empathi: An ontology for Emergency Managing and Planning about Hazard Crisis

In the domain of emergency management during hazard crises, having sufficient situational awareness information is critical. It requires capturing and integrating information from sources such as satellite images, local sensors and social media content generated by local people. A bold obstacle to capturing, representing and integrating such heterogeneous and diverse information is lack of a proper ontology which properly conceptualizes this domain, aggregates and unifies datasets. Thus, in this paper, we introduce empathi ontology which conceptualizes the core concepts concerning with the domain of emergency managing and planning of hazard crises. Although empathi has a coarse-grained view, it considers the necessary concepts and relations being essential in this domain. This ontology is available at https://w3id.org/empathi/

Environmental Risk Analysis: Problems and Perspectives in Different Countries

The authors discuss various industrial accidents, which have led to growing concerns about the potential hazards and risks involved in chemical process industries

Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health From Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism, 2009

Based on ten indicators, assesses progress in the readiness of states, federal government, and hospitals to respond to public health emergencies, with a focus on the H1N1 flu. Outlines improvements and concerns in funding, accountability, and other areas

Food security, risk management and climate change

This report identifies major constraints to the adaptive capacity of food organisations operating in Australia. This report is about food security, climate change and risk management. Australia has enjoyed an unprecedented level of food security for more than half a century, but there are new uncertainties emerging and it would be unrealistic – if not complacent – to assume the same level of food security will persist simply because of recent history. The project collected data from more than 36 case study organisations (both foreign and local) operating in the Australian food-supply chain, and found that for many businesses,  risk management practices require substantial improvement to cope with and exploit the uncertainties that lie ahead. Three risks were identified as major constraints to adaptive capacity of food organisations operating in Australia:  risk management practices; an uncertain regulatory environment – itself a result of gaps in risk management; climate change uncertainty and projections about climate change impacts, also related to risk management

Global Health Security in an Era of Explosive Pandemic Potential

Pandemics pose a significant risk to security, economic stability, and development. Annualized expected losses from pandemics are estimated at $60 billion per year. Despite the certainty and magnitude of the threat, the global community has significantly underestimated and underinvested in avoidance of pandemic threats. We cannot wait or continue with the status quo, in which we pay attention to infectious disease threats only when they are at their peak and then are complacent and remain vulnerable until the next major outbreak. To reinforce and sustain international focus, funding, and action, it is crucial that pandemics rise to the level of “high politics,” becoming standing agenda items for political actors. In this article, we make the case for fundamental reform of the international system to safeguard global health security. We build on the action agenda offered by four international commissions formed in the wake of the Ebola epidemic, calling for the recommended “peace dividend” (an annual incremental investment of$4.5 billion – 65 cents per person) to strengthen global preparedness, for the United Nations to play a greater role in responding to major global health and humanitarian emergencies, and for an effective and efficient R&D strategy with multiple stakeholders—governments, academics, industry, and civil society—identifying R&D priorities and leading a coordinated response. If our action plan were adopted, it would safeguard the global population far better against infectious disease threats. It would reap dividends in security, development, and productivity

Kriza i krizni menadžment - prilog konceptualnom i terminološkom razgraničenju

Crisis and crisis management are relatively new concepts in Serbia, both in theory and in practice. Their implementation is accompanied by terminological confusion regarding basic phenomena - emergency situations, crises, conflicts and catastrophes, as well as various kinds of management attempts at managing uncertainties and hazards. This work is an attempted contribution to a conceptual and terminological delimitation in this field.Kriza i krizni menadžment su relativno novi koncepti u Srbiji u teorijskom i praktičnom smislu. Njihova implementacija praćena je terminološkom konfuzijom koja se odnosi na osnovne fenomene - vanrednu situaciju, krizu konflikt i katastrofu, ali i različite vrste menadžmenta koji predstavljaju pokusaj da se upravlja neizvesnostima i opasnostima. Rad predstavlja pokušaj da se doprinese konceptualnom i terminološkom razgraničenju u ovoj oblasti

Kriza i krizni menadžment - prilog konceptualnom i terminološkom razgraničenju

Crisis and crisis management are relatively new concepts in Serbia, both in theory and in practice. Their implementation is accompanied by terminological confusion regarding basic phenomena - emergency situations, crises, conflicts and catastrophes, as well as various kinds of management attempts at managing uncertainties and hazards. This work is an attempted contribution to a conceptual and terminological delimitation in this field.Kriza i krizni menadžment su relativno novi koncepti u Srbiji u teorijskom i praktičnom smislu. Njihova implementacija praćena je terminološkom konfuzijom koja se odnosi na osnovne fenomene - vanrednu situaciju, krizu konflikt i katastrofu, ali i različite vrste menadžmenta koji predstavljaju pokusaj da se upravlja neizvesnostima i opasnostima. Rad predstavlja pokušaj da se doprinese konceptualnom i terminološkom razgraničenju u ovoj oblasti