd recently developed the G-sense system comprising of a network of sensor nodes installed in different floors of a building measuring acceleration. The nodes include a low noise MEMS tri-axial accelerometer, a 16bit ADC, a power control (UPS) un...

TOP 12 challenges

Challenge n°1: Train/educate/inform general population starting from scratch and in a basic and easy way, about knowledge of risk and appropriate...