Tagged: disasters

Proceed to your nearest (virtual) exit: gaming technology is teaching us how people respond to emergencies - Hot off the press

Guest Author • Jun 15, 2021 •

• augmented reality,
• disasters,
• pokemon,
• virtual reality

Ruggiero Lovreglio, Massey University   Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) aren’t just for gaming anymore, they’re also proving to be useful tools for disaster safety research. In fact, they could save lives. Around the world, natural and human-made disasters such as earthquakes, bushfires and terrorist attacks threaten substantial economic loss and human life. My research review looked … Read More

COVID-19 cost more in 2020 than the world’s combined natural disasters in any of the past 20 years - COVID-19

Guest Author • Apr 20, 2021 •

• COVID-19,
• disasters,
• New Zealand stories,
• Pandemic

Ilan Noy, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington and Nguyen Doan, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington What have we lost because of the pandemic? According to our calculations, a lot — and many of the worst hit countries and regions are far from world media attention. Typically, damage from any disaster is measured in separate … Read More

Floods leave a legacy of mental health problems — and disadvantaged people are often hardest hit - Guest Work

Guest Author • Mar 22, 2021 •

• disasters,
• floods,
• Mental health

Sabrina Pit, Western Sydney University Yet again, large swathes of New South Wales are underwater. A week of solid rain has led to floods in the Mid-North Coast, Sydney and the Central Coast, with several areas being evacuated as I write. As a resident of the NSW Far North Coast, which has had its share of devastating floods, many … Read More

Disaster recovery is local - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Nov 04, 2016 •

• Canterbury earthquake,
• community,
• disaster management,
• disaster recovery,
• disasters,
• earthquakes,
• hurricane

There are a lot of lessons from Hurricane Matthew that New Zealand might have found useful in the aftermath of the Canterbury earthquakes.  Vero de Rugy has a great summary of Virgil Storr’s work for the Mercatus Centre on hurricane recovery in New Orleans. Take a recent investigation by PBS’ “Frontline” and NPR into flood insurance and aid … Read More