Disasters as Extreme Events and the Importance of Network Interactions for Disaster Response Management

We discuss why disasters occur more frequently and are more serious than expected according to a normal distribution. Moreover, we investigate the interaction networks responsible for the cascade-like spreading of disasters. Such causality networks allow one to estimate the development of disasters...

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Autores principales: Helbing, Dirk, Ammoser, Hendrik, Kühnert, Christian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7123664/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28611-X_15
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spelling pubmed-71236642020-04-06 Disasters as Extreme Events and the Importance of Network Interactions for Disaster Response Management Helbing, Dirk Ammoser, Hendrik Kühnert, Christian Extreme Events in Nature and Society Article We discuss why disasters occur more frequently and are more serious than expected according to a normal distribution. Moreover, we investigate the interaction networks responsible for the cascade-like spreading of disasters. Such causality networks allow one to estimate the development of disasters with time, to give hints about when to take certain actions, to assess the suitability of alternative measures of emergency management, and to anticipate their side effects. Finally, we identify other fields where network theory could help to improve disaster response management. 2006 /pmc/articles/PMC7123664/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28611-X_15 Text en © Center for Frontier Sciences 2006 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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