Greece-Turkey Disaster Diplomacy from Disaster Risk Reduction [PDF]
Disaster diplomacy examines how and why disaster-related activities do or do not reduce conflict and increase cooperation. The 1999 earthquakes in Greece and Turkey became an icon for this field of research, with numerous publications exploring how ...
Ganapti, NE, Kelman, I, Koukis, T
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Beyond Deaths and Dollars: Modeling Requirements to Support Equity‐Focused Disaster Risk Management
The disaster risk modeling framework has long focused on quantifiable impact metrics to assess a hazard's potential direct effects, such as fatalities (deaths) and economic losses (dollars). Over time, as the framework has expanded to inform both public and private applications, additional impact metrics that more directly consider the societal roots ...
Sabine Loos +3 more
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The Challenges and Obstacles of Post-Disaster Road Infrastructure Reconstruction in the Pre-Construction Phase [PDF]
Purpose The reconstruction of road infrastructure in the post-disaster context require different approach when compared with road projects in the normal development context.
Amaratunga, Dilanthi +2 more
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Operationalizing Equity: How Disaggregated Risk Metrics Support Equity in Emergency Management
While numerous studies show that natural hazards disproportionately impact socially vulnerable populations, approaches to integrate social equity into emergency management to reduce such vulnerability have been ill‐defined and inconsistent. Considering earthquake disasters, emergency managers often lack information from near‐real‐time seismic loss ...
Marísa Macías +4 more
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National Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change Impacts: A Case Study of Mozambique [PDF]
human development, climate ...
Albertina Bambaige
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Post-Disaster Road Reconstruction in Aceh - Local Governments’ Role in Road Maintenance [PDF]
Many studies have shown the importance of improved road infrastructure towards economic development of a region through economic agglomeration and widened business network coverage resulting from better access and higher mobility. However, such benefit
Amaratunga, Dilanthi, Hayat, Ezri
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Accredited qualifications for capacity development in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation [PDF]
Increasingly practitioners and policy makers working across the globe are recognising the importance of bringing together disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. From studies across 15 Pacific island nations, a
Buliruarua, Leigh-Ann +20 more
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Secure and Prepared Newsletter, April 6, 2012, Vol. 8, no. 7 [PDF]
A bi-weekly newsletter for those involved in the fields of homeland security and/or emergency ...
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A tale of two cities: Annapolis and St. Augustine balancing preservation and community values in an era of rising seas [PDF]
Annapolis, Maryland, and St. Augustine, Florida, are colonial cities on the East Coast of the United States with national historic landmark designations recognizing the strong blends of natural and cultural resources that make each community unique ...
Craig, Lisa M., Keys, Leslee F.
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APFIC/FAO Regional Consultative Workshop: Securing sustainable small-scale fisheries: Bringing together responsible fisheries and social development, Windsor Suites Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand 68 October 2010 [PDF]
In the Global Overview, we attempt to view reefs in terms of the poor who are dependent on reefs for their livelihoods, how the reefs benefit the poor, how changes in the reef have impacted the lives of the poor and how the poor have responded and coped ...
Emma Whittingham +2 more
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