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Zhibin Huang, Chunxiang Cao, Min Xu and Xinwei Yang
Although numerous epidemiological studies have demonstrated a relationship between environmental factors and chronic diseases, there is a lack of comprehensive population health vulnerability assessment studies from the perspective of environmental expos...
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Gainbi Park
(1) Background: Hurricane events are expected to increase as a consequence of climate change, increasing their intensity and severity. Destructive hurricane activities pose the greatest threat to coastal communities along the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and Atla...
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Mahmoud Reza Delavar and Mansoureh Sadrykia
Earthquake is one of the natural disasters which threaten many lives every year. It is impossible to prevent earthquakes from occurring; however, it is possible to predict the building damage, human and property losses in advance to mitigate the adverse ...
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Ana Carla dos Santos Gomes,Maria Helena Constantino Spyrides,Paulo Sérgio Lucio,Idemauro Antonio Rodrigues de Lara
The objective of this work was to verify the association between air pollutants and deaths of elderly people from acute myocardial infarction in the city of São Paulo by relative risk modelling. Taking into account the specific characteristics of the dat...
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Nurwatik Nurwatik, Jung-Hong Hong, Lalu Muhamad Jaelani, Hepi Hapsari Handayani, Agung Budi Cahyono and Mohammad Rohmaneo Darminto
This paper proposes to identify the variation of accessibility to healthcare facilities based on vulnerability assessments of floods by using open source data. The open source data comprises Open Street Map (OSM), world population, and statistical data. ...
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Farnaz Kamranzad, Hossein Memarian and Mehdi Zare
The megacity of Tehran, the capital of Iran, is subjected to a high earthquake risk. Located at the central part of the Alpine?Himalayan seismic belt, Tehran is surrounded by several active faults that show some M7+ historical earthquake records. The hig...
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Eun-Sung Chung, Kwangjae Won, Yeonjoo Kim and Hosun Lee
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Shyang-Woei Lin, Chia-Feng Yen, Chih-Hsin Chang, Li-Jin Wang and Hung-Ju Shih
In East Taiwan, coastal settlements are scattered and narrowly confined between the Coastal Mountain and the Pacific Ocean. These settlements are currently at risk as there is no room for retreat. Therefore, it is essential to conduct a comprehensive and...
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Souleymane Fall, Kapo Coulibaly, Joseph Quansah and Gamal El Afandi
Urban heat vulnerability varies within and across cities, necessitating detailed studies to understand diverse populations? specific vulnerabilities. This research assessed urban heat vulnerability at block group level in three Alabama cities: Birmingham...
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Roberta Paranunzio, Marco Guerrini, Edward Dwyer, Paul J. Alexander and Barry O?Dwyer
With increasing urban expansion and population growth, coastal urban areas will be increasingly affected by climate change impacts such as extreme storm events, sea level rise and coastal flooding. To address coastal inundation risk for impact studies, i...
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Tarik Bouramtane, Ilias Kacimi, Khalil Bouramtane, Maryam Aziz, Shiny Abraham, Khalid Omari, Vincent Valles, Marc Leblanc, Nadia Kassou, Omar El Beqqali, Tarik Bahaj, Moad Morarech, Suzanne Yameogo and Laurent Barbiero
Urban flooding is a complex natural hazard, driven by the interaction between several parameters related to urban development in a context of climate change, which makes it highly variable in space and time and challenging to predict. In this study, we a...
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Since the beginning of the 21st century, most of the forest fires that have occured in Spain have taken place in the northern region of Galicia. This area represents 5.8% of the Spanish territory, but compromises, in certain years, up to 50% of the total...
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Jaime de Diego, Antonio Rúa and Mercedes Fernández
Since the beginning of the 21st century, most of the forest fires that have occured in Spain have taken place in the northern region of Galicia. This area represents 5.8% of the Spanish territory, but compromises, in certain years, up to 50% of the total...
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Komali Kantamaneni, N.N.V. Sudha Rani, Louis Rice, Koyel Sur, Menaha Thayaparan, Udayangani Kulatunga, Rajshree Rege, Komali Yenneti and Luiza C. Campos
The establishment and alteration of any coastal feature is largely dependent upon complex hydrological and geomorphologic processes. Therefore, understanding hazard factors and threat risk level is crucial for mitigating risk in coastal zones. This study...
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Edoardo Fiorillo, Alfonso Crisci, Hassimou Issa, Giampiero Maracchi, Marco Morabito and Vieri Tarchiani
During the last two decades, the sub-Saharan region has experienced unusual floods that have differentially impacted the region. No official and precise data regarding flood damage and impacts on the population are available, and the magnitude of events ...
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Clémence Guillard-Gonçalves and José Luís Zêzere
In this work residents’ social vulnerability and buildings’ physical vulnerability of the Loures municipality (Portugal) were combined to locate the areas where the vulnerability is the highest, and to analyse the landslide risk. The social v...
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Anne-Catherine Chardon
ÍndiceIntroducciónVulnerabilidad, habitat, reasentamiento y desarrollo. Una visión sistémica integralEl reasentamiento en la prácticaEl reasentamiento. Praxis en manizalesPresentación del contexto de estudioDesde el habitat de origen?El barrio que habita...
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Charles Lan, Alec Wild, Ryan Paulik, Liam Wotherspoon and Conrad Zorn
This study investigates the direct and indirect impacts of extreme sea level (ESL) flooding on critical infrastructure. While methods to quantify the direct impacts of ESL flooding on coastal areas are well established, the indirect impacts that extend b...
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Jamie Hussain
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Within the vulnerable population of women are distinctive populations of women including Aboriginal women, immigrant women, women in poverty, and women with disabilities, who are uniquely vulnerable with respect to risk. Of the world?s population, 10% or...
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Heather E. Thompson, Lea Berrang-Ford and James D. Ford
In recent years it has become clear that climate change is an inevitable process. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the expectation is that climate change will have an especially negative impact, not only a result of projected warming and rainfall deficits, but als...
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