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1 Ooo THE INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SOCIETY Newsletter – Scientific Articles - ISSUE 2– March 2016 ISSN 2033-1614 A TIEMS Special Issue Covering the DRIVER EU Project D R I V E R EU P R O J E C T Articles in this issue The International Emergency Management Society This issue is dedicated to the Newsletter - Scientific Articles Part DRIVER EU Project http://driver-project.eu/ TIEMS network constitutes a large international multidisciplinary group of experts, with different educational backgrounds and various experiences. Their knowledge and experience are important to share with other experts worldwide. TIEMS has therefore decided to issue DRIVER – Innovation in this new part of TIEMS newsletter, which we call TIEMS Newsletter - Crisis Management Scientific Articles. We have received nine scientific articles for Unmanned Airborne Rescue publication in this second issue, which we nominate issue no 2. Delivering a Common Depending on the response, in form of feed-back and new scientific Operational Picture to articles to be published later, we will consider continue with issuing the Crisis Management scientific articles part of the newsletter together with the regular Professionals newsletter, or we may have to have a less frequent publication of this Message Mapping Communications in part. Time will show, but please, give us feed-back and send us new Crisis Management articles for publication. Optimal Geospatial Joseph Pollack Allocation of Volunteers TIEMS Newsletter Editor for Crisis Management Interaction with DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed herein are solely those of TIEMS and those responsible for the Citizens in Crisis different articles and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Law and Justice. It remains for the Situations Collaborate, Share and National Courts and ultimately the European Court of Justice to interpret the Law. Under no Exchange: The DRIVER circumstances will TIEMS be liable for any direct or indirect damages arising in connection with the Community Platform use of this newsletter. I4CM Workshops 2 Table of Contents The International Emergency Management Society ....................................... 1 Message from TIEMS President ................................................................ 3 DRIVER – Innovation in Crisis Management .................................................. 4 Unmanned Airborne Rescue - Experiment 40 .............................................. 13 Delivering a Common Operational Picture to Crisis Management Professionals - Experiment 41 .................................................................................. 26 Message Mapping - Experiment 35.1 ........................................................ 33 Communications in Crisis Management - Experiment 35.2 .............................. 36 Optimal Geospatial Allocation of Volunteers for Crisis Management - Experiment 36.2 .............................................................................................. 41 Interaction with Citizens in Crisis Situations - Experiment 42 .......................... 53 Collaborate, Share and Exchange: The DRIVER Community Platform ................. 63 I4CM Workshops ................................................................................ 65 Next TIEMS Scientific Articles Newsletter ................................................. 69 3 Message from TIEMS President TIEMS global network of chapters and We reach today approx. 100 000 experts members worldwide, constitutes a large worldwide with the distribution, and we international multidisciplinary group of hope this could lead to improved contacts experts, with different educational and exchange of expertise between backgrounds and various experiences in the worldwide experts and lead to more field of emergency management and cooperation and new and excellent ideas to disaster response. They represent a unique be explored in the emergency management source of expertise and ideas, which are and disaster response field, important assets for research and technology development activities. Depending on the response and feed-back of this second issue, where we dedicate However, dissemination and publication of the Newsletter fully to one EU project, we the results of their research is as plan to invite other EU Projects to use this important as the research itself. It is opportunity in later issues for publishing important to share the results and articles about their projects and the conclusions of their work with other results. experts in the emergency management and disaster response community. We need to The articles are reviewed only by the learn from each other and share editor, but depending on the response, we experiences to be able to progress with will consider to establish a review panel excellence in global emergency management and have a peer review of the articles in and disaster response. the future. This is the second issue of TIEMS Our readers decide the future of this Newsletter - Scientific Articles Issue 2 as TIEMS Newsletter - Scientific Articles an addition to the regular TIEMS Issue, so please, send us feedback and Newsletter. constructive critics and also articles for publication. This second issue is dedicated to the EU Project DRIVER, and this issue comprises nine articles in total, some descriptive and some scientific ones, all describing different issues about the DRIVER projects and the results so far. I hope this newsletter is welcomed by the emergency management and disaster response community, to learn more about the DRIVER project and the results of the project. Likewise, it is an additional and Oslo 31st March 2016 hopefully an interesting publication channel K. Harald Drager for the DRIVER project to reach further TIEMS President out to the global emergency and disaster management community. The International Emergency Management Society (www.tiems.org) Rue Des Deux Eglises 39, B - 1000 Brussels, Belgium, Tel: +32 2 286 80 38, Fax: +32 2 286 80 39 E-mail: [email protected], 4 DRIVER – Innovation in Crisis Management Abstract There are many types of disasters, both man-made and natural, that crisis management (CM) professionals have to deal with today. Some 23,000 lives were lost worldwide in natural disasters during 2015; weather-related disasters accounted for 94% of incidents that resulted in insurance claims during the same period. One of the major European projects currently looking at innovation within crisis management is DRIVER (Driving Innovation in Crisis Management for European Resilience), a large-scale, demonstration project funded by the EU under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Although the scope of the DRIVER project covers many types of disasters, the focus of this article is on weather-related ones to give a demonstration of what will be achieved during the life of the project. The project is focussed on three key areas: improving civil society resilience so that local communities are better prepared to respond to, and recover from, a disaster; strengthening first responders in terms of the crisis management solutions they have available to them; training and learning solutions designed to enhance the capacities and capabilities of trainers and human resources professionals dealing with those involved in crisis management. DRIVER is a unique multi-national project, working across many sectors, looking to find ways to implement a new approach to improving crisis management in Europe. It is achieving this by establishing a distributed European test-bed for CM capability development with proven evaluation methodologies. DRIVER aims to assess and validate innovative, yet practical, crisis management solutions that work, that have been tried and tested, and above all are used for, and by, emergency practitioners. Severe weather natural disasters dominate crisis management issues in 2015 For millions of Europeans, the threats caused by climate change may seem to happen elsewhere in the world: rising sea levels in south Asia, crop failures in Africa, huge storms in the tropics, drought in the developing world. But the reality is that Europeans are already facing more and more indications of climate change themselves as well, including heavy rainfall resulting in widespread flooding, and heat waves which contribute towards a growing number of forest fires. When a natural or man-made disaster does strike, saving lives is the priority and speed of response is crucial. The Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC), operating within the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO), was set up to support a coordinated and quicker response to disasters. Providing 24/7 support both inside and outside of Europe and with the capacity to deal with multiple, simultaneous emergencies in different time zones, the ERCC coordinates resources from the countries participating in the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism. In fact, since its launch in 2001, the EU Civil Protection Mechanism has monitored over 300 disasters and has received more than 200 requests for assistance. It intervened in some of the most devastating disasters the world has faced, including the floods in Serbia and Bosnia and 5 Herzegovina (2014), the Ebola outbreak in West Africa (2014) and the earthquake in Nepal (2015). [1] The impact on life was extremely significant in 2015 with a total of 23,000 people known to have been killed by natural disasters around the world, many in the Nepal earthquake in April. This total compared with 7,700