ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2017
Improved Methods for Fire Risk Assessment in Low-Income and Informal Settlements.
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- An Assessment of the Fire Safety Standards in Iranian Homes and Equipment As They Relate to Fire Accidents.Annals of burns and fire disasters · 2024Article
- Fire Risk Assessments of Informal Settlements Based on Fire Risk Index and Bayesian Network.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- A system dynamics approach for understanding community resilience to disaster risk.Jamba (Potchefstroom, South Africa) · 2021Review
- Social Determinants Associated with Pediatric Burn Injury: A Population-Based, Case-Control Study.Journal of burn care & research : official publication of the American Burn Association · 2020Article
- Flood survivors' perspectives on vulnerability reduction to floods in Mbire district, Zimbabwe.Jamba (Potchefstroom, South Africa) · 2020Article
- A spectrum of methods for a spectrum of risk: Generating evidence to understand and reduce urban risk in sub-Saharan Africa.Area (Oxford, England) · 2019Article
- Poverty, population density, and the epidemiology of burns in young children from Mexico treated at a U.S. pediatric burn facility.Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries · 2018Article
- Summary of Workshop Large Outdoor Fires and the Built Environment.Fire safety journal · 2018Article
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Abstract
Fires cause over 300,000 deaths annually worldwide and leave millions more with permanent injuries: some 95% of these deaths are in low- and middle-income countries. Burn injury risk is strongly associated with low-income and informal (or slum) settlements, which are growing rapidly in an urbanising world. Fire policy and mitigation strategies in poorer countries are constrained by inadequate data on incidence, impacts, and causes, which is mainly due to a lack of capacity and resources for data collection, analysis, and modelling. As a first step towards overcoming such challenges, this project reviewed the literature on the subject to assess the potential of a range of methods and tools for identifying, assessing, and addressing fire risk in low-income and informal settlements; the process was supported by an expert workshop at University College London in May 2016. We suggest that community-based risk and vulnerability assessment methods, which are widely used in disaster risk reduction, could be adapted to urban fire risk assessment, and could be enhanced by advances in crowdsourcing and citizen science for geospatial data creation and collection. To assist urban planners, emergency managers, and community organisations who are working in resource-constrained settings to identify and assess relevant fire risk factors, we also suggest an improved analytical framework based on the Haddon Matrix.
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