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Determination of Medical Students’ Perception on Disaster Awareness [PDF]
Bezmiâlem ScienceObjective: Medical students and general practitioners have a vital role in disasters both in the “preparedness and mitigation” and “response and recovery” phases.
Bilge DELİBALTA +4 more
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Disaster Risk Reduction in the Built Environment in Sri Lanka- An overview [PDF]
, 2013 Natural disasters have long-term implications on sustainable development. They mainly destroy the built environment thereby hindering economic and social development, and causing environment degradation.
Amaratunga, Dilanthi +2 more
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Geosfera Indonesia, 2022 The Bahorok River basin has a high flash-flood hazard index. This is shown by loss of lives and damage of homes due to floods in recent years, however, no research examined community preparedness on the hazard of flash-flood.
Furqan Ishak Aksa, Egianinta Sinulingga
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Post-tsunami road reconstruction in Sri Lanka: Efficacy of mainstreaming disaster risk reduction [PDF]
, 2013 Following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami all roads in the affected areas in Sri Lanka were inaccessible during the immediate aftermath of the disaster either due to the damages they sustained or poor networking of roads and lack of contingency planning ...
Palliyaguru, Roshani +2 more
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Natural Disaster Prevention Literacy Education among Vietnamese High School Students
Education Sciences, 2023 Research has shown that natural disasters can be prevented or mitigated effectively through education which provides knowledge and skills for the young generation to protect themselves and act to protect the community.
Bay Dinh Vu +4 more
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Disaster management in India : need for an integrated approach [PDF]
, 2022 It is now widely known that the hazards can be natural, but most disasters are ‘human-made’. The failure to properly implement developmental policies and practices with due consideration to disaster risk management is the leading cause of turning a ...
Vipul, Nakum +2 more
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A Dynamic Navigation Algorithm Considering Network Disruptions [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2014 In traffic network, link disruptions or recoveries caused by sudden accidents, bad weather and traffic congestion, lead to significant increase or decrease in travel times on some network links.
J. Jiang, L. Wu
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Factors Affecting the Disaster Response Competency of Emergency Medical Technicians in South Korea
Asian Nursing Research, 2019 Purpose: This study explored the factors influencing disaster response competency, that is, demographic and disaster-related characteristics, personal disaster (household and workplace) preparedness, disaster risk perception, and self-efficacy in ...
Dongchoon Uhm +4 more
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Public Risk Perception and Risk Communication of Typhoon Disaster [PDF]
Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response (JRACR), 2016 Public risk perception is the basis for effective natural disaster risk communication, and the latter can strongly influence the former. Take typhoon disaster as an example, this paper constructs the theory model of 12 factors affecting risk perception ...
Zhihai Shang, Liping Li
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Social Protection and Disaster Recovery
, 2020 This note highlights the critical contribution that social protection can make to a broader disaster recovery effort by helping directly to disaster-affected households.
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery
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