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, 2020
Every year man-made and natural disasters impact the lives of millions of people. The frequency of occurrence of such disasters is steadily increasing since the last 50 years, and this has resulted in considerable loss of life, destruction of ...
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Every year man-made and natural disasters impact the lives of millions of people. The frequency of occurrence of such disasters is steadily increasing since the last 50 years, and this has resulted in considerable loss of life, destruction of ...
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On Disasters and Disaster Knowledges
Frauensolidarität, 2021In September 2018, a powerful earthquake and tsunami struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. More than 1.200 people were confirmed dead, many of whom were swept away by the huge waves. But disasters are not ‘natural’. The ways we inhabit space matter. What voices are heard before and after a disaster? How could spatial planning prevent disasters? Two
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The Great Disaster: Disaster Nursing and Disaster Awareness
2023Disasters may affect the majority of the population physically, socially, economically, environmentally, and psychologically. Precautions and disaster management plans allow to mitigate the impact of disasters and reduce disaster-related damage. Nurses have very important roles and responsibilities in disaster management. Nurses, who have roles such as
ÖZGÜRSOY URAN, Berna Nilgün +1 more
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When Is a Disaster Not a Disaster?
Library & Archival Security, 1988Thirty-six water damaged volumes do not a disaster make. Three hundred and sixty volumes or 3,600 volumes, or 36,000 volumes do. While the scope of the Washington State University accident will not go down in the annals of major catastrophes such as the Florence flood of 1966, the Stanford University flood of 1978, or the Los Angeles Public Library ...
Eileen E. Brady, John F. Guido
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Development Policy Review, 2020
AbstractMotivationShould the process of forcibly evicting people from customary land be classified as a “disaster”? Some international organizations and governments are integrating processes on forced eviction of urban residents into policies that are primarily designed to manage displacements due to climate change and disasters—such as Vanuatu’s 2018 ...
Day, J, Wewerinke‐Singh, M, Price, S
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AbstractMotivationShould the process of forcibly evicting people from customary land be classified as a “disaster”? Some international organizations and governments are integrating processes on forced eviction of urban residents into policies that are primarily designed to manage displacements due to climate change and disasters—such as Vanuatu’s 2018 ...
Day, J, Wewerinke‐Singh, M, Price, S
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CEO early-life disaster experience and stock price crash risk
Journal of Corporate Finance, 2020An emerging stream of research documents that experience of traumatic events early in a CEO’s life influences the firm’s investment and financing choices.
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2019
A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Although a great deal of knowledge has been acquired regarding many aspects of disasters, such as driving factors, risk construction, complexity of resettlement, and ...
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A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Although a great deal of knowledge has been acquired regarding many aspects of disasters, such as driving factors, risk construction, complexity of resettlement, and ...
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A Systematic Review of the Impact of Disaster on the Mental Health of Medical Responders
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 2019Introduction: Medical responders are at-risk of experiencing a wide range of negative psychological health conditions following a disaster. Aim: Published literature was reviewed on the adverse psychological health outcomes in medical responders to ...
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Disasters and Disaster Management
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010A disaster is a state or an event which disrupts the functioning of a community or a society. The local communities mostly cannot resolve of their own in the disasters. The disaster selection criteria in this study are based on the geographical scale of a disaster, the warning time of a disaster occurrence, the number of injuries and deaths resulting ...
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The disaster after the disaster: The quicksand of post-disaster recovery funding
Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, 2019The incidence of natural disasters is on a steep rise, as are the costs associated with recovering from such incidents. Financially, this trend is unsustainable. In the USA, for example, severe reductions have been imposed on the grant funds available for distribution by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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