Improving the social performance of flash flood early warnings using mobile services

International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 57-72

  Cumiskey, Lydia ^a   Werner, Micha ^a,b   Meije, Karen ^a,c   Fakhruddin, S H M ^d,e   Hassan, Ahmadul ^f  

^a DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^c GERMAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^e Regional Integrated Multi Hazard Early Warning System (RIMES)   (Thailand)

^f Centre for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS)   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Disaster preparedness; Early warning; Flash flood; Interactive voice response; Mobile services; Social performance

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; FLASH FLOOD; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL NETWORK;

BANGLADESH; SUNAMGANJ; SYLHET;

EID: 84928798537     PISSN: 17595908     EISSN: 17595916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJDRBE-08-2014-0062     Document Type: Article

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