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Disaster preparedness of Hiroshima community health nurses: A mixed-method study

Progress in Disaster Science, 2023
The number of natural disasters has increased globally as a result of climate change. Community nurses become frontline workers in disaster-struck areas, protecting their clients from harm and risk.
Mayumi Kako, Alison Hutton
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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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What Do Music Therapists Need to Know Before the Disaster Strikes?

Voices, 2012
The paper discusses required knowledge in preparation for a disaster relief. The author shares her experience of the Great East Japan Earthquake and reviews how she went through the post-disaster phase as a music therapist.
Masako Otera
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Building Disaster Resilience within the Emirati Energy Sector through a Comprehensive Strategic Mitigation Plan [PDF]

, 2013
Disasters, both natural and man-made, have been occurring with increasing frequency and effect in recent decades in many countries around the world. Such threats have been shown to result in a loss of life, property and income and all of which have an ...
Khaili, K., Amaratunga, Dilanthi, Pathirage, Chaminda   +2 more
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"Last-Mile" preparation for a potential disaster [PDF]

, 2009
Extreme natural events, like e.g. tsunamis or earthquakes, regularly lead to catastrophes with dramatic consequences. In recent years natural disasters caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, destruction of infrastructure, disruption of economic activity
Gress, A., Setiadi, N., Klein, R., Klüpfel, H., Schlurmann, T., Moder, F., Birkmann, J., Oczipka, M., Dech, S., Goseberg, N., Strunz, G., Siegert, Florian, Taubenböck, H., Lämmel, G., Wahl, R., Nagel, K., Lehmann, F.   +16 more
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Activities of the ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee Regarding Sediment-Related Disaster Prevention Using Non-Structural Measures, Based on Japa Nese SABO Technology

Tropical Cyclone Research and Review, 2013
: In the project activities of the ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee (TC), the National institute for Land and Infrastructure Management (NILIM), the SABO (Erosion and Sediment Control) Department of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (
Shin-Ichiro Hayashi, Hideaki Mizuno, Atsushi Okamoto, Masaki Hiruma, Reiji Kondo   +4 more
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Key scientific and technological issues of joint prevention and control of river flood and urban waterlogging disaster chain in megacities

Shui kexue jinzhan, 2023
In recent years, the risk of extreme super rainstorm in megacities coupled with big flood in rivers has been increasing, which caused heavy casualties and property losses.
Jiahong LIU, Chao MEI, Hongwei LIU, Xiaoyi FANG, Guangheng NI, Wenbo JIN   +5 more
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Preparing children for climate-related disasters [PDF]

BMJ Paediatrics Open, 2020
Climate-related disasters affect different dimensions of children’s health and well-being both directly and indirectly. Reducing children’s vulnerability and exposure to climate-related disasters is crucial to protect them against risks. Children as climate-change agents and future leaders at local, national and international level can obviously ...
Hamed Seddighi, Sepideh Yousefzadeh, Mónica López López, Homeira Sajjadi   +3 more
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Disaster Resilience Education and Research Roadmap for Europe 2030 : ANDROID Report [PDF]

, 2015
A disaster resilience education and research roadmap for Europe 2030 has been launched. This roadmap represents an important output of the ANDROID disaster resilience network, bringing together existing literature in the field, as well as the results of ...
Rochas, C, Kaklauskss, A, Perera, S, Haigh, Richard, Perdikou, S, Faber, M, Velazquez, J, Lill, Irene, Faber, Michael, Perdikou, S., Thayaparan, Menaha, Rochas, C., Lill, I., Indirli, M., Haigh, RP, Kaklauskas, Arturas, Faber, M., Perera, Srinath, Amaratunga, RDG, Sparf, Jörgen, Perera, S., Indirli, Maurizio, Thayaparan, M, Perdikou, Skevi, Velazquez, Jerry, Sparf, J, Sparf, Jörgen,, Velazquez, J., Lill, I, Indirli, M, Amaratunga, Dilanthi, Rochas, Claudio, Sparf, J., Kaklauskas,, Arturas   +33 more
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Social Science Considerations for Integrating Aviation Technology, Emergency Services, and Human Resilience

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research, 2020
Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) have a range of innovative applications within the field of disaster management, underscoring the potential to enhance human security by integrating UAS across phases of disasters.
Chelsea A LeNoble, Joel M Billings, Janel M Ingraham, Ray H Chang, Allison A Kwesell   +4 more
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