Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response
Volume 5, Issue 3, October 2015
Research Article
2. Dealing with Emergencies: The Case of a Heavy Disruption of the Mexico City Metro System
Diego Padilla-Pérez, Jaime Santos-Reyes, Samuel Olmos-Peña
Pages: 142 - 151
The paper presents the results of a forecasting model associated with the affluence of users of the metro line-B of Mexico City's metro system. It also presents in a way a retrospective analysis of the metro incident that occurred on September, 2011, in the same metro line; the incident affected seven...
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3. Agent-Based Simulation of Fish Boats Evacuation
Hanping Zhao, Huiyan Ding, Han Wang
Pages: 152 - 160
Emergency management agencies will organize people to evacuee when disasters are forecasted. However, contradictions between individual behavior and group objective appear frequently during large-scale evacuations, the problem is obviously in the process of fisher boats evacuation. So, this paper set...
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4. Spatial Effect on Public Risk Perception of Natural Disaster: a Comparative Study in East Asia
Zhongyu He, Guofang Zhai
Pages: 161 - 168
This paper explores the effect of geographical location on public risk perception of natural disasters. By conducting an identical questionnaire survey across three East Asia countries (China, Japan and South Korea), the paper finds out that different country has its unique structure of risk perception....
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5. Crisis Communication about Nuclear Accidents with Psychological Approaches
Yanran Yang, Lina Jin, Jinbin Li, Chao Fang
Pages: 169 - 177
Different from other natural disasters and health emergencies, nuclear accident is a kind of special crisis of organizational crises, which tends to generate public and media interests and criticism more easily. In this paper, we reviewed literatures on risk and crisis communication and analyzed the...
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6. Evaluating the Three Methods of Goodness of Fit Test for Frequency Analysis
Xiankui Zeng, Dong Wang, Jichun Wu
Pages: 178 - 187
In hydrological statistics, the traditional assessment of goodness of fit test is interested in the testing precision to the sample generated from supposed PDF. However, the ability to reject the hypotheses when the supposed PDF is different from real PDF should be also emphasized. In addition, the sensitivity...
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7. A Study on Spatial-Temporal Rainstorm Risk at Civil Airports in China
Xiaomei Guo, Xiaobing Hu, Hang Li, Zhen Xu
Pages: 188 - 198
Based on daily precipitation data of 174 meteorological stations near civil airports in China, flight data over the same period (1994-2013) and other relevant airport data, this paper carries out a study on risk analysis of rainstorm at Chinese civil airports. We use the platform of ARCGIS, analyze the...