The developed index system and assessment method constitute a relatively complete and rigorous framework for disaster damage assessment that can take full advantage of various sources of data.
This is a preliminary data-gathering project that presents interesting ideas that should be further evaluated in a more rigorous study, ideally convening disaster communications experts from a variety of organizations.
But conducting a rigorous scientific study in a disaster zone has its own drawbacks, he acknowledges.
Since that disaster, the agency has emphasized rigorous training and drills among its employees on how to quickly and effectively destroy and dispose of important documents in emergencies.
The delay in assistance along with a lack of rigorous inquiry into the magnitude of the environmental disaster unleashed that day is all the more disturbing, they say, as the country faces a future in which such disasters could happen again.
The author shows the relevance of scientific and rigorous analytic models for policy and decision making in disaster risk prevention and reduction.
This would enable and enhance rigorous research of previously understudied issues that relate to health, disaster risk, and resilience-building provided that research uses a holistic and truly multidisciplinary approach.
Moreover, the report indicates that although the DOI has instituted more rigorous requirements for companies' oil-spill response plans since the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the department has not documented a consistent procedure for evaluating these plans and ensuring that companies can actually carry them out.
The significance of the human element, particularly as it relates to plant management and rigorous high-level regulatory decision making, was borne out again by the Chernobyl disaster of 1986.
The disaster led to Moelwyn Hughes's official report, which recommended more rigorous control of crowd sizes.
