Preventing fire risk based on socioeconomic factors
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Page : 430 pages
File Size : 39,40 MB
Release : 2003
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Preventing Fire Risk Based on Socioeconomic Factors
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Page : pages
File Size : 40,9 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fire fighters
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Fire Hazards: Socio-economic and Regional Issues
Author : Jesús Rodrigo-Comino
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
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ISBN : 3031504461
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Socioeconomic Factors and the Incidence of Fire
Author : U. S. Fire Administration
Publisher : FEMA
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 34,81 MB
Release : 2013-02-23
Category : Social Science
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The intent of this working paper is to identify socioeconomic factors that influence the complex and varied relationships between buildings, humans, and the occurrence of residential fires.
Socioeconomic Factors and the Incidence of Fire
Author : National Fire Data Center (U.S.)
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 46,42 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fire
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The intent is to identify socioeconomic factors that influence the complex and varied relationships between buildings, humans, and the occurrence of residential fires.
The Correlation of Flammable Liquid Residential Fires with Socioeconomic and Climate Factors
Author : Stephen Garth Nagel
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Page : 156 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 2004
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Past research has revealed socioeconomic factors, such as income and education attainment, are correlated with safety, in general, and personal safety, specifically. Narrowing the focus of safety to fire, research has also revealed the incidence of residential fires is correlated with socioeconomic factors such as family income, education attainment, and parental presence. Those fire studies involving more specific types of fires, such fires involving consumer products, household appliances, and other gas or electric products used in and around the home, have not studied the socioeconomic factors that might have been involved in those fires. Studies conducted in the past have revealed the quantity of these types of fires, but those studies did not attempt to determine if there were socioeconomic or climate factors involved in the fires. This research addressed this gap in the literature. This research concluded education had a significant inverse correlation with residential structure fires at the state level involving flammable liquids where the ignition source was a water heater. This research also concluded there was a significant correlation between parental status and residential structure fires involving flammable liquids. This research concluded income did not have a significant correlation with any of the fire variables using partial correlation. This study further concluded climate exhibited a significant inverse correlation with residential structure fires involving flammable liquids were the ignition source was a water heater or gas water heater. Prior research predicted climate (HDD) would have a significant correlation to the rate of fire incidents. This research concluded the climate exhibited an inverse correlation with some of the rates of fire incidents. It is recommended that education and the inspection of flammable liquid fire hazards should be improved in the home in the states having a low HDD such as in the southern United States. Those states with a low HDD exhibited a significant correlation between climate and the incidence of some types of fires. It is also recommended that fire prevention education be focused on single parent families. These recommendations are with the understanding that improved education and inspections may reduce the incidence of fires.
An Analysis of Community Socioeconomic Factors and how They are Related to the High Frequency of Residential Cooking Fires in Nashville, North Carolina
Author : Timothy L. Pope
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Page : 34 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 2010
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Today's changing and distracted society is at a much higher risk of experiencing a residential cooking fire than ever before. America's fire service has been bound by tradition for many years and the traditional approach of most fire service leaders has been to focus the departmental efforts, resources and time on reacting when events like a residential coming fire occurs. If fire service leaders are truly committed to the safety of their citizens, they will take a proactive approach in preventing events from happening and in preventing harm within their community. The problem was that the Town of Nashville had suffered a large number of residential fires due to cooking. The research and data proved that the citizens living within the Nashville community were almost twice more likely of having a residential cooking fire than U.S. citizens living in other communities.
Health-Related Emergency Disaster Risk Management (Health-EDRM).
Author : Emily Ying Yang Chan
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Page : 294 pages
File Size : 28,93 MB
Release : 2020
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ISBN : 9783039363155
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Disasters such as earthquakes, cyclones, floods, heat waves, nuclear accidents, and large scale pollution incidents take lives and cause exceptionally large health problems. The majority of large-scale disasters affect the most vulnerable populations, which are often comprised of people of extreme ages, in remote living areas, with endemic poverty, and with low literacy. Health-related emergency disaster risk management (Health-EDRM) [1] refers to the systematic analysis and management of health risks surrounding emergencies and disasters; it plays an important role in reducing hazards and vulnerability along with extending preparedness, response, and recovery measures. This concept encompasses risk analyses and interventions, such as accessible early warning systems, timely deployment of relief workers, and the provision of suitable drugs and medical equipment, to decrease the impact of disaster on people before, during, and after disaster events. Disaster risk profiling and interventions can be at the personal/household, community, and system/political levels; they can be targeted at specific health risks including respiratory issues caused by indoor burning, re-emergence of infectious disease due to low vaccination coverage, and gastrointestinal problems resulting from unregulated waste management. Unfortunately, there has been a major gap in the scientific literature regarding Health-EDRM. The aim of this Special Issue of IJERPH was to present papers describing/reporting the latest disaster and health risk analyses, as well as interventions for health-related disaster risk management, in an effort to address this gap and facilitate major global policies and initiatives for disaster risk reduction.
Wildfire Hazards, Risks, and Disasters
Author : Douglas Paton
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 32,42 MB
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 0124096018
Book Description
More than 90% of wildfires are caused by human activity, but other causes include lighting, drought, wind and changing weather conditions, underground coal fires, and even volcanic activity. Wildfire Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, one of nine volumes in the Elsevier Hazards and Disasters series, provides a close and detailed examination of wildfires and measures for more thorough and accurate monitoring, prediction, preparedness, and prevention. It takes a geo-scientific and environmental approach to the topic while also discussing the impacts of human-induced causes such as deforestation, debris burning and arson—underscoring the multi-disciplinary nature of the topic. It presents several international case studies that discuss the historical, social, cultural and ecological aspects of wildfire risk management in countries with a long history of dealing with this hazard (e.g., USA, Australia) and in countries (e.g., Taiwan) where wildfire hazards represent a new and growing threat to the social and ecological landscape. Puts the contributions of environmental scientists, social scientists, climatologists, and geoscientists at your fingertips Arms you with the latest research on causality, social and societal impacts, economic impacts, and the multi-dimensional nature of wildfire mitigation, preparedness, and recovery Features a broad range of tables, figures, diagrams, illustrations, and photographs to aid in the retention of key concepts Discusses steps for prevention and mitigation of wildfires, one of the most expensive and complex geo-hazards in the world.
Economic Welfare of Firefighting Service in Detroit
Author : Matthias H. Jung
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Page : 113 pages
File Size : 22,68 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Basic needs
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Chapter 1 is concerned with the effect of public fire service quality on individual utility. I develop a theoretical model to account for fire risk as a function of socio-economic, housing, and spatial factors. I review relevant literature on certain inherent public fire service issues regarding technology and cost structure before I briefly discuss the importance of public fire service with regard to overall social welfare. Finally, I employ equity mapping in a case study to assess the effect of a budget cut on equity of fire service allocation in Detroit. Chapter 2 examines whether socio-economic factors, various aspects of housing, and spatial features can explain differences in building fire risk across Detroit. Using a complete Detroit fire incidents data set for the years 2008-2012, matched by census tract to American Community Survey (ACS) data for the same period, I employ kernel density mapping and spatial regression techniques to address the research question. Estimations suggest a positive correlation between poverty and fire risk, especially with regard to intentional building fires. In the case of unintentional building fires, no such conclusion can be drawn easily. I find evidence for fire clustering and spillover effects. Chapter 3 approaches the question of optimal fire station siting in Detroit from a welfare economics viewpoint. Therefore, I assess the effects of a decrease in public budget in 2012 on distributional equity. First, regression analysis is used to determine the effect on response time as an indicator of fire service quality. Second, I use various statistical measures to evaluate intra-city service distribution with respect to equality. Third, I develop a fire risk index and link it to service quality to determine need satisfaction. I find ambiguous effects on distributional equality, while there is strong evidence of the change in budget having a negative effect on equity interpreted as need.
