Disaster Relief: Lulu Liu

Disaster Relief Lulu Liu [email protected]

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What is the disaster? • Back up plan, • Anti-virus software, • Firewall,

What’s the disaster?

Abnormal or infrequent hazard events causing damage, disruption, casualties, death and other public health impacts, often affected communities unable to function normally without external assistance.

floods, drought, cyclones/hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunami, and landslides, …

war, armed conflict, technological and radiological accidents, toxic spills, structural failures, terrorism and bioterrorism.

Complex emergencies

-- civil disorder and -- the breakdown of governance and social support structures

A metaphor

• Documents v.s. Disaster Preparedness • Recover v.s. Disaster Relief • Anti-virus software/ Firewall v.s. Disaster Preparedness

My Interest & LOC

• Education • Curriculum database for disaster preparedness and relief. • More info : www.ForeverEden.org

• More research on Standards for PBL • ForeverEden.org • Promotional Materials

Actions have been done

If you can’t view the video below, please click the YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZxMVfT3mps

One minute Promotional Video

• Poster

Promotional Materials Poster

About The website

The http://ForeverEden.org • It’s an online collaborate educational website • For educators sharing the disaster related curricular • Disaster Preparedness: curricular • Disaster relief: counseling

Resources

• Natural Disaster Deference Database http://ndrd.gsfc.nasa.gov • Special Site on Development Research Center of the State Council http://www.drcnet.com.cn/DRCNet.Cha =4024 • Red Cross Disaster Relief for Education http:// www.redcross.org/services/disaster/ed / • The Disaster Database Project http:// learning.richmond.edu/disaster/index.

• Dealing with Disasters http:// www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resource /

Resources

• Asian Disaster Reduction Center http://www.adrc.or.jp/index.php • Sentinel-Asia Project – Disaster Management Support System http:// arrs.adrc.or.jp/adrc/MyMap/adrc/index =yes&USERPROFILEKEY =1132191860541&ACTIONKEY= RefreshAction&MAPDIR =401&lang=en • Emergency Events Database http:// www.emdat.be/Database/terms.html • Friendship Site and Assistantship http:// www.inquiry.uiuc.edu/index.php

What ICS students can do for Disaster Relief?

What ICS students can do for Disaster Relief?

• Mathematic measurement for: – – – –

Risk Vulnerability Hazards Culture

What ICS students can do for Disaster Relief?

Communication Collaboration Cooperation Marshall_McLuhan

• GIS • Communication Network: Learning from the past

Lots to do

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Research Website updates Register an Organization Keep Blogging Take action Develop the network: Fund raising Research team Produce the Video series; International Conference

Know ourselves: human and human society Know the nature: the natural hazards. It will be a win-win situation: for both human, and the nature.

Mahalo!

Q&A

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