Journal of Emergency Management and Disaster Communications, Ahead of Print. This study looked into how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the determinants of part-time employment in the Philippines. Amartya Sen has mentioned that one disparity in a person’s function capability is the occurrence of disasters such as the pandemic. Evidently, employment across the globe has been greatly affected by the pandemic as mentioned in the literature. The effect of the pandemic has been evident in the Philippines due to the policies implemented by the government such as lockdowns and other protocols to c ..read more

Journal of Emergency Management and Disaster Communications, Ahead of Print. Global climate change-related disasters have dramatically escalated throughout the world. Among a range of unexpected calamities, hydrometeorological disasters have come to the fore. This is because, torrential rains, mass flooding events, cyclones, storms, landslides (wet), droughts, heat waves and cold waves are very predominant. In addition to that, global warming, wild/forest fires, and melting down of glacier/ice covers of polar and nearby regions are very serious. This is because community resilience and ecologi ..read more

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Journal of Emergency Management and Disaster Communications, Ahead of Print. This study examined the implementation of 911 emergency services text messaging in the city of Memphis, Tennessee for the period encompassing May 1, 2016 and February 28, 2022. Using ANOVA and an alpha value of 0.05, four statistically significant outcomes were shown regarding calls answered within 20[math]s ([math]; [math]; [math]), queued waiting time experienced by system users ([math]; [math]; [math]), ring seconds per call ([math]; [math]; [math]), and mean time regarding 911 call average time ([math]; [math]; [m ..read more

Journal of Emergency Management and Disaster Communications, Volume 04, Issue 02, Page 179-187, December 2023. Sexual violence is a continuum of actions that constitute a violation of consecrated Human Rights and that has consequences in the short, medium and long term. This issue is aggravated in situations of conflict, forced migration and natural disasters, which is why the UN has considered it one of the priorities to be primarily addressed in a crisis. In order to systematize the good practices for approaching survivors of sexual violence, the group of authors proposes the application of ..read more

Journal of Emergency Management and Disaster Communications, Volume 04, Issue 02, Page 153-177, December 2023. In this cross-sectional study, we assessed the self-efficacy of individuals for personal protective measures against the crime of robbery, kidnapping, defilement and rape to estimate the awareness-preparedness gap of the population as contribution to overall security and safety in Ghana. We relied on the Protection Motivation Theory (PMT). The intersection between social systems and technological interactions toward crime suppression and mitigation was analyzed using the Adaptive Stru ..read more

Journal of Emergency Management and Disaster Communications, Volume 04, Issue 02, Page 143-152, December 2023. Through the First National Comprehensive Risk Survey of Natural Disasters, the Three Data of Historical Disasters, Disaster Bearing Bodies and Disaster Reduction Capabilities of 31 provinces (cities, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) in China have been studied. Excluding regional factors, the statistical indicators of the Three Data and their functional relationship are studied by using Origin software. It is found that the three data do not ..read more

Journal of Emergency Management and Disaster Communications, Volume 04, Issue 02, Page 119-141, December 2023. Fire risk has become one of the most recurring and frequent disasters in the world. Fire disaster risk has put more burdens on the economic loss and social development of the people of Lusaka city in Zambia. Lusaka city has continuously suffered from fire cases that have claimed millions of Kwacha loss and life. It has been discovered that the incidence of fire is increasing very rapidly. The causes can be charcoal braziers, cigarette ends, lighted candles, illegal wiring, electrical ..read more

Journal of Emergency Management and Disaster Communications, Ahead of Print. In the humanitarian assistance sector, the primary objective of inter-organizational networks is to ensure that there are efficient and effective humanitarian response efforts that meet the needs of the affected population to the maximum extent possible (Drabek, 1987; Zhao et al., 2009). However, theoretical perspectives on humanitarian organizational networks and effective disaster response have remained relatively modest and confined to developing basic typologies of coordination arrangements and identifying th ..read more