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Natural calamity

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Natural calamity refers to significant adverse events resulting from natural processes of the Earth, such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and volcanic eruptions, which cause substantial damage to life, property, and the environment. These events often lead to humanitarian crises and require emergency response and recovery efforts.
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Natural calamity refers to significant adverse events resulting from natural processes of the Earth, such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and volcanic eruptions, which cause substantial damage to life, property, and the environment. These events often lead to humanitarian crises and require emergency response and recovery efforts.

Key research themes

1. How do socio-political and institutional factors shape the transformation of natural hazards into disasters and subsequent impacts?

This theme examines the extent to which natural calamities become disasters contingent on socio-political conditions, institutional preparedness, and human infrastructure. It investigates how vulnerability, governance, and state capacity condition both the occurrence and consequences of disasters, emphasizing that the term 'natural disaster' obscures human and institutional contributions to risk and impact.

Key finding: The study shows how in Greece, extreme weather events alone did not cause disasters; rather, deficiencies in meteorological infrastructure, urban expansion, and substandard constructions critically magnified disaster impacts.... Read more
Key finding: This research found only marginal effects of natural disasters on the onset of political instability when accounting for countries' pre-existing institutional resilience. It concludes that disasters act as catalysts for... Read more
Key finding: The report integrates economic analysis to demonstrate that market failures and deficiencies in government interventions significantly shape how natural hazards translate into disasters. It emphasizes that disaster prevention... Read more
Key finding: This paper critiques prevailing disaster research for its technocratic and natural-science focus and advocates for a critical approach that integrates political ecology and social vulnerability. It shows that disaster impacts... Read more
Key finding: By analyzing the Chennai floods and other Indian disasters, the paper argues that human factors such as rapid urbanization, poor land-use planning, and substandard infrastructure substantially increase disaster risk and... Read more

2. What are effective strategies and frameworks for mitigating natural disasters and enhancing disaster risk management?

This research theme explores methodologies, technological innovations, policy frameworks, and management approaches aimed at reducing disaster risks and minimizing their socio-economic impacts. It highlights multi-disciplinary strategies including early warning, infrastructure resilience, insurance, community engagement, and digital technologies as key components of comprehensive disaster risk reduction and management.

Key finding: The authors demonstrate that pre-emptive risk financing, improved planning, and integrating lessons from multiple scientific disciplines can ‘dull’ the humanitarian and economic impacts of natural disasters. They advocate for... Read more
Key finding: The study analyzes user preferences for disaster mitigation technologies, finding that an integrated use of IoT and cloud computing is favored by over 90% of surveyed users. It emphasizes expert system components such as... Read more
Key finding: This work synthesizes theoretical and practical approaches to hazard monitoring and mitigation, underscoring a twofold strategy: accurate scientific monitoring coupled with comprehensive social and institutional... Read more
Key finding: The paper argues for systematic integration of historical records into disaster research to enable long-term, comparative analyses of societal vulnerabilities and responses. It highlights how historical data allow testing... Read more
Key finding: By categorizing natural hazards into six types and outlining their origins, this entry identifies geophysical, hydrological, and climatological hazards as main disaster triggers. It details methodologies for disaster... Read more

3. How is climate change influencing the frequency, intensity, and distribution of natural disasters, and what adaptation measures are necessary?

This theme investigates scientific evidence linking anthropogenic climate change with alterations in the patterns of natural hazards—specifically, increased frequency and severity of heatwaves, precipitation extremes, storms, droughts, and associated disaster risks. It emphasizes the urgency of adaptation strategies and policies targeted at reducing vulnerability in a warming climate context.

Key finding: Utilizing modeling and climate projections, the paper forecasts a significant increase in frequency and intensity of heatwaves, floods, droughts, and tropical cyclones under continued greenhouse gas emissions. It concludes... Read more
Key finding: This legal and human rights-focused study highlights evolving international norms recognizing the impact of climate-induced disasters on human dignity and rights. It stresses the critical role of government responsibilities... Read more
Key finding: The study emphasizes the mental health impacts of disasters exacerbated by climatic changes and outlines effective community- and school-based interventions. It advocates for integrating behavioral health preparedness into... Read more
Key finding: Using the Fukushima 2011 disaster as a case study, the book argues that complex interdependencies and industrial technologies in a changing climate exacerbate disaster risks and uncertainties. It calls for improved risk... Read more

All papers in Natural calamity

The advanced technology Internet of Things (IoT) visualizes a worldwide, that is, internally connected, networks of smart physical entities. IoT is a promising technology used in several applications including disaster management. In... more
The importance of disaster management is evident by the increasing number of natural and manmade disasters such as Irma and Manchester attacks. The estimated cost of the recent Irma hurricane is believed to be more than 80 billion USD;... more
The advanced technology Internet of Things (IoT) visualizes a worldwide, that is, internally connected, networks of smart physical entities. IoT is a promising technology used in several applications including disaster management. In... more
The advanced technology Internet of Things (IoT) visualizes a worldwide, that is, internally connected, networks of smart physical entities. IoT is a promising technology used in several applications including disaster management. In... more
The importance of disaster management is evident by the increasing number of natural and manmade disasters such as Irma and Manchester attacks. The estimated cost of the recent Irma hurricane is believed to be more than 80 billion USD;... more
The advanced technology Internet of Things (IoT) visualizes a worldwide, that is, internally connected, networks of smart physical entities. IoT is a promising technology used in several applications including disaster management. In... more
This paper attempts to provide a minimal disaster management framework for the elderly who are living alone. Elderly people are generally vulnerable to hazards and emergency situations. The proposed framework aims at developing an IoT... more
"Doomsday" or "the End" is a favourite topic of Astrologers. In this article we analyse the factors leading up to the End of the Current Epoch and speculate on the circumstances leading to it. As part of this speculation we present a... more
This paper attempts to provide a minimal disaster management framework for the elderly who are living alone. Elderly people are generally vulnerable to hazards and emergency situations. The proposed framework aims at developing an IoT... more
Today, natural calamity and accidents are a big problem in the world as a consequence of the rise in reckless driving. Incidents are blamed for a significant amount of crashes, fire, derailment incidents every year. The study explores dif... more
Today, natural calamity and accidents are a big problem in the world as a consequence of the rise in reckless driving. Incidents are blamed for a significant amount of crashes, fire, derailment incidents every year. The study explores... more
Today, natural calamity and accidents are a big problem in the world as a consequence of the rise in reckless driving. Incidents are blamed for a significant amount of crashes, fire, derailment incidents every year. The study explores... more
The (IoT) is a narrative paradigm, which is contemplate to apply to a diversity of promising areas applications to access wireless communication system and artificial information technologies. Meanwhile, the emerging cellular network... more
Today, natural calamity and accidents are a big problem in the world as a consequence of the rise in reckless driving. Incidents are blamed for a significant amount of crashes, fire, derailment incidents every year. The study explores dif... more
Today, natural calamity and accidents are a big problem in the world as a consequence of the rise in reckless driving. Incidents are blamed for a significant amount of crashes, fire, derailment incidents every year. The study explores dif... more
Today, natural calamity and accidents are a big problem in the world as a consequence of the rise in reckless driving. Incidents are blamed for a significant amount of crashes, fire, derailment incidents every year. The study explores... more
This paper talks about the prediction of types of landslides. It employs Random Forest Classifier technique, the ensemble version of Decision Trees. The results of the experiment show that ensemble techniques provide a better result... more
"Doomsday" or "the End" is a favourite topic of Astrologers. In this article we analyse the factors leading up to the End of the Current Epoch and speculate on the circumstances leading to it. As part of this speculation we present a... more
Following is Adiyen's humble attempt to analyse past history of World Population and take a shot at when we are likely to exceed a population of 10 billion. Historically (based on Hindu beliefs) change of Eon or YUGAM has taken place when... more
The web is full of the content which is either in complete or semi unstructured form and retrieving the essential data out of this unstructured form is very difficult so the concept of the information extraction (IE) keeping in view the... more
ABSTRACT: The Back propagation Algorithm is a multilayered, feed forward neural network and is one of the most popular and efficient techniques used. This can be used for dataset classification with suitable combination of training,... more
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