Technology and Disaster Risk Reduction

This set explores the role of various technologies, networks, and data collection methods in managing and responding to natural disasters and hazards.

Public Safety Networks

Networks including cellular, wireless, satellite, and existing analog television spectrum used for effective emergency response during accidents and natural disasters.

Internet

A technology used by communities during an emergency to coordinate recovery efforts.

Disaster Management Grounds

Open areas for integrating technology including forecasting, predictions, monitoring, risk assessment, and damage analysis.

Natural Phenomena

Events such as hurricanes, wildfires, tsunamis, and landslides that are managed using satellite images, aerial photographs, and on-the-ground inspections.

Integrated Approach

A strategy for addressing the problems of natural disasters that has undergone significant changes due to technological progress over the past years.

Hazard Mechanisms

The processes of atmospherical, geological, hydrological, and biological origins that technology helps to understand and analyze.

Forecasting and Predictions

Specific applications of technology used to monitor and respond to natural phenomena before or as they occur.