Developing a coherent global view for post disaster situation awareness using opportunistic network

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Apratim Mukherjee ◽  
Souvik Basu ◽  
Siuli Roy ◽  
Somprakash Bandyopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Opportunistic Network ◽  
Global View ◽  
Disaster Situation ◽  
Post Disaster

scholarly journals Post Disaster Situation Awareness and Decision Support Through Interactive Crowdsourcing

2016 ◽  
Vol 159 ◽  
pp. 167-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moumita Basu ◽  
Somprakash Bandyopadhyay ◽  
Saptarshi Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Disaster Situation ◽  
Post Disaster

Citizen-to-Citizen Resource Sharing in Emergency Response

Crowdsourcing ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 578-605
Author(s):  
Soon Ae Chun ◽  
Jaideep S. Vaidya ◽  
Vijayalakshmi Atluri ◽  
Basit Shafiq ◽  
Nabil R. Adam
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Situational Awareness ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Mobile Crowdsourcing ◽  
Disaster Situation ◽  
The Government

During large-scale manmade or natural disasters, such as Superstorm Sandy and Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, collaborations among government agencies, NGOs, and businesses need to be coordinated to provide necessary resources to respond to emergency events. However, resources from citizens themselves are underutilized, such as their equipment or expertise. The citizen participation via social media enhanced the situational awareness, but the response management is still mainly handled by the government or government-sanctioned partners. By harnessing the power of citizen crowdsourcing, government agencies can create enhanced disaster situation awareness and facilitate effective utilization of resources provided by citizen volunteers, resulting in more effective disaster responses. This chapter presents a public engagement in emergency response (PEER) framework that provides an online and mobile crowdsourcing platform for incident reporting and citizens' resource volunteering as well as an intelligent recommender system to match-make citizen resources with emergency tasks.

Citizen-to-Citizen Resource Sharing in Emergency Response

2018 ◽  
pp. 130-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soon Ae Chun ◽  
Jaideep S. Vaidya ◽  
Vijayalakshmi Atluri ◽  
Basit Shafiq ◽  
Nabil R. Adam
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Situational Awareness ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Mobile Crowdsourcing ◽  
Disaster Situation ◽  
The Government

During large-scale manmade or natural disasters, such as Superstorm Sandy and Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, collaborations among government agencies, NGOs, and businesses need to be coordinated to provide necessary resources to respond to emergency events. However, resources from citizens themselves are underutilized, such as their equipment or expertise. The citizen participation via social media enhanced the situational awareness, but the response management is still mainly handled by the government or government-sanctioned partners. By harnessing the power of citizen crowdsourcing, government agencies can create enhanced disaster situation awareness and facilitate effective utilization of resources provided by citizen volunteers, resulting in more effective disaster responses. This chapter presents a public engagement in emergency response (PEER) framework that provides an online and mobile crowdsourcing platform for incident reporting and citizens' resource volunteering as well as an intelligent recommender system to match-make citizen resources with emergency tasks.

Search and Rescue Using Multiple Drones in Post-Disaster Situation

2016 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
pp. 83-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Q. Cui ◽  
Swee King Phang ◽  
Kevin Z. Y. Ang ◽  
Fei Wang ◽  
Xiangxu Dong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Controller Design ◽  
Indoor Navigation ◽  
Search And Rescue ◽  
Urban Search And Rescue ◽  
Robust Controller ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Disaster Situation ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Post Disaster ◽  
Robust Controller Design

We present the development and application of multiple autonomous aerial vehicles in urban search and rescue missions. The missions are designed by the 2014 International Micro Aerial Vehicle Competition, held in Delft, the Netherlands, August 2014. Different mission tasks are identified for search and rescue missions, such as aerial photography, low altitude flight in urban environment, indoor navigation and rooftop landing. These tasks are all of paramount importance for rescuers in a disaster-hit place. We have designed a team of micro aerial vehicles with specific configurations to meet the mission requirements. A range of key technologies have been developed, including robust controller design, real-time map stitching, indoor navigation and roof-top perching. The proposed solutions are successfully demonstrated in the competition.

scholarly journals “Poetic” publics: Agency and rhetorics of “netroots” activism in post-earthquake L’Aquila

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Pietrucci
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The People ◽  
Media Portrayal ◽  
The World ◽  
Disaster Situation ◽  
Post Disaster ◽  
The Web

In this essay, I analyze the rise of post-earthquake activism in L’Aquila as an exemplification of counterpublics’ transformation into social movements endowed with “poetic” agency. Engendering “poetic agency,” for a counterpublic and for a social movement alike, denotes being able to bring forth change in the world and  being able to generate change in a creative, “poetic” way. In this sense, poetic assumes a connotation that opposes  the Habermasian perspective of a public sphere in which only a  rational-critical discourse can be engendered as check on the State. In the case of L’Aquila, I contend that the post-earthquake social movements’ capability of effecting  change in public life through poiesis has been enhanced by the possibilities of the Web 2.0 and by the activists’ acknowledgement of new ways of political participation in a world of spectacularized politics. In this instance, strategies such as the exploitation of alternative “public screens” on the web and the use of “minor rhetorics” to contrast the mainstream media portrayal of the post-disaster situation worked together in a creative and spontaneous effort to improve the condition of the people living in the area affected by the quake.

scholarly journals The interplay between home and host logics of accountability in multinational corporations (MNCs): the case of the Fundão dam disaster

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 1761-1789 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Safari ◽  
Vincent Bicudo de Castro ◽  
Ileana Steccolini
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Institutional Pressures ◽  
Major Purpose ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Dominant Logic ◽  
Disaster Situation ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
Post Disaster

PurposeThe major purpose of this paper is to answer the overarching questions of how multinational corporations (MNCs) address the multiple institutional logics of accountability and pressures of the field in which they operate and how the dominant logic changes and shifts in response to such pressures pre- and post-disaster situation.Design/methodology/approachIn-depth interpretive textual analyses of multiple longitudinal data sets are conducted to study the case of the Fundão dam disaster. The data sources include historical documents, academic articles and public institutional press releases from 2000 to 2016, covering the environment leading to the case study incident and its aftermath.FindingsThe findings reveal how MNCs' plurality of and, at times, conflicting institutional logics shape the organizational behaviors, actions and nonactions of actors pre-, peri- and post-disaster. More specifically, the predominance bureaucracy embedded in the state-corporatist logic of the host country before a disaster allows the strategic subunit of an MNC to continue operating while causing various forms of environmental damage until a globally visible disaster triggers a reversal in the dominant logic toward the embrace of wider, global, emergent social and environmental accountability.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to discussions regarding the need to explore in depth of how MNCs respond to multiple institutional pressures in practice. This study extends the literature concerning disaster accountability, state-corporatism and logic-shifting by exploring how MNCs respond to the plurality of institutional logics and pressures over time and showing how, in some cases, logics not only reinforce but also contrast with each other and how a globally exposed disaster may trigger a shift in the dominant logic governing MNCs' responses.

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