Crisis interpreting and Deaf community understanding during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from a South Korea-based survey [0.03%]
韩国聋人社区新冠肺炎疫情应急口译调查报告
Charmhun Jo
Charmhun Jo
This study explores the South Korean Deaf community's response to sign language interpreting during the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) health crisis, focusing on individual factors affecting the signers' comprehension. The data were co...
Public discourse narratives: from 'Secret Aid Worker' discontent to shifting power in humanitarian systems [0.03%]
公众话语叙述：从“秘密援助工作者”的不满到人道主义体系中的权力转移
Hannah Strohmeier,Unni Karunakara,Catherine Panter-Brick
Hannah Strohmeier
Public discourse is rich in meaning, reflecting consensus, dissent, and change. Yet, very little public discourse on the humanitarian sector has been authored by aid workers themselves. We conducted a thematic analysis of the 'Secret Aid Wo...
Disaster preparedness among Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi American communities [0.03%]
亚裔、太平洋岛民和印巴移民社区的灾难预防措施
Smitha Rao,Joonmo Kang,Joyce Y Lee et al.
Smitha Rao et al.
Disaster experiences and explorations of preparedness among Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi Americans (APIDA) in the United States are often overlooked owing to their relatively smaller population share. APIDA are not homogenous, and thei...
Multi-risk instruments for emergency response: a multi-hazard and multi-risk assessment of the European Union's Solidarity and Emergency Aid Reserve [0.03%]
欧盟团结和紧急援助储备的多风险工具：欧洲联盟多灾种和多风险评估
Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler,Robert Šakić Trogrlić,Karina Reiter
Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler
Natural hazard-related disasters are on the rise and have significant impacts on the public and private sector. Different mechanisms and instruments exist on the pan-European level to deal with them, including the European Union Solidarity ...
Measuring community disaster resilience for sustainable climate change adaptation: Lessons from time-series findings in rural Cambodia [0.03%]
面向可持续气候变化适应的社区灾害抗逆力评估：来自柬埔寨农村的系列调研结果启示
Yunjeong Yang,Adriana Keating,Chantra Sourn
Yunjeong Yang
Donor-funded climate and disaster resilience programmes and projects aim to help build the capacities and resilience of communities. Measuring resilience is critical, therefore, in providing feedback, evidence, and accountability. This pape...
Local knowledge as the basis of disaster management and humanitarian assistance [0.03%]
基于本土知识的灾害管理与人道主义救助
Miwa Hirono,Muhammad Riza Nurdin
Miwa Hirono
Recent policy discourse on the localisation of disaster management and humanitarian assistance lacks attention to the culture, history, and traditions of the Global South. This special issue of Disasters argues that it is imperative to reco...
Diasporas as a linchpin in local and international humanitarian action: a case study of the Chinese in Aceh following the 2004 tsunami [0.03%]
华裔社团在亚齐海啸灾后人道主义救援中的作用：一个案例研究
Miwa Hirono
Miwa Hirono
Chinese humanitarian actors have worked frequently with the Chinese diaspora in disaster-affected areas, but little, if any, research has been conducted into the important role of the diaspora in disaster response and humanitarian assistanc...
Emergency communication networks on Twitter during Hurricane Irma: information flow, influential actors, and top messages [0.03%]
飓风厄玛期间推特上的应急通讯网络：信息流向、影响人物和热门消息
Qian Hu,Seongho An,Naim Kapucu et al.
Qian Hu et al.
This study combined network analysis with message-level content analysis to investigate patterns of information flow and to examine messages widely distributed on social media during Hurricane Irma of 2017. The results show that while organ...
Caroline Reeves
Caroline Reeves
Breakthroughs in international biomedical science circa 1900 meant that plague could be contained through strict quarantine regulations. These measures were successfully deployed with help from local governments during outbreaks of pneumoni...
Enmity then empathy: How militarisation facilitated collaborative but exclusive exchange in Sierra Leone's Ebola response [0.03%]
从敌视到同理心：军事化如何促进塞拉利昂埃博拉疫情应对中的协作性但排外性的交流互动
Samuel T Boland,Susannah H Mayhew,Hana Rohan et al.
Samuel T Boland et al.
In the autumn of 2014, with the 2013-16 West Africa Ebola epidemic spiralling out of control, the United Kingdom announced a bespoke military mission to support-and in some ways lead-numerous Ebola response functions in Sierra Leone. This s...