Damage Assessment of Agrometeorological Relevance from Natural Disasters: Economic and Social Consequences

2005 ◽  
pp. 119-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen R. Riebau ◽  
Douglas G. Fox
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Damage Assessment ◽  
Social Consequences

scholarly journals (P1-96) Social Context of Natural Disaster

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S1) ◽  
pp. s130-s130
Author(s):  
D. Maltais
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
2004 Tsunami

Social context of natural disaster Danielle Maltais, Ph.D., Simon Gauthier, M.Sc. University of Québec in Chicoutimi (UQAC), Social Sciences Department, Social Work Teaching Unit, 555 Boulevard de l'Université, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada, G7H 2B1, [email protected] During the last few years, several countries in North America as well as in Europe or Asia were exposed to catastrophes that can be described as macrosocial catastrophes since a large number of people were affected. The death of an important number of people during the Katrina hurricane, the 2003 summer heat wave in Europe and the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia unfortunately showed that several countries and communities, even the most developed, are very badly prepared, in the event of a natural disaster, to protect and help its citizens and more specifically vulnerable people such as the old or the poor as well as lonely or sick people, those with reduced mobility or living in unsuitable housing conditions. Natural disasters are never completely quite so because of the frequency of the disasters as well as their human, community and social consequences and the extent of the subsequent material damage. They can be regarded as the result of human factors related to the deployment of ill advised activities for the environment (hasty urbanization and industrialization, deforestation, construction in zones at risk, etc), socio-economic conflicts (wars, political conflicts, displacement of segments of the population in environments at risk) or unequal distribution of economic, social and cultural resources between individuals, communities and countries. In social work, when we examine the causes and consequences of disasters on people's health and social activities, it is important to consider the notion of individual and social vulnerability of the people as well as the concepts of human adaptation to stress and impact strength. This communication will mainly make it possible to place the consequences of natural disasters in their social context and discuss the repercussions of this concept of reality on workers training and guiding.

scholarly journals Geophysical Factors as Crime Determinants

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-35
Author(s):  
Dmitriy Zhmurov ◽  
Sergey Tikhomirov
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Routine Activity ◽  
General Strategy ◽  
Criminological Research ◽  
Negative Emotional State ◽  
Quantitative Characteristics ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Characteristics

The problems of ensuring the safety of people during natural disasters and of mitigating their consequences have long been discussed at the highest levels. The currently adopted approach determines that the key task of every state is to develop a general strategy of predicting natural disasters, to organize cooperation on ensuring the safety of people and reducing material damage, and to reduce the dangerous anthropogenic impact on the environment as a cause of catastrophes. An important segment in the development of such programs is criminological research of crimes in the conditions of natural disasters. This article analyzes key concepts of the impact that natural disasters have on crime (therapeutic community, social disorganization, hypothesis of routine activity). It is concluded that the consequences of natural disasters have a criminologically meaningful effect on all spheres of public life. As a rule, such events lead to changes in both absolute and relative indices of crime, in its qualitative and quantitative characteristics. Key forms of criminal activities are analyzed and described, including: 1) vital, as a form of adapting and satisfying vital needs in the conditions of acute deficit of resources (food, clothes, medications, etc.); 2) affective, i.e. conditioned by a negative emotional state of people; 3) disinhibited, arising from the collapse of social control institutions, feelings of the absence of control and impunity for any actions; 4) situational, as an optimal form of behavior in the existing conditions, as a method of reaching some goals; 5) delayed, representing long-term social consequences of natural disasters.

MSIM: A change detection framework for damage assessment in natural disasters

2018 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
pp. 372-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Qin ◽  
Xiangmin Zhou ◽  
Weiyi Zhou ◽  
Guangyan Huang ◽  
Yongli Ren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Change Detection ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Damage Assessment

scholarly journals The use of NOAA/AVHRR satellite data for monitoring and assessment of forest fires and floods

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 115-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Domenikiotis ◽  
A. Loukas ◽  
N. R. Dalezios
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Forest Fires ◽  
Damage Assessment ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Anthropogenic Factors ◽  
Central Greece ◽  
Sensing Applications ◽  
Noaa Avhrr

Abstract. The increasing number of extreme natural phenomena, which are related to the climate variability and are mainly caused by anthropogenic factors, escalate the frequency and severity of natural disasters. Operational monitoring of natural hazards and assessment of the affected area impose quick and efficient methods based on large-scale data, readily available to the agencies. The growing number of satellite systems and their capabilities give rise to remote sensing applications to all types of natural disasters, including forest fires and floods. Remote sensing techniques can be used in all three aspects of disaster management viz: forecasting, monitoring and damage assessment. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of satellite remote sensing for monitoring and near-real time assessment of the affected by forest fires and floods areas. As a tool, two satellite indices are presented, namely the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and the Surface Temperature (ST), extracted by the meteorological satellite NOAA/AVHRR. In the first part of the paper, a review of utilized techniques using NDVI and ST is given. In the second part, the application of various methodologies to three case studies are presented: the forest fire of 21–24 July 1995 in Penteli Mountain near Athens and 16 September 1994 in Pelion Mountain in Thessaly region, central Greece, and finally the flood of 17–23 October 1994 in Thessaly region, central Greece. For all studies the NDVI has been utilized for hazard assessment. The method of ST has been applied to the flood event in Thessaly, for the estimation of the areal extent of the floods. As emerged from the studies, remote sensing data can be decisive for monitoring and damage assessment, caused by forest fires and floods.

Feeling Like a Burden

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 219-238
Author(s):  
James H. Wirth ◽  
Ashley Batts Allen ◽  
Emily M. Zitek
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Social Costs ◽  
Negative Outcomes ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Self Compassion

Abstract. We examined the negative outcomes, particularly social costs that result when a person harms their group by performing poorly, and whether self-compassion could buffer against these negative outcomes. In Studies 1 and 2, participants performed poorly and harmed their group or performed equal to their group. Harmful poor-performing participants felt more burdensome, experienced more negative affect, felt more ostracized, anticipated more exclusion, and felt lowered self-esteem than equal-performing participants. Studies 3 and 4 disentangled poor performance from harming a group. Poor-performing participants either harmed the group or caused no harm. Harmful poor-performing participants felt more burdensome and anticipated more exclusion, indicating the additional social consequences of a harmful poor performance over a non-harmful performance. Across studies, trait self-compassion was associated with reduced negative effects.

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