Disaster Management In Central Java Province, Indonesia

Recent disasters in Indonesia have brought disaster management as the first priority of actions as government's responsibility role. A pro-active approach to elucidate the problem through concentrating on post-disaster and pre-disaster phases in addition to disaster phase has become very important management pertaining to disaster. Disaster management must be applied as an integrated and comprehensive activity. It is a continuing process not temporary action. Integration means and implies linkage in all aspects as well as dimensions and comprehensive implies broad coverage. This paper will discuss the disaster management in Central Java Province and inherent aspects ofenvironment in Central Java Province. Besides that, this paper emphasizes the role of Diponegoro University, Indonesia along with Joint Working Group on Geotechnical on Geotechnical Engineering for Disaster Mitigation and Rehabilitation (JWG-DMR) and Ministry of Public Works of the Republic of Indonesia conducting specific program in evolving suitable programs for preventing, rehabilitating and mitigating future disaster

Disaster education in the UK

The seminar series brought together emergency management specialists and educationalists to explore how disaster management knowledge, innovation and education can contribute to building a culture of safety and resilience in the UK. The series was primarily focussed on ways of understanding UK disaster reduction contexts, though informed by contributions from other parts of the world. The strengthening of debate on practical and policy developments for disaster education helped exchange experiences and ideas about dealing with changing hazards and vulnerabilities. This contributed to wider and strengthened interest in disaster risk reduction engagement through associated educational needs. The series analysed conceptual, practical and policy issues surrounding UK disaster education. Institutional partners were The universities of Northumbria (lead), Glamorgan, UCL and Kyoto served as partners with significant inputs from practice institutions, including in hosting of seminars. This facilitated a rich mix of learning cultures from within and without the academy for open debate and awareness building regards learning and education in disaster reduction. There are consequent developments for further activities beyond the life of this grant, such as ongoing additional conference sessions on disaster education, an EU project, and a DFID funded disaster education and community resilience programme in Zimbabwe and Bangladesh. These also feed back into the UK context. The series exposed a deeply held interest in disaster education from within the UK emergency management sector. Key conclusions were the need to develop in depth grounded learning processes, integrated institutional development and mixed qualitative and quantitative tools for the job

Gender mainstreaming in disaster reduction: Why and how?

The significant losses in human life and livelihoods, the destruction of economic and social infrastructure and damage to the environment caused by disasters in the past decade has increased the necessity for proper disaster reduction and risk management strategies. A disaster is shown as a combination of a trigger agent and vulnerabilities. Since vulnerabilities are the dependant component of a disaster, they should be managed and minimised in order to reduce disasters. Disaster reduction policies and measures, which ensure a decrease in vulnerabilities, need to be formed and implemented to achieve a sustainable and consistent plan of disaster management. Since women are more vulnerable in a disaster, their needs and concerns should be widely integrated into risk reduction plans and procedures from both perspectives of women as beneficiaries and decision makers. Gender mainstreaming is considered an important element in disaster reduction policy making to integrate a gender equality perspective in all policies at all levels. Gender mainstreaming in disaster reduction refers to promoting awareness about gender equity and equality, to help reduce the impact of disasters and to incorporate gender analysis in disaster management, risk reduction and sustainable development to decrease vulnerability. This paper reviews literature on disaster reduction and gender mainstreaming to emphasise why gender mainstreaming has become a necessity in disaster reduction attempts and to highlight the ways in which it can be achieve

Integrated disaster recovery: Linking health care and disaster case management

In long-term recovery from natural disasters, the federal government helps to rebuild infrastructure, but individuals face a chaotic and uncoordinated assembly of state and local programs, insurance coverage, and assistance from nongovernmental organizations. The Federal Emergency Management Agency and other organizations have utilized case management, which matches individual needs for housing, health care, employment, and education, etc. with appropriate resources, to coordinate disaster recovery. However, these efforts have had uneven results. Case management limitations include: inability to identify and locate all those in need, implementation barriers, inability to scale services for large urban disasters, and poor sustainability. Linking disaster recovery case management with health care organizations, especially those with pre-existing health care case management programs, is a practical, scalable and sustainable approach to integrating the many aspects of disaster recovery and is a way for building community resilience before and after disasters

Disaster management in low- and middle-income countries: scoping review of the evidence base

Introduction: Globally, there has been an increase in the prevalence and scale of disasters with low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) tending to be more affected. Consequently, disaster risk reduction has been advocated as a global priority. However, the evidence base for disaster management in these settings is unclear. Methods: This study is a scoping review of the evidence base for disaster management in LMIC. Potentially relevant articles between 1990 and 2011 were searched for, assessed for relevance and subsequently categorised using a thematic coding framework based on the US Integrated Emergency Management System model. Results: Out of 1545 articles identified, only 178 were from LMIC settings. Most were of less robust design such as event reports and commentaries, and 66% pertained to natural disasters. There was a paucity of articles on disaster mitigation or recovery, and more were written on disaster response and preparedness issues. Discussion: Considerably more articles were published from high-income country settings that may reflect a publication bias. Current grey literature on disaster management tends not to be peer reviewed, is not well organised and not easy to access. The paucity of peer-reviewed publications compromises evidence review initiatives that seek to provide an evidence-base for disaster management in LMIC. As such, there is an urgent need for greater research and publication of findings on disaster management issues from these settings

A Spatial Analysis and Modeling System (SAMS) for environment management

This is a proposal to develop a uniform global environmental data gathering and distribution system to support the calibration and validation of remotely sensed data. SAMS is based on an enhanced version of FE MA's Integrated Emergency Management Information Systems and the Department of Defense's Air Land Battlefield Environment Software Systems. This system consists of state-of-the-art graphics and visualization techniques, simulation models, database management and expert systems for conducting environmental and disaster preparedness studies. This software package will be integrated into various Landsat and UNEP-GRID stations which are planned to become direct readout stations during the EOS timeframe. This system would be implemented as a pilot program to support the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM). This will be a joint NASA-FEMA-University-Industry project

From event analysis to global lessons: disaster forensics for building resilience

With unprecedented growth in disaster risk, there is an urgent need for enhanced learning about and understanding disasters, particularly in relation to the trends in the drivers of increasing risk. Building on the disaster forensics field, we introduce the Post Event Review Capability (PERC) methodology for systematically and holistically analyzing disaster events, and identifying actionable recommendations. PERC responds to a need for learning about the successes and failures in disaster risk management and resilience, and uncovers the underlying drivers of increasing risk. We draw generalizable insights identified from seven applications of the methodology to date, where we find that across the globe policy makers and practitioners in disaster risk management face strikingly similar challenges despite variations in context, indicating encouraging potential for mutual learning. These lessons highlight the importance of integrated risk reduction strategies. We invite others to utilize the freely available PERC approach and contribute to building a repository of learnings on disaster risk management and resilience. This discussion paper is under review for the journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS)

Penataan Kota Bermuatan Antisipasi Bencana

. Many types of disasters are resulted from natural phenomenon that cannot be avoided. What should we do is reducing the risks of the disasters. Here human safety is placed in the first priority. Each type of natural disaster brings specific hazard. Learning from previous disasters and scientific data of an area (or a city), we can analyze the potential of hazards, vulnerability, and strategy of mitigation for each threat of disaster. In reducing the risks of natural disasters, a city should be equipped with integrated plan for anticipating disasters. Follow are steps that should be needed: (1) Identifying disaster potentials; (2) Setting-up spatial plan that contains disaster-preparedness; and (3) Building institutions and tools of disaster management

Urban Diagnosis as a Methodology of Integrated Disaster Risk Management

本研究は、京都大学防災研究所21世紀 COE研究プロジェクトの一環で旧総合防災研究グループが2005年度に行った研究成果の概要をとりとめたものである。 本研究活動全体の主たる目的は総合的な災害リスクマネジメントのための方法論として、都市診断技法を開発し、発展させることである。すなわち、災害リスクマネジメント(災害リスクガバナンス、参加型災害リスクマネジメント)、都市空間の安全制御、地域水環境システム、防災社会システムの4つの研究課題を取り上げた。 五層モデルを用いて各研究の位置づけを示すとともに、それぞれの研究成果について概説した。This paper gives an outline of the research outcomes obtained in the fiscal year 2005 by the COE Research Group of Integrated Disaster Risk Management. The primary objective of our entire research activities is to develop and extend a methodology of “urban (regional) diagnosis” for integrated disaster risk management (IDRiM). There are four research focuses, Disaster Risk Management (Disaster risk governance and participatory disaster risk management), Safety control of urban space, Social group conflict analysis, and Social systems for disaster risk reduction and risk sharing. With our related research focuses positioned by a proposed 5-storied pagoda model, their primary results are discussed.本研究は、京都大学防災研究所21世紀 COE研究プロジェクトの一環で旧総合防災研究グループが2005年度に行った研究成果の概要をとりとめたものである。 本研究活動全体の主たる目的は総合的な災害リスクマネジメントのための方法論として、都市診断技法を開発し、発展させることである。すなわち、災害リスクマネジメント(災害リスクガバナンス、参加型災害リスクマネジメント)、都市空間の安全制御、地域水環境システム、防災社会システムの4つの研究課題を取り上げた。 五層モデルを用いて各研究の位置づけを示すとともに、それぞれの研究成果について概説した。This paper gives an outline of the research outcomes obtained in the fiscal year 2005 by the COE Research Group of Integrated Disaster Risk Management. The primary objective of our entire research activities is to develop and extend a methodology of “urban (regional) diagnosis” for integrated disaster risk management (IDRiM). There are four research focuses, Disaster Risk Management (Disaster risk governance and participatory disaster risk management), Safety control of urban space, Social group conflict analysis, and Social systems for disaster risk reduction and risk sharing. With our related research focuses positioned by a proposed 5-storied pagoda model, their primary results are discussed