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Some environmental changes (either natural or anthropogenic usually caused by leaving sustainable management of its natural resources) alter natural conditions to such an extent that individuals and entire communities are forced to leave their place of permanent residence and seek another that would provide them with at least the minimum subsistence level of living. Some of those journeys may be temporary and cover small distances; others may involve crossing the border of one’s homeland with no hope of ever coming back. Migrants struggle with not only their precarious financial situation, but also a wide range of legal and administrative difficulties, often compounded by social, cultural, religious, and political issues. Even though the number of people fleeing inhospitable environments is increasing every year, the international community and host countries refuse to grant them status to ensure due protection. This, however, does not relieve anybody from the obligation to search for a viable solution.
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The paper focuses on emergencies in a particular region of the Slovak Republic. The focus is mainly on describing the emergencies to which the region is most vulnerable and classifying them, as well as specific locations or businesses where there is a high risk of an emergency occurring. From the point of view of the effects of possible emergencies on the district of Bratislava, the most likely situations are natural disasters (floods from precipitation and watercourses, hailstorms, storms, landslides, ice) and accidents (fires, explosions and releases of dangerous substances). When planning rescue work, it is necessary to start from the worst-case scenario of the emergency, while the most important measure to protect the population is issuing warnings and possible evacuation. Special attention should be paid to the following measures: checking the safety measures around hydrological structures and watercourses, carrying out checks on legal entities and natural persons – entrepreneurs who manufacture, store and handle hazardous substances, preparing controlling organizations, forces and resources to carry out rescue work, preparing the population for self-protection and mutual assistance in the event of emergencies, mutual cooperation of rescue teams in preparation for emergencies, exchange of experience and knowledge with neighbouring districts.
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Wraz z globalnym ociepleniem wzrasta częstotliwość i skala klęsk naturalnych. Ich skutki mają charakter nie tylko społeczny i środowiskowy, ale także ekonomiczny. Zdolność do odbudowy oraz jej tempo, w przypadku jednostek gospodarczych może decydować o pozostaniu na rynku oraz uzyskiwanych przez organizacje wynikach. W artykule przedstawiono wyniku badania poziomu odbudowy krajowych organizacji, po wystąpieniu wybranych klęsk naturalnych. Skoncentrowano się na uwarunkowaniach tego poziomu, tj. wielkość i wiek organizacji, sektor działalności.
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Along with global warming, the frequency and scale of natural disasters increases. Their generates not only social and environmental effects, but also economic. The ability to recover and its rate, in the case of business, may decide about staying on the market and the results obtained by organizations. The article presents the result of the study of the level of recover of polish organizations after the occurrence of natural disasters. We focus on the determinants of this level, i.e. the size and age of the organization, the sector.
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Content available remote Versatile rescue and transport vehicle
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The article presents a concept of a tracked floating vehicle intended for, inter alia, the transport of fire fighting containers to places inaccessible to ordinary wheeled vehicles. The vehicle could also be a means of evacuating people, animals and equipment from disaster-stricken areas. It would serve the services supervised by the Crisis Management Centre, including the fire brigades. The vehicle's specific features include the ability to negotiate rubbles and boggy land and to float. The container self-loading system allows for autonomy and independence of the vehicle from lifting equipment. Use of composite construction materials significantly reduces the weight of the vehicle.
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Content available remote Uniwersalny pojazd ratowniczo-transportowy
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W artykule przedstawiono koncepcję gąsienicowego, pływającego pojazdu przeznaczonego m.in. do transportu kontenerów pożarniczych w miejsca niedostępne dla zwykłych pojazdów kołowych. Pojazd mógłby być również środkiem ewakuacji ludzi, zwierząt i sprzętu z terenów dotkniętych klęską żywiołową. Stanowiłby wyposażenie służb podległych Centrom Zarządzania Kryzysowego, w tym jednostek straży pożarnej. Cechą charakterystyczną pojazdu jest zdolność do pokonywania zawałów, terenów grząskich i do pływania. Wyposażenie pojazdu w układ samozaładowczy kontenerów pozwala uzyskać autonomię i uniezależnienie od urządzeń dźwigowych. Zastosowanie kompozytów, jako materiału konstrukcyjnego, pozwoli na istotne zmniejszenie masy wozu.
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The article presents a concept of a tracked floating vehicle intended for, inter alia, the transport of fire fighting containers to places inaccessible to ordinary wheeled vehicles. The vehicle could also be a means of evacuating people, animals and equipment from disaster-stricken areas. It would serve the services supervised by the Crisis Management Centre, including the fire brigades. The vehicle's specific features include the ability to negotiate rubbles and boggy land and to float. The container self-loading system allows for autonomy and independence of the vehicle from lifting equipment. Use of composite construction materials significantly reduces the weight of the vehicle.
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W dorzeczach rzeki Kura (Turcja) często występują powodzie stanowiące poważne zagrożenie dla lokalnej ludności. Przeprowadzone badania mają na celu sprawdzenie, czy ogólnodostępne dane teledetekcyjne mogą dostarczyć cennych informacji dotyczących zasięgu powodzi w tym regionie. Jako przykład przeanalizowano powódź, która miała miejsce w 2010 roku. Przedstawiono różne mapy ilustrujące to wydarzenie i porównano je z danymi satelitarnymi Landsat. Mapa obszarów zalanych została opracowana z wykorzystaniem oprogramowania ArcGIS 10.2.1. Szczególną uwagę poświęcono identyfikacji zalewanych obszarów. Badania wykazały, że w mapach przygotowanych przez agencje rządowe istniały poważne błędy. Na podstawie interpretacji zdjęć satelitarnych ustalono i odwzorowano obszary całkowicie i częściowo zniszczone przez powódź.
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In the Kura River basin floods occur frequently and pose a major threat for the local population. This research aims to test if freely available remotely sensed data may provide valuable information on flood extent in this region. Flood in 2010 was analysed as a flood event example. Various maps illustrating this event were collected and compared to satellite Landsat data. A map of the flooded areas was developed with ArcGIS 10.2.1 software. Attention was paid to the identification of inundated areas. It was found that there were serious faults in the map prepared by the responsible government agencies. On the basis of satellite image interpretation, districts completely and partly damaged by the flood were determined and mapped.
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As a manufacturing, logistics and supply chain hub within ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), Thailand holds the 12th spot in global vehicle production for an estimated 2,355 Thai and multinational automotive industry enterprises. Within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Thailand ranks number one in automotive production contributing $US11.4 billion to the Thai economy and 12 percent to Thailand’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product), with the automotive industry being Thailand’s leading export sector. However, the automotive companies envisage the difficulty of cultural diversity to manage and coordinate. Therefore, cultural values from the milieu are inducted into the workplace and have a strong impact on both individual behavior and organizational effectiveness and must be direction at all levels for cross-cultural, organizational effectiveness to be achieved. It also became evident that natural disasters are frequent and highly disruptive to the global automotive supply chain and paces must be taken to countervailing the notable and continuing loss to economic growth and organizational effectiveness to both sector units and the global industry. The implementation of strategically placed, environmentally ‘habituated’, automotive parts logistics cache might be one solution to the problem. Given the crucial importance of this sector to the economy of the region and the global supply chain, the researchers surveyed 220 managers using a 7-point Likert scale questionnaire within the multinational industrial clusters of Thailand’s ‘Detroit of Asia’ Eastern Seaboard region. Using Structural Equation Modelling to test the 11 variables on Logistics Management, Supply Chain Management and Organizational Effectiveness in a cross-cultural context, it was determined that collaboration within the supply chain and the exchange of information can reduce uncertainty, with trust being a key ingredient to a JV’s success. Communication (0.836), trust (0.834) and collaboration (0.824) were ranked as significant components of cross-cultural Supply Chain Management effectiveness. The research also confirmed that the hypothesized difficulty from cultural diversity is difficult to manage and to coordinate. Analysis also confirmed the ongoing and significant problems to the global automotive supply chain by natural disasters and the consequential economic losses.
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Coraz częstsze klęski żywiołowe wymagają posiadania sprzętu umożliwiającego szybką ewakuację bądź przywrócenie komunikacji pieszej z lądem. Istniejące wojskowe kładki szturmowe nie spełniają wymagań cywilnych w zakresie bezpieczeństwa eksploatacji przez osoby cywilne. W artykule przedstawiono koncepcję lekkiej modułowej kładki dla pieszych do zastosowań w sytuacjach kryzysowych w środowisku cywilnym. Kładka przeznaczona jest do pokonywania przeszkód terenowych o szerokości do 20 m. Optymalizacja konstrukcji w zakresie kształtu, wytrzymałości, masy oraz technologii montażu, pozwoliła na otrzymanie modułów, które zapewniają jej łatwy transport i montaż. Budowa może być wykonywana przez małe zespoły ludzi, bez specjalnego sprzętu i przygotowania, za wyjątkiem osób nadzoru. Jej modułowość pozwala na łatwą adaptację do warunków terenowych. Istnieje możliwość opracowania konstrukcji pod nowe wymagania służb kryzysowych w zakresie funkcjonalności poprzez zmianę długości i szerokości użytkowej pomostu.
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Increasing occurrence of natural disasters requires the use of such equipment which would enable either rapid evacuation, or quick restoration of pedestrian infrastructure with the mainland. The existing infantry footbridges, however, do not fulfil the civilian standards of safety of use. The paper presents a concept of a light modular footbridge for pedestrian use in crisis situations. This footbridge would be used to cross obstacles 20 m-wide. Optimization of the construction in terms of size, mechanical strength and resistance to environmental factor, the weight and production technology enabled the development of modules which guarantee easy transport and assembly. The assembly is simple; it can be done by a small group of people without the need for special equipment or machinery and requiring only minimum amount of supervision. The modular structure allows the users to adapt it to various terrain conditions with ease. Furthermore, the modular footbridge can be adjusted so as to accommodate the new requirements issued by the crisis services, as far as the functionality is concerned – both the length and width of the footbridge can be altered.
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This paper presents a wavelet-based multifractal approach to characterize the statistical properties of temporal distribution of the 19822012 seismic activity in Mammoth Mountain volcano. The fractal analysis of time-occurrence series of seismicity has been carried out in relation to seismic swarm in association with magmatic intrusion happening beneath the volcano on 4 May 1989. We used the wavelet transform modulus maxima based multifractal formalism to get the multifractal characteristics of seismicity before, during, and after the unrest. The results revealed that the earthquake sequences across the study area show time-scaling features. It is clearly perceived that the multifractal characteristics are not constant in different periods and there are differences among the seismicity sequences. The attributes of singularity spectrum have been utilized to determine the complexity of seismicity for each period. Findings show that the temporal distribution of earthquakes for swarm period was simpler with respect to pre- and post-swarm periods.
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Climate change has dramatically increased the frequency of natural disasters that destroy ever-larger areas inhabited by people. Thus, a complete change of spatial planning conception is needed. This paper aims to describe the technical capabilities of ArchitrAdom, an innovative construction and architectural project. The structure has been designed for use in areas at risk from natural disasters: floods, hurricanes and earthquakes. It eliminates the drawbacks of traditional residential developments, which is not disaster-resistant. This project allows for whole urban organisms to be build. The project's focus is on elevating usable area above the surface of the flooded terrain and shaping the building; as to make it as resistant to wind force as possible. The other key aspect is the integration of the structure by means of lines and bands which increases the buildings resilience. The advantages of ArchitrAdom are: • resistance to natural disasters and the effects of climate change, • various adaptations: residential establishments, public utilitybuildings, public space, etc., • significant flexibility in forming groups of buildings: villages, housing estates, quarters, towns, etc., • the highest respect for rules of sustainable and ecological design, • an advantage in advanced préfabrication to minimizes costs.
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Content available Zmagania zarządcy drogi z siłami natury
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W dniach od 30 marca do 1 kwietnia br. w centrum konferencyjno-rekreacyjnym Geovita w Zakopanem odbyła się konferencja Współczesne technologie w świetle zabezpieczenia infrastruktury drogowej przed klęskami żywiołowymi.
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This issue of “Mineralogy” includes selected papers based on some oral and poster presentations of the 1st Geochemical Conference on “Contemporary Problems of Geochemistry” organized by the Geochemical Group of the Mineralogical Society of Poland and Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce. The conference was held at the Institute of Chemistry of Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce on 27–30 September 2010.
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W pracy przedstawiono propozycje większej skuteczności zarządzania kryzysowego w warunkach klęski żywiołowej, na przykładzie powodzi, poprzez włączenie organizacji pozarządowych oraz grup społeczności lokalnej i osób indywidualnych - wolontariuszy do wojewódzkich, gminnych, miejskich sztabów kryzysowych. W celu przygotowania i koordynacji działań tych organizacji, proponuje się powołanie Wojewódzkiego Sztabu Kryzysowego Organizacji Pozarządowych. Ostatnie powodzie potwierdziły celowość powołania oraz działania takich jednostek organizacyjnych w każdym województwie.
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The paper presents proposals of including non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and voivodship etc. anti-flood protection teams. To improve effectiveness of the activities performed by these organizations, it is necessary to create the Voivodship Crisis Centre of Non- Governmental Organisations.
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Content available remote The art and science of large-scale disasters
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The subject of large-scale disasters is broadly introduced in this article. Both the art and science of predicting, preventing and mitigating natural and manmade disasters are discussed. A universal, quantitative metric that puts all natural and manmade disasters on a common scale is proposed. Issues of prediction, control and mitigation of catastrophes are presented. The laws of nature govern the evolution of any disaster. In some cases, as for example weather-related disasters, the first-principles laws of classical mechanics could be written in the form of field equations, but exact solutions of these often nonlinear differential equations are impossible to obtain particularly for turbulent flows, and heuristic models together with intensive use of supercomputers are necessary to proceed to a reasonably accurate forecast. In other cases, as for example earthquakes, the precise laws are not even known and prediction becomes more or less a black art. Management of any type of disaster is more art than science. Nevertheless, much can be done to alleviate the resulting pain and suffering. The expansive presentation of the broad field of large-scale disasters precludes a detailed coverage of anyone of the many topics touched upon. Three take-home messages are conveyed, however: a universal metric for all natural and manmade disasters is presented; all facets of the genre are described; and a proposal is made to view all disasters as dynamical systems governed for the most part by the laws of classical mechanics.
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Natural disasters have an effect on many important economic and social parameters and are related to a wide spectrum of sciences. Their kind, form, scale, intensity and other characteristics vary in different areas on Earth. One of the most common fields where such disasters are of great importance (either as threats or as resulting damage) is the urban environment (either the buildings or the infrastructure). The complexity of the natural disasters concerning each of the five phases in their lifecycle (prevention, rnitigation, preparedness, emergency management, recovery) leads to the selection of strong and most capable tools, in order to predict their results, Le. the damage. Since nowadays the geospatial technologies have undergone an effective shift to become better suited to the internet, the most appropriate tools for this purpose are the Web-based GIS. In this review paper, a Web-based GIS, which is under development, named SyNaRMa (Information System for Natural Risk Management in the Mediterranean) is being presented. SyNaRMa features include collection and analysis of data related to earthquakes, landslides and forest fires, simulation of natural disaster effects resulting from realistic scenarios and prediction of their impact on the natural and anthropogenic environment of the wider implementation areas. It is to be noted that its open architecture offers many benefits and conveniences for future plans as for example the incorporation within the system of data related to other natural disasters (e.g. drought, desertification, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions etc.) and the potential to be used all over the world.
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Klęski żywiołowe mają wpływ na wiele ważnych parametrów ekonomicznych i socjalnych i dotyczą zagadnień związanych z szerokim spektrum dyscyplin naukowych. Ich rodzaj, forma, skala, natężenie i inne charakterystyki są różne w różnych rejonach Ziemi. Jednym z obszarów, gdzie klęski żywiołowe są niezmiernie ważne (jako zagrożenia lub jako wywołane nimi zniszczenia) są tereny zurbanizowane (budynki lub infrastruktura). Złożoność klęsk żywiołowych w każdej z 5 faz ich cyklu życiowego (zapobieganie, łagodzenie, gotowość, awaryjne zarządzanie, powrót do poprzedniego stanu) wymaga wyboru specjalistycznych narzędzi w celu przewidzenia ich konsekwencji, tj. zniszczenia. Współczesne technologie zarządzania informacją przestrzenną pozwalają na sprawne zarządzanie informacją w warunkach rozproszonych baz danych, wobec czego najodpowiedniejszym narzędziem do tego celu są systemy GIS wykorzystujące do komunikacji internet (Web-GlS). W niniejszej pracy został zaprezentowany system typu Web-GIS o nazwie SyNaRMa (Information System for Natural Risk Management in the Mediterranean). Do zadań tego systemu należy zbieranie i analiza danych dotyczących takich klęsk żywiołowych jak: trzęsienia ziemi, osuwiska i pożary lasów, a także symulowanie konsekwencji klęsk żywiołowych w oparciu o realistyczne scenariusze. System umożliwia również opracowywanie prognoz oddziaływania klęsk żywiołowych na naturalne i antropogeniczne środowisko. Należy zwrócić uwagę, że otwarta architektura opracowanego systemu umożliwia dalszy jego rozwój, np. w kierunku połączenia z systemem baz danych dotyczących innych klęsk żywiołowych (np. susze, pustynnienie, tsunami, wybuchy wulkanów itp.) oraz zapewnia możliwość jego użycia na całym świecie.
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Content available remote Informacja z satelitów meteorologicznych w stanach zagrożeń naturalnych
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The paper presents possibilities for monitoring current state of atmosphere and Earth surface, thanks to information from meteorological satellites recorded by Krakow Branch Office of the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management. Such an information is operationally used by hydrological and meteorological forecasting offices, among other purposes for early detection of of natural hazards. Fast development of meteorological satellite data processing and interpretation technology allows for use of that information in disater analysis and monitoring. High temporal resolution of registered data (15 min) and satellite information processing and interpretation methods developed at the IMWM are of basic importance for the use of those data in emergency situations. The IMWM operationally use satellite information from: METEOSAT, NOAA and Feng Yun satellite systems. Special attention is paid to such use of the information as detection of storm initiation area and storm development monitoring, rainfall intensity and range, snow and ice covered area, vegetation state and its anomalies related to drought, fires, floods and human activity. Another important issue in the nuclear threat era is possibility to monitor directions of long-distant contamination transport (including radioactive) into mid/upper troposphere and stratosphere. Current possibilities and limitations of satellite information use were also presented.
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