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Katarzyna Kocur-Bera and Szymon Czyza
Green energy production has become a common and recognized method of electricity generation. Giving up reliance on non-renewable energy sources is an important trend in the economies of many countries. The paper presents an analysis of the impact of indi...
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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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Souleymane Fall, Ehsan Abdalla, Joseph Quansah, Meghan J. Franklin and Timmera Whaley-Omidire
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed an unprecedented challenge to public health across the world and has further exposed health disparities and the vulnerability of marginal groups. Since the pandemic has exhibited marked regional differences, it is necessar...
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Leocadia Zhou, Dumisani Shoko Kori, Melusi Sibanda and Kenneth Nhundu
Evidence is unequivocal that rural and urban areas in South Africa are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change; however, impacts are felt disproportionately. This difference in vulnerability between rural and urban areas is presently unclear to guide...
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Juan Camilo Gómez Zapata, Raquel Zafrir, Massimiliano Pittore and Yvonne Merino
Efforts have been made in the past to enhance building exposure models on a regional scale with increasing spatial resolutions by integrating different data sources. This work follows a similar path and focuses on the downscaling of the existing SARA exp...
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Razieh Namdar, Ezatollah Karami and Marzieh Keshavarz
Climate is changing and mitigation of the corresponding impacts requires assessment of vulnerability and adaptation building. This issue is particularly important in Middle East and North Africa (MENA), which is recognized as one of the most water scarce...
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Johanna Engström, Keighobad Jafarzadegan and Hamid Moradkhani
Droughts are among the costliest natural hazards in the U.S. and globally. The severity of the hazard is closely related to a region?s ability to cope and recover from the event, an ability that depends on the region?s sensitivity and adaptive capacity. ...
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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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Junnan Xiong, Jin Li, Weiming Cheng, Nan Wang and Liang Guo
Flash floods are one of the natural disasters that threaten the lives of many people all over the world every year. Flash floods are significantly affected by the intensification of extreme climate events and interactions with exposed and vulnerable soci...
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Gustavo Naumann, Walter M. Vargas, Paulo Barbosa, Veit Blauhut, Jonathan Spinoni and Jürgen V. Vogt
During the last 20 years, Argentina experienced several extreme and widespread droughts in many different regions, including the core cropland areas. The most devastating recent events were recorded in the years 2006, 2009 and 2011. Reported impacts of t...
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Gustavo Naumann, Walter M. Vargas, Paulo Barbosa, Veit Blauhut, Jonathan Spinoni and Jürgen V. Vogt
During the last 20 years, Argentina experienced several extreme and widespread droughts in many different regions, including the core cropland areas. The most devastating recent events were recorded in the years 2006, 2009 and 2011. Reported impacts of t...
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Li Erikson, Patrick Barnard, Andrea O?Neill, Nathan Wood, Jeanne Jones, Juliette Finzi Hart, Sean Vitousek, Patrick Limber, Maya Hayden, Michael Fitzgibbon, Jessica Lovering and Amy Foxgrover
This paper is the second of two that describes the Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS) approach for quantifying physical hazards and socio-economic hazard exposure in coastal zones affected by sea-level rise and changing coastal storms. The modelling ...
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David Ortega-Gaucin, Jesús De la Cruz Bartolón and Heidy V. Castellano Bahena
Drought is one of the most harmful hydro climatic threats to society. Mexico has been historically affected by recurring and long-lasting droughts that have severely impacted society and the economy. Consequently, public programs and policies have been d...
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Terence Epule Epule, James D. Ford, Shuaib Lwasa and Laurent Lepage
Climate projections in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) forecast an increase in the intensity and frequency of droughts with implications for maize production. While studies have examined how maize might be affected at the continental level, there have been few ...
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Terence Epule Epule, James D. Ford, Shuaib Lwasa, Laurent Lepage
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Climate projections in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) forecast an increase in the intensity and frequency of droughts with implications for maize production. While studies have examined how maize might be affected at the continental level, there have been few ...
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Kevin Cresswell, Diana Mitsova, Weibo Liu, Maria Fadiman and Tobin Hindle
Urbanization and warming climate suggest that health impacts from extreme heat will increase in cities, thus locating vulnerable populations is pivotal. However, heat vulnerability indices (HVI) overwhelmingly interpret one model that may be inaccurate o...
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David Ortega-Gaucin, Jesús A. Ceballos-Tavares, Alejandro Ordoñez Sánchez and Heidy V. Castellano-Bahena
Drought is one of the major threats to water and food security in many regions around the world. The present study focuses on the evaluation of agricultural drought risk from an integrated perspective, that is, emphasizing the combined role of hazard, ex...
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Malithi Fernando, Eva Heinen, Daniel Johnson
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Gentrification is an increasingly common phenomenon in many urban neighbourhoods. While cities invest in more sustainable travel options for their residents, there is limited literature on its connection to gentrification of the surrounding areas. Unders...
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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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Matthew Kelly, Imogen Schwarz, Mark Ziegelaar, Andrew B. Watkins and Yuriy Kuleshov
Floods are the most common and costliest natural disaster in Australia. Australian flood risk assessments (FRAs) are mostly conducted on relatively small scales using modelling outputs. The aim of this study was to develop a novel approach of index-based...
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