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Classic Methodologies: Why They Still Matter

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While recognizing the importance of innovative, new approaches to evaluation, the guest editors and authors present this special issue of New Directions for Evaluation, urging evaluators to revisit established methodologies to address the growing complexity and ambiguity of today's wicked problems and indeed any problem they are commissioned ...
Benjamin Harris, Julianne Kealey
wiley   +1 more source

Barriers to and opportunities for the restoration of mana in emergency management legislation and its implementation for Māori. [PDF]

Disasters
Rout M, Awatere S, Reid J, Campbell E, Huang A, Warmenhoven T.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA): Seeking Sustainability

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The world is currently facing wicked problems caused by humanities’ environmental footprint. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a holistic, systematic high‐level planning and decision‐making instrument designed to assess impacts of wicked problems, and the strategic actions developed to address them.
Julianne Kealey, Lyn Alderman
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of earthquake preparedness training on mothers with physically disabled children: a randomized controlled study. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Adıyaman A, Can V, Sarman A.
europepmc   +1 more source

A fire safety engineering approach to improving community resilience to the impacts of wildfire

Fire and Materials, EarlyView.
Abstract Each year severe wildfires continue to cause significant destruction resulting in the loss of life, property, critical infrastructure, and the environment. In an effort to increase community preparedness and resilience to wildfire, international jurisdictions have adopted both guiding principles and prescriptive codes that apply to both urban ...
Greg Penney, Greg Baker, Andres Valencia, Daniel Gorham   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Instruments for the assessment of disaster management among healthcare professionals: a scoping review. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Elshami S, Yakti O, Mohamed Ibrahim MI, Awaisu A, Sherbash M, Mukhalalati B.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Comprehensive laboratory study on smoke gases during the thermal oxidative decomposition of forest and vegetation fuels

Fire and Materials, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the composition of smoke gases in forest and vegetation samples to draw conclusions about the actual smoke gas composition during wildfires. The focus is particularly on regions with extensive pine forests, like in Eastern Germany.
Kira Piechnik, Lukas Heydick, Anja Hofmann, Andrea Klippel   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The DANA disaster: unraveling the political and economic determinants for Valencia's floods devastation. [PDF]

Int J Equity Health
Galvez-Hernandez P, Dai Y, Muntaner C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Influence of Sidewall Effects on Ejected Flame During Facade Calibration Tests: Experimental Analysis and Findings

Fire and Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The inclusion of sidewalls is a typical architectural feature in building façades, which has raised significant concerns about their potential to accelerate flame spread, particularly with the increasing prevalence of high‐rise buildings. This paper presents an experimental investigation and analysis of façade flame with a single sidewall ...
Xukun Sun, Hideki Yoshioka, Takafumi Noguchi, Yuhei Nishio, Yoshifumi Ohmiya, Tetsuya Hayakawa, Biao Zhou   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urban green spaces and flood disaster management: toward sustainable urban design. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Liu N, Zhang F.
europepmc   +1 more source