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Science Education, Volume 109, Issue 6, Page 1652-1668, November 2025.ABSTRACT In this article I explore the case of the Mariana dam disaster in 2015 in Brazil seeking to contribute to reflections about the role of chemistry and chemistry education in environmental injustices. Drawing on stories about this disaster shared in the Dead River Podcast (2024), on wider literature and on other cases of environmental injustices
Haira E. Gandolfi
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Quantitative Kinetic Energy Estimated from Disdrometer Signal [PDF]
, 2020 The kinetic energy of the rain drops was predicted in a relation between the rain rate and rain quantity, derived directly from the rain drop size distribution (DSD), which had been measured by a disdrometer located in the eastern state of Alagoas ...
Kwon, Byung-Hyuk +4 more
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American Journal of Primatology, Volume 87, Issue 9, September 2025.Conceptual diagram illustrating how altitude and forest cover jointly influence the probability of primate occurrence. Higher altitudes and greater forest cover are associated with increased occurrence probability. Icons on the axes represent gradients of altitude (left) and forest cover (bottom), while primate silhouettes depict different ...
Aron Silvarolli Fernandes +4 more
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Caracterización de desastres naturales y tecnológicos con énfasis en desastres hidrológicos
Cuadernos del CURIHAM, 2019 Este trabajo da un panorama sobre los desastres asociados a factores naturales y tecnológicos. Se usa la base de datos EM-DAT de la Universidad de Louvain (Bélgica), que cuenta con datos desde el año 1900 hasta el 2018. Los desastres naturales prevalecen
Carlos Scuderi +3 more
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The Development and Usage of the Greenstone Digital Library Software [PDF]
, 2008 The Greenstone software has helped spread the practical impact of digital library technology throughout the world-particularly in developing countries.
Witten, Ian H.
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Risk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores the sociohistorical construction of civilian unpreparedness as a public policy issue in Los Angeles, arguing that it emerged not as a neutral response to escalating urban risks, but as a mechanism through which actors negotiated power dynamics amid urban transformations between 1940 and 1980.
Piero Tellerías Melgarejo
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PLANEJAMENTO E ZONEAMENTO URBANO: EVOLUÇÃO DO USO E OCUPAÇÃO DO SOLO EM SÃO JOSÉ DOS CAMPOS-SP
Revista da ANPEGE, 2017 O presente artigo analisa as leis de zoneamento urbano de São José dos Campos-SP com objetivo de avaliar a continuidade nas políticas de uso e ocupação do solo, bem como o ordenamento do espaço e planejamento urbano no município. São José dos Campos éuma
Regina Tortorella Reani
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, 2015 Aunque la comunidad internacional haya tratado ya muchos aspectos de los desastres, del cambio climático y de la movilidad humana, para progresar realmente es esencial unir las diversas líneas de debate con el objetivo de desarrollar una respuesta ...
Brende, Børge, Burkhalter, Didier
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Risk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2025.ABSTRACT When war refugees arrive in a host country, they may find themselves in a vulnerable condition and struggle to cope in a foreign setting. This article presents a systematic approach to identifying important communication‐related challenges that should be addressed by policymakers at the national level of the host country to reduce the ...
Kristi Aav +3 more
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Revista Brasileira de Cartografia, 2017 No Brasil, os principais fenômenos relacionados a desastres naturais são estiagens, inundações (bruscas e graduais), escorregamentos de solos e/ou rochas, e tempestades.
Diego Oliveira de Souza +4 more
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