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Khalid Oubennaceur, Karem Chokmani, Anas El Alem and Yves Gauthier
In Canada, flooding is the most common and costly natural hazard. Flooding events significantly impact communities, damage infrastructures and threaten public security. Communication, as part of a flood risk management strategy, is an essential means of ...
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Pilar Barría, María Luisa Cruzat, Rodrigo Cienfuegos, Jorge Gironás, Cristián Escauriaza, Carlos Bonilla, Roberto Moris, Christian Ledezma, Maricarmen Guerra, Raimundo Rodríguez and Alma Torres
Multi-hazard evaluations are fundamental inputs for disaster risk management plans and the implementation of resilient urban environments, adapted to extreme natural events. Risk assessments from natural hazards have been typically restricted to the anal...
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Matthias Garschagen, Gusti Ayu Ketut Surtiari and Mostapha Harb
On a conceptual and normative level, the debate around transformation in the context of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation has been rising sharply over the recent years. Yet, whether and how transformation occurs in the messy realities...
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Nicola Banwell, Shannon Rutherford, Brendan Mackey, Roger Street and Cordia Chu
Disasters and climate change have significant implications for human health worldwide. Both climate change and the climate-sensitive hazards that result in disasters, are discussed in terms of direct and indirect impacts on health. A growing body of lite...
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David Fang, Chen-Ling Fang, Bi-Kun Tsai, Li-Chi Lan and Wen-Shan Hsu
Improvements in communications technology enable consumers to receive information through diverse channels. In the case of avian influenza, information repeated by the mass media socially amplifies the consumer awareness of risks. Facing indeterminate ri...
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Yusif Huseynov
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The main objectives of successful disaster risk reduction activities are the integration of risk reduction into national recovery programs, the development of policies and the progress of capacities designed to enhance and innovate preventive measures, a...
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Linpei Zhai and Jae Eun Lee
This study aimed to explore the differences in various aspects of community disaster resilience and how to enhance disaster resilience tailored to different community types. The evaluation results were validated using the flood event that occurred in Zhe...
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Boyi Li, Adu Gong, Longfei Liu, Jing Li, Jinglin Li, Lingling Li, Xiang Pan and Zikun Chen
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015?2030 (SFDRR) proposed seven targets comprising 38 quantified indicators and various sub-indicators to monitor the progress of disaster risk and loss reduction efforts. However, challenges persist rega...
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Cristina Casareale, Eleonora Gioia, Alessandra Colocci, Noemi Marchetti, Maria Teresa Carone and Fausto Marincioni
Despite the concrete evidence of human responsibilities with the ongoing environmental crisis, tangible changes toward low disaster-risk development models are slow in coming and delayed in implementation. This paper discusses the principles of geoethics...
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Jie-Lun Chiang, Chia-Ming Kuo and Leila Fazeldehkordi
The complex and extensive mechanism of landslides and their direct connection to climate change have turned these hazards into critical events on a global scale, which can have significant negative influences on the long-term sustainable development of n...
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Md. Sazzad Ansari, Jeroen Warner, Vibhas Sukhwani and Rajib Shaw
Bangladesh, a flat densely populated country in a dynamic delta, is vulnerable to recurring flood disasters. Various types of structural and non-structural flood risk reduction interventions have been implemented over the years to safeguard the people an...
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Cristiano Fidani
A correlation between low L-shell 30?100 keV electrons precipitating into the atmosphere and M = 6 earthquakes in West Pacific was presented in past works where ionospheric events anticipated earthquakes by 1.5?3.5 h. This was a statistical result obtain...
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Erlend Andenæs, Berit Time, Tone Muthanna, Silje Asphaug and Tore Kvande
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Manoch Naksata, Anucha Watcharapasorn, Surat Hongsibsong and Ratana Sapbamrer
Wearing appropriate personal protective equipment during the application of pesticides is one method of reducing dermal exposure to pesticides. Thus, the aim of this research is to develop personal protective clothing (PPC) coated with gum rosin and inve...
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Aleksandr Moshnikov and Vladimir Bogatyrev
This article is devoted to an approach to develop a safety system process according to functional safety standards. With the development of technologies and increasing the specific energy stored in the equipment, the issue of safety during operation beco...
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Umar Lawal Dano
Floods are among the most destructive natural hazards that cost lives and disrupt the socioeconomic activities of residents, especially in the rapidly growing cities of developing countries. Jeddah, a coastal city situated in Saudi Arabia, has experience...
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Chang-Min Kim, Ellen J. Hong, Kyungyong Chung and Roy C. Park
As people communicate with each other, they use gestures and facial expressions as a means to convey and understand emotional state. Non-verbal means of communication are essential to understanding, based on external clues to a person?s emotional state. ...
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Carlos Germano Ferreira Costa
Recurrently drought, high food prices, conflict, and market distortions are some of the mutually reinforcing factors of vulnerability and instability affecting the building of sustainable development pathways in the world. In this regard, the linkages be...
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Xuehua Han and Juanle Wang
Social media has been applied to all natural disaster risk-reduction phases, including pre-warning, response, and recovery. However, using it to accurately acquire and reveal public sentiment during a disaster still presents a significant challenge. To e...
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