It is too late to save the Gulf from what has already transpired, but not too late for Obama to wake up to find the courageous, aggressive, and tough leadership he needs to do the job this disaster demands.
Performing search and rescue tasks in the ruins after disasters demand rescue robots with slender and compliant structure to accommodate the complicated configurations under debris.
We consider a stochastic pre-disaster relief network design problem, which mainly determines the capacities and locations of the response facilities and their inventory levels of the relief supplies in the presence of uncertainty in post-disaster demands and transportation network conditions.
In a week heralding news of melting Arctic methane beds, and a year of record global temperatures and billion-dollar weather-related disasters, demanding Keystone's approval is a stunning exercise in denial.
After a catastrophic earthquake in a developing country, the conventional network analysis methods may not be employed because first, the post disaster travel demand can be fundamentally altered from the usual daily travel demand and, perhaps, the forecast of the trip demand in the highly uncertain condition seems impossible.
It is not as if President Obama had specific statutory authority on June 16 to compel BP to set aside $20 billion to cover the costs of the Gulf oil disaster — his demand was backed by the weight of his office and the direness of the emergency.
Toshiba has been looking to develop its overseas nuclear business after the 2011 Fukushima disaster dampened demand in Japan for atomic power.
Prime Minister Oddsson called the environmentalists "pessimists" forever predicting disaster and demanding new studies.
They led Medellín to the brink of disaster, then demanded it change.
If the plot was a simple enough equation, adding one vain, selfish act to another until they collectively resulted in disaster, the demands Flaubert placed on his execution of the narrative were severe and absolute.
