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Hospitals are expected to be able to provide quality services during disasters. However, hospital capacity is limited and most hospital beds are almost always occupied. This study seeks to determine the feasibility of increasing hospital surge capacity

Operationalizing the concept of urban disaster resilience is a major milestone toward understanding both the characteristics that contribute to the resilience of cities to natural hazards and the interactions required to build and sustain it. While the

This book chapter targets how learning from large earthquakes in Japan and Iran over the last 100 years has developed. Normal distribution was found to be a good estimate of the magnitude distribution for earthquakes in both the countries.

In Japan

This book chapter brings to attention the dramatic impact of large earthquake disasters on local communities and society and highlights the necessity of building and enhancing the earthquake culture.

Iran was considered as a research case study and

Due to the importance of managing communicable diseases (CD) in disaster situations, the Center for Communicable Diseases Management (CCDM) within the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Islamic Republic of Iran, has taken measures to improve

This case study explores how Iran mandated annual school eartquake drills and raised public awareness within and beyond schools in order to reduce injury and death during earthquakes.

Throughout the world, countries have been developing and implementing Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) policies that address the three CSS pillars: safer learning facilities (pillar 1), school disaster management (pillar 2), and risk reduction and

This report reviews drought management across North Africa and the Near East. It includes Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, and Yemen