The cultural, social, and mental strengths of these women should be explored for disaster interventions.
The interest of this study in the evaluation of disaster interventions from a long-term perspective, however, stimulated the design of an approach that reveals several relevant aspects for future disaster risk management and evaluation of measures.
Two of the disaster intervention models for women survivors that were established in Gujarat after the earthquake and riots are outlined below.
Upon arrival in Germany, psychological care continued directly at airports of arrival for those being evacuated by disaster intervention teams and emergency pastors, coordinated by NOAH (Nachsorge, Opfer- und Angehörigenhilfe), a special division of the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Management (Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastophenhilfe).
Gender analysis and gender mainstreaming are crucial for developing gender-sensitive programing in disaster intervention.
Though there are considerable efforts made by the organizations in disaster intervention to engage women for disaster risk reduction, the strength of women is not seen as a piece of mainstream strategies where women leading disaster programing is a need.
In community-based disaster preparedness, the participation of women in the decision-making process is being encouraged in the guideline as government departments and other disaster intervention agencies should facilitate recovery for women from the grassroots level.
In activities such as planetary exploration, work in nuclear plants, or disaster intervention, the dynamics of the environment and the strong constraints on data transmissions call for advanced robot autonomy.
Disaster intervention and, specifically, disaster risk reduction are closely associated with the MDGs.
Next-generation applications for WSN include topics such as wireless building automation, distributed wireless health monitoring, industrial process monitoring and disaster intervention.
