Analisis Sentimen untuk Identifikasi Bantuan Korban Bencana Alam berdasarkan Data di Twitter Menggunakan Metode K-Means dan Naive Bayes by Vincentius Riandaru Prasetyo, Gatum Erlangga, Delta Ardy Prima

“…Based on the validation conducted with the Head of the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) in Tarakan City, this system can assist the Tarakan City BPBD in providing appropriate assistance to disaster locations. …”
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An Approach to Refining MODIS LAI Data Using a Fitting Scale Factor Time Series by Junxian Tang, Peijuan Wang, Rui Feng, Yang Li, Qing Li

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A new method for calculating highway blocking due to high-impact weather conditions by D. Liu, T. Jing, T. Jing, T. Jing, M. Yan, I. Gultepe, Y. Bao, Y. Bao, Y. Bao, H. Wang, F. Zu

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Seasonal and Regional Variability of Long-Wave Effective Radiation in China and Associated Modulating Factors by Qianrong Ma, Jie Zhang, Yu Gu, Yujun Ma, Yu Cao

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Coping with sand and dust storms: Developing and validating of an adaptation assessment tool by Shiva Salehi, Ali Ardalan, Abbas - Ostadtaghizadeh, Armin Zareiyan, Gholamreza Garmaroudi, Abbas Rahimiforoushani

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Human Diseases and Microbes

“…Much before the man became conscious of their existence or they became visible with the help of microscopes, they were active in their pathological action against all other living beings, including man. Many colossal disasters, caused by some unknown diseases occurred when thousands of the so called unbelievers perished, as mentioned in several ancient religious books, documents and treatises. …”
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The Report of Lightning in Himalayan Locale by Pitri Bhakta Adhikari

“…A few normal calamities (disasters) as often as possible happen within the Himalayan locale in Nepal. …”
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Health emergency and impermanence by Giuseppe De Giovanni

“…The project seizes time and controls its status, becoming a fundamental tool to respond to a continuously evolving reality, often subject of violent and quick transformations, as the ones caused by natural disasters and migrations, resulting from wars or political traumas, giving rise to new forms and systems belonging to a Temporary Architecture that we might call Healthcare. …”
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Flood Prevention and Maximised Wood Production at the Same Time: Sustainable Forestry in the Swiss Nineteenth Century by Martin Stuber

“…Previous research saw the nationwide implementation of sustainable forestry in the Swiss nineteenth century primarily as a response to the threat of flood disasters. In contrast, this article shows that Swiss sustainability pioneers aimed just as much at increasing wood production. …”
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Information Modeling Procedure to Represent a Territory Affected by Earthquake by Tommaso Empler

“… ARIM (Assessment Reconstruction Information Modeling) procedure can be seen as the evolution and integration of the BIM systems used so far to monitor and document the transformations of the territory, such as HBIM, GeoBIM, LIM and SeismicBIM, representing at the same time their natural evolution for the management of prevention and reconstruction connected to natural disasters. The application of the procedure is described on the case study of a building aggregate of Grisciano, a borough of the Municipality of Accumoli, describing the steps that constitute the part of the design/reconstruction of the BIM procedure, consisting of: cognitive framework, distinguished in ‘direct knowledge’ and ‘deferred knowledge’; processing of the data collected; framework of the ARIM procedure, which provides a sub-articulation in data acquisition and their synthesis, finally the construction of the synthetic and informed 3D model. …”
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A visit to Lahore: experiencing residential care in another culture by Andrew Hosie

“…In particular, many children are at risk of being orphaned due to natural disasters or poor life expectancy. As such, residential care is a necessity in Pakistan. …”

Special Issue in Artificial Intelligence by Dora Maria Ballesteros

“…The topics of the articles in this special issue include deep learning applied to medicine [1, 3], support vector machine applied to ecosystems [2], human-robot interaction [4], clustering in the identification of anomalous patterns in communication networks [5], expert systems for the simulation of natural disaster scenarios [6], real-time algorithms of artificial intelligence [7] and big data analytics for natural disasters [8]. …”
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On the research for big data uses for public good purposes by Adeline Decuyper

“…In this article, we review some of the advances made in this field, and present opportunities offered by big data for public good, in fields such as help for humanitarian action or natural disasters response, indicating that in some cases, data may be used to save lives. …”
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The Migration Patterns and Identity of the Okun-Yoruba People of Central Nigeria by Ilesanmi Akanmidu Paul

“…The former include nat­ural disasters such as ecological change and draught, while the latter can be in­stigated by wars and search for better fortunes. …”
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New frontiers of temporary buildings. Passive housing modules by Federica Ribera, Rossella Del Regno, Pasquale Cucco

“…The purpose of this paper is to examine the characteristics of temporary buildings created to flexibly respond to the needs and necessities of people involved in natural disasters or in hardship cases. Architecture technology allows an industrialized modular low-cost building system, in case of an emergency – the ease and speed of the assembling process, flexibility, and immediate use – and the conditions of temporality: to create a light, removable, transportable, transformable, reusable and, at the same time, durable and adaptable to the territory’s climate and morphology building. …”
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Perancangan Aplikasi Tanggap Api Berbasis Android Menggunakan Metode Design Sprint by Agus Tedyyana, Muhammad Fauzi, Depandi Enda, Fajar Ratnawati, Elgamar Syam

“…Throughout 2019, at least 209 forest and land fire disasters occurred with a burned area of around 2146,2 Ha. …”
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Trends in the Occurrence of Compound Extremes of Temperature and Precipitation in Côte d’Ivoire by Elisée Yapo Akobé, Adama Diawara, Fidèle Yoroba, Benjamin K. Kouassi, Assi Louis Martial Yapo, Ibrahima Diba, Kouakou Kouadio, Dro T. Tiémoko, Dianikoura Ibrahim Koné, Arona Diedhiou

“…This work could provide decision support for political decision-makers in formulating future public policies for managing agricultural production, food security, and natural disasters.…”
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The Impact of Lockdown on Air Quality in Pakistan during the COVID-19 Pandemic Inferred from the Multi-sensor Remote Sensed Data by Rehana Khan, Kanike Raghavendra Kumar, Tianliang Zhao

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Cartographie interactive historique pour informer sur les risques : application avec le DICRIM de la Ville de Saint-Étienne by Élisabeth Chesneau, Adeline Clément, Éric Lieghio

“…In 2011, the City of Saint-Étienne, the Institute of Major Risks of Grenoble (IRMa) and the ISTHME research laboratory of the University of Saint-Étienne (UMR EVS) developed an interactive map about the historical disasters in Saint-Étienne. Within a research project, we carry out a survey to assess how the map is perceived and understood. …”
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Calvyn oor natuurrampe by P. C. Potgieter

“… Severe natural disasters such as the tsunami off Indonesia in 2004 often lead to a demand for theological enlightenment. …”
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