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NGOs and humanitarian aid
RADOSTOVÁ, Kateřina
This bachelor thesis aims to describe the activities of non-governmental organisations and the provision of humanitarian aid and subsequently to find out what knowledge the citizens of the South Bohemian Region possess within these topics. The theoretical section contains individual information that defines specifically the content of non-governmental organisations, as well as humanitarian aid. The bachelor thesis selects and defines organizations that operate on the territory of the South Bohemian Region, including basic information on the provision of assistance to affected residents. An integrated rescue system is also mentioned in this work, which corresponds with the theme of this bachelor thesis through its activities. The research part is conducted by guided interviews and questionnaire surveys dealing with two research issues. To achieve the first goal and answer the research question "What humanitarian aid do non-governmental organisations provide?" managed interview questions have been set up that target specific non-governmental organisations. The questionnaire focused on the second question of the research section "What is the knowledge of the population of the South Bohemia Region about the provision of humanitarian aid?" In controlled interviews, I was given information such as ways of presenting the public, the most frequent target group or how many voluntary donors the organization has. Their most frequent activities include financial and manual assistance. Responses obtained in the research section showed that residents in the South Bohemia Region have at least a basic overview of the provision of humanitarian aid and non-governmental organisations. Respondents knew who could become a member of a non-governmental organisation and what are the examples of humanitarian aid.
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Actuarial and Exposure-based Models for Hail Peril
Drobuliak, Matúš ; Pešta, Michal (advisor) ; Hlubinka, Daniel (referee)
Title: Actuarial and Exposure-based Models for Hail Peril Author: Bc. Matúš Drobuliak Department: Department of Probability and Mathematical Statistics Supervisor: RNDr. Michal Pešta, Ph.D., Department of Probability and Mathe- matical Statistics Abstract: This thesis covers an introduction to catastrophe modelling and focuses on statistical methods for extreme events. This includes methods of estimating parameters of claim distribution with a focus on probability weighted moments estimation technique. Furthermore, times series modelling, skew t-distribution, and two model clustering techniques are examined as well. This is later utilised in the practical application part of this thesis, which uses real data provided by an insurance company operating in the Czech Republic. Probability distribution fitting of large claims caused by hailstorms and Monte Carlo simulation of future losses are demonstrated later. Keywords: Catastrophe modelling, Hail peril, Probability weighted moments, Extreme events, ARMA-GARCH, Monte Carlo simulation iii
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Safety and crisis management in the town of Český Krumlov
BŘEZINA, Čestmír
In the past decades, not only natural disasters, but also other extreme events have threatened the mankind and people have to be ready to solve these events. Extreme events can be caused by the unpredictable weather such as floods and freshets, epidemics, bulk infections of animals, fires, explosions, toxic substance release into the air, collective accidents in the traffic, interruption of supply of electric power, water, gas, heating, collapse of telecommunication and information net, radiation emergency, terrorist attacks etc. It is not possible to underestimate extreme events and it is necessary to thoroughly prepare on the possibility of their occurence and on precautions in connection with their removal, eventually with the elimination of their consequences. Regarding to the fact, that the inhabitans of the town of Český Krumlov are endangered by potential extreme events all the time, in the past decades these have been mainly floods and other natural disasters, that is why the organs of crisis task force and the bodies of IRS (Integrated Rescue Service) have to be maximally prepared to solve such events. Nevertheless the primary aim is the protection of people {--} the protection of their lives, health, properties, but also the protection of infrastructure and environment is important. That all is also related with maximal readiness and awareness of the population of potential risks of occurence of extreme events. Only in this case, the people would be able to behave correctly in the given situations and therefore intensify their security. On the base of results of the quantitative research and the subject analysis, it has been found out, that inhabitans of the town of Český Krumlov are not prepared on eventual occurence of extreme events at all and they are not offered any possibilities how to get the necessary information. That is why I have suggested arrangements how to eliminate these problems, in general how to improve the communication and the standart of providing services to the inhabitants concerning the field of eventual occurence of extreme events. These arrangements can serve for bodies of crisis task force managment so that they could be inspired in how to intesify the quality of security and how to better the crisis mamagement of the town of Český Krumlov.
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