Results 51 to 60 of about 3,762 (184)
Burned area mapping in Different Data Products for the Southwest of the Brazilian Amazon
Revista Brasileira de Cartografia, 2023 Fires affect the Amazon rainforest and cause various socio-environmental problems. Analyses of forest fire dynamics supporting actions to combat and prevent forest fires.
Débora Joana Dutra +13 more
doaj
The Current Brazilian Forestry Code and its Implications for the Prevention of Natural Disasters
Sustentabilidade em Debate, 2013 We have analyzed the changes in the Brazilian law 12.651/2012 in comparison with the former one (Forest Code, 1965) and presented the implications for civil defense institutions and society.
Marcos Pellegrini Coutinho
doaj +1 more source
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
wiley +1 more source
Pós: Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo da FAUUSP, 2006 Os desastres de origem" natural" deixaram milhares de mortos e feridos e causaram danos materiais de bilhões de dólares, nos últimos 20 anos. Esses desastres tiveram origem não tanto em fenômenos naturais extraordinários, mas na falta de planos e ...
Joel Audefroy +1 more
doaj +3 more sources
Anuário do Instituto de Geociências, 2016 A previsão da vazão dos rios de uma bacia hidrográfica com risco de desastres naturais, como inundações e enxurradas, é um recurso fundamental a programas de monitoramento e alerta.
Mauro Ricardo da Silva +3 more
doaj +1 more source
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
wiley +1 more source
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
wiley +1 more source
A MACHINE LEARNING-BASED MODEL TO IMPROVE SHORTTERM FORECASTS OF FLOODING IN NOVA FRIBURGO-RJ
Revista Brasileira de Cartografia, 2017 Machine learning use in hydrological modeling has intensiï¬ ed in recent decades given the potential of these techniques to produce in short time satisfactory solutions to support tasks such as early fl ooding warnings.
Glauston R. T. de Lima +1 more
doaj
Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos sobre Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres, 2017 Este artículo revisa el desarrollo de estudios de evaluación de riesgos y su incorporación en Instrumentos de Planificación Territorial (IPT) en zonas afectadas por el terremoto y tsunami del 27 de febrero de 2010 (27F) durante los cinco años posteriores
Roberto Moris +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Risk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2025.ABSTRACT Using the Itaewon Crowd Crush Disaster as a case study of an emerging large‐scale disaster, we examine how ideology is related to media framing. Emerging large‐scale disasters and crowd crushes are useful for examining the role of ideology in media framing because they do not have the same ingrained ideological biases as other disasters ...
Wesley Wehde, Junghwa Choi, Jae Won Oh
wiley +1 more source