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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
The Oil Spill Risk Assessment And Research On The Oil Pollution Emergency Plan In Cnooc(Huizhou) Logistics Base Wharf, Hui Yi
Maritime Safety & Environment Management Dissertations (Dalian)
No abstract provided.
Risk Assessment On Oil Spill In Dalian Port Sea Area, Yang Wu
Risk Assessment On Oil Spill In Dalian Port Sea Area, Yang Wu
Maritime Safety & Environment Management Dissertations (Dalian)
No abstract provided.
Environmental Damage Risk Assessment And Emergency Scheme Of Ship Oil Spill Around Xiamen Sea, Congchao Zhang
Environmental Damage Risk Assessment And Emergency Scheme Of Ship Oil Spill Around Xiamen Sea, Congchao Zhang
Maritime Safety & Environment Management Dissertations (Dalian)
No abstract provided.
Study On The Efficacy Of Helicopters In The Field Of Maritime Rescue, Qi Zhu
Study On The Efficacy Of Helicopters In The Field Of Maritime Rescue, Qi Zhu
Maritime Safety & Environment Management Dissertations (Dalian)
No abstract provided.
Emergency Management Training For Transportation Agencies, Frances Edwards, Daniel Goodrich, James Griffith
Emergency Management Training For Transportation Agencies, Frances Edwards, Daniel Goodrich, James Griffith
Mineta Transportation Institute Publications
State transportation agencies have a variety of responsibilities related to emergency management. Field personnel manage events--from day-to-day emergencies to disasters--using the Incident Command System (ICS) as their organizational basis. At the headquarters level, the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) coordinates the use of resources across the department and its districts, with other state departments and agencies, and through the federal Emergency Support Function 1. District-level EOCs coordinate with the department. In extreme events, the transportation department may only be able to deliver limited essential services in austere conditions, so a continuity of operations/ continuity of government plan (COOP/COG) is essential. This …
Natural Disasters In Latin America: The Role Of Disaster Type And Productive Sector On The Urban-Rural Income Gap And Rural To Urban Migration, Madeline Alice Messick
Natural Disasters In Latin America: The Role Of Disaster Type And Productive Sector On The Urban-Rural Income Gap And Rural To Urban Migration, Madeline Alice Messick
Dissertations
This research provides insight into the impact of natural disasters as drivers of rural to urban migration in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Disasters of varying types are predicted to have differing impacts on the productive sectors of agriculture, industry, and services; which due to the concentration of the various productive sectors in either urban or rural areas, subsequently changes the urban-rural wage differential. Changes to the wage differential (as measured by the urban-rural income gap) are predicted to lead to movement between urban and rural areas until a new equilibrium wage is reached.
This dissertation first identifies a …
From The Director - Issue 20.2, Ken Rutherford
From The Director - Issue 20.2, Ken Rutherford
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
From the Director - Issue 20.2
The Journal Of Conventional Weapons Destruction Issue 20.2 (2016), Cisr Jmu
The Journal Of Conventional Weapons Destruction Issue 20.2 (2016), Cisr Jmu
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Mobile Technologies in CWD
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Integrated Cooperation On Explosive Hazards Program In Central Asia, Luka Buhin
Integrated Cooperation On Explosive Hazards Program In Central Asia, Luka Buhin
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Office in Tajikistan (OiT) facilitates regional cooperation and coordination in the field of mine action in Central Asia, predominantly focusing on but not limited to inter-military cooperation. This approach falls under the OSCE concept of comprehensive and cooperative security. One of the best examples of this cooperation is the OSCE extra-budgetary project, the Integrated Cooperation on Explosive Hazards Programme (ICExH), which has been running since mid-2013. The project received financial support from the governments of Austria and the Netherlands in the past, while the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement in …
Armed Violence Reduction In Central Mali: A Community-Based Approach, Sonia Pezier, Jean-Denis Larsen
Armed Violence Reduction In Central Mali: A Community-Based Approach, Sonia Pezier, Jean-Denis Larsen
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
According to the Small Arms Survey, around 526,000 persons are killed every year as a result of armed violence, and many more sustain injuries requiring medical and rehabilitative care that severely impacts their lives. In West Africa, the propagation of small arms and light weapons (SA/LW) escalates armed conflicts and affects the security and the stability of the entire Sahel region.
Flail Technology In Demining, Ashish Juneja
Flail Technology In Demining, Ashish Juneja
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
With the use of rollers, tillers and chain flails, the focus of minefield clearance has shifted since the early 1980’s from military to humanitarian demining. These machines can clear 200–300 mm of soil depending on the speed of the vehicle and its configuration, the soil type and the terrain. Unfortunately, heavy machines are difficult to operate at these slow speeds unless large amounts of power are available to run and rotate the flails. Moreover, recent literature cites the use of modern technology in demining (e.g., infrared imaging, ground penetration radar, thermal neutron activation and X-ray tomography). Mechanical machines, however, are …
Implementing International Obligations To Clear Mines, Stuart Maslen
Implementing International Obligations To Clear Mines, Stuart Maslen
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Each State Party to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC) that knows or suspects it has areas under its jurisdiction or control that contain anti-personnel (AP) mines has a clear deadline to locate and destroy those mines. According to Article 5(1), upon becoming party to the APMBC, a State must complete clearance within ten years, unless the deadline is pushed back in an agreement from the other States Parties at an annual meeting or five-yearly review conference.
Mobile Data Collection: Interoperability Through New Architecture, Elizabeth Vinek, Sulaiman Mukahhal, Olivier Cottray
Mobile Data Collection: Interoperability Through New Architecture, Elizabeth Vinek, Sulaiman Mukahhal, Olivier Cottray
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Information management (IM) requires close collaboration between all parties in a mine action program and cannot be carried out in isolation. Effective IM involves tools as well as organizational processes that clearly define how different parties interact and function with IM. Without adequately defining processes through National Mine Action Standards (NMAS) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), even the most advanced and fit-for-purpose IM tools will lack the foundation to be effective.
From The Field: Mobile Technologies For Mine Action, Torsten Vikstrom
From The Field: Mobile Technologies For Mine Action, Torsten Vikstrom
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Breakthroughs in technology development transformed desktop computers into small, powerful mobile units equipped with intelligent software and extensive possibilities to connect and interact. Alternatively, the world of mine action still depends on manual work done with pen and paper, and the process of field data collection is especially exposed. However, field tests show that the use of mobile technology vastly improves safety and increases the effectiveness of field work. Adapting to new mobile technologies for field data collection will also positively affect the ways in which we gather, share, analyze, monitor and evaluate information.
Mobile Technologies: Uxo Lao's Easy Sketch Map, Hayashi Ontoku Akihito
Mobile Technologies: Uxo Lao's Easy Sketch Map, Hayashi Ontoku Akihito
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Established in 1996, the Lao National Unexploded Ordnance Programme (UXO Lao) promotes risk education and clears land for agriculture, community purposes (e.g., schools, hospitals, temples and water supplies) and other development activities. UXO Lao is working in the nine most impacted Lao provinces nationwide. Although recent changes occurred to UXO Lao’s survey procedure, the program continues mapping out contaminated areas throughout the country.
Building Tajikistan’S National Capacity, Bahriniso Shamsieva
Building Tajikistan’S National Capacity, Bahriniso Shamsieva
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Headquartered in Vienna, Austria, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is an international organization of 57 member States. Currently conducting 16 field missions, OSCE develops confidence building measures in the field of security while providing conflict- prevention capabilities and a capacity-building process for participating nations. These mine action activities are supported by the OSCE Permanent Council and implemented by field missions via partnerships with the host countries.
Afghanistan’S National Mine Action Strategic Plan (2016–2021), Mohammad Akbar Oriakhil
Afghanistan’S National Mine Action Strategic Plan (2016–2021), Mohammad Akbar Oriakhil
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Afghanistan suffers from severe landmine and explosive remnants of war (ERW) contamination, mostly as a result of the Soviet-Afghan War (1979–1989), internal conflict lasting from 1992 to 1996, and the United States-led coalition intervention in late 2001.
The Uxo Sector In Laos, Titus Peachey
The Uxo Sector In Laos, Titus Peachey
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Nearly fifty years after the nine-year Secret War (1964–1973), Laos is the scene of a US$35–$40 million annual enterprise, employing more than 3,000 workers who, with assistance from governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGO) around the world, are engaged in unexploded ordnance (UXO) clearance, victim assistance and mine risk education (MRE). The 2.2 million tons of bombs included an estimated 270 million cluster munitions, many of which failed to detonate on impact and created a lethal landscape to which villagers returned after the war. The inevitable post-war casualties now number more than 20,000. A high percentage of victims over the past …
Explosive Remnants Of War: A Deadly Threat To Refugees, Ken Rutherford, Andrew Cooney
Explosive Remnants Of War: A Deadly Threat To Refugees, Ken Rutherford, Andrew Cooney
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
The deadly legacy of explosive remnants of war (ERW), including landmines, improvised explosive devices (IED) and unexploded ordnance (UXO) is increasingly a threat to refugee populations, economic migrants and internally displaced persons (IDP) in countries throughout Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
Finding Legacy Minefields In The Jordan Valley, Jamal Odibat
Finding Legacy Minefields In The Jordan Valley, Jamal Odibat
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Due to the many difficulties in accurately determining the location of legacy minefields, demining personnel need traditional and sometimes improvised methods for locating and verifying contamination. With a unique combination of terrain, vegetation, water resources and soil types, the Jordan Valley requires specialized minefield survey and clearance methods to avoid harming the environment.
Maximizing The Effectiveness Of Mobile Technology, Howard Rudat
Maximizing The Effectiveness Of Mobile Technology, Howard Rudat
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Mobile technology has transformed the way we live our lives and has the potential to dramatically assist in demining. However, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) systems coupled with explosive remnants of war (ERW) related applications leave capability gaps and create potential risks that must be closed. A more tailored and deliberate ecosystem approach when employing mobile technology will yield greater benefits and avoid the problems encountered when Alexa, Cortana, Google Now or Siri do not provide the necessary information. It seems that at the times when you need information the most, the smart personal assistants provided by Google, Apple and Microsoft either …
Endnotes Issue 20.2, Cisr Jmu
Endnotes Issue 20.2, Cisr Jmu
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Endnotes Issue 20.2
Mobile Technology In Mine Action: The Fulcrum Application, Camille Wallen, Nick Torbet
Mobile Technology In Mine Action: The Fulcrum Application, Camille Wallen, Nick Torbet
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
In 2014, The HALO Trust (HALO) began trialing Fulcrum, a mobile data collection application for survey developed by Fulcrum Mobile Solutions. Due to the success of the trial, the subscription-based commercial product, designed specifically for mobile data collection, was used in eight HALO programs. Using Fulcrum, HALO has created 35 applications that collect data for a variety of outputs, including rapid contamination assessments, socioeconomic and impact surveys, minefield quality assurance checks, vehicle and logistics checks, and a number of reports including technical and nontechnical surveys, explosive ordnance disposal (EOD), mine risk education (MRE), and daily minefield stats reports.
Emerging Environmental Justice Issues In Nuclear Power And Radioactive Contamination, Dean Kyne, Bob Bolin
Emerging Environmental Justice Issues In Nuclear Power And Radioactive Contamination, Dean Kyne, Bob Bolin
Sociology Faculty Publications and Presentations
Nuclear hazards, linked to both U.S. weapons programs and civilian nuclear power, pose substantial environment justice issues. Nuclear power plant (NPP) reactors produce low-level ionizing radiation, high level nuclear waste, and are subject to catastrophic contamination events. Justice concerns include plant locations and the large potentially exposed populations, as well as issues in siting, nuclear safety, and barriers to public participation. Other justice issues relate to extensive contamination in the U.S. nuclear weapons complex, and the mining and processing industries that have supported it. To approach the topic, first we discuss distributional justice issues of NPP sites in the U.S. …
Documentation And Emotions: Producing Displaced Legal Subjects, Susan M. Sterett
Documentation And Emotions: Producing Displaced Legal Subjects, Susan M. Sterett
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Disasters are globally inflected today in humanitarian assistance, the organizations that support people after disaster and operate globally, and in the mobilization of arguments international human rights arguments. The domestic bureaucratic processes of humanitarian assistance after disaster in the United States do not state these connections; after Hurricane Katrina in the United States, they were most evident in the people and organizations that helped, and in the flow of humanitarian assistance from around the world that paid for assistance. Second, domestic documents for claiming assistance must limit that assistance to people hurt in disaster. That means they assist people who …
Restoring Ubuntu: Ecosystemic, Biopsychosocial, Afrocentric Networks For The Trauma-Healing Of Sexual Violence Survivors In Eastern Congo, Summer D. Downs
Restoring Ubuntu: Ecosystemic, Biopsychosocial, Afrocentric Networks For The Trauma-Healing Of Sexual Violence Survivors In Eastern Congo, Summer D. Downs
Honors Projects
The purpose of this paper is to propose that trauma healing in the Congo should be directed by the agency of Africans, characterized by an ubuntu-based systems epistemology, and facilitated throughcreative, multi-modal networks.
An Investigation Into Hazard Mitigation Tools At Institutes Of Higher Education, Robert A. Jackson
An Investigation Into Hazard Mitigation Tools At Institutes Of Higher Education, Robert A. Jackson
Theses and Dissertations from 2016
Current theories for community planning assert that multiple stakeholders should be involved to improve civic cohesion and implementation. Since an institute of higher education (IHE) operates like a town or city in many ways, it is appropriate that the emergency management planning within an IHE should engage multiple stakeholders. Emergency management planning at an IHE focuses on the students who while adults, are not traditionally valued for their input in emergency management planning. Emergency management leaders at IHEs across the country were surveyed. Following correlation analysis, results indicated that an IHE with student involvement in emergency management planning had an …
Teaching Preparedness To Better Prepare Children In The Event Of Disaster, Brian Kendall
Teaching Preparedness To Better Prepare Children In The Event Of Disaster, Brian Kendall
Theses and Dissertations from 2016
The purpose of this research was to determine if teaching preparedness to children will better prepare them in the event of a disaster. Children have been the target audience for several campaigns in the past. By introducing disaster awareness into the schools, it is hoped, like in other campaigns, that children will take the knowledge obtained and share that information to family and friends. This study was significant to the field of emergency management due to the need of providing the general public with the necessary information and resources that could potentially save lives. As a result of this study, …
K-12 And The Active Shooter: Principals’ Perceptions Of Armed Personnel In New Jersey District Factor Group Gh Public Schools, Brian P. Kelly
K-12 And The Active Shooter: Principals’ Perceptions Of Armed Personnel In New Jersey District Factor Group Gh Public Schools, Brian P. Kelly
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
The purpose of this study was to explore the predicament school principals face when formulating the best methodology to provide a safe environment for their students and faculty, while simultaneously creating an atmosphere that is conducive to education.
This multiple-case study is a replication of a dissertation published in 2014 which explored a unique phenomenon containing multiple variables within an urban public school district. Conversely, this research study examined suburban public school districts within communities that possessed a median household salary ranging between $86,000 and $105,000, where the socioeconomic status of these schools is identified and delineated by New Jersey …
Oljeskyddsberedskap I Sverige, Jonas Pålsson
Oljeskyddsberedskap I Sverige, Jonas Pålsson
Jonas Pålsson
The Baltic Sea is one of the world’s busiest waterways. An estimated 9 % of the world’s trade and 11 % of the world’s oil transportation passes through Baltic waters. It is estimated that this will increase by 64 % between 2003 and 2020. For example, the oil transportation has increased by 133 % between 1997 and 2008 and is now over 250 million tonnes per year. Plenty of shallows and narrow passages makes parts of the Baltic Sea difficult to navigate. There are around 130 accidents each year, with 10 of these leading to pollution, mostly of oil. The …