The Economics of Natural Disasters - Implications and Challenges for Food Security [PDF]
A large and growing share of the world's poor lives under conditions in which high hazard risk coincides with high vulnerability. In the last decade, natural disasters claimed 79,000 lives each year and affected more than 200 million people, with damages
de Haen, Hartwig, Hemrich, Gunter
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Book of Abstracts on Ensuring Accountability in Disaster Risk Management and reconstruction [PDF]
, 2015 This book of abstracts incorporates the key note synopsis and all presented abstracts at the international workshop on Ensuring Accountability in Disaster Risk Management and reconstruction held in Colombo, Sri Lanka on the 8th December 2015 with the ...
Amaratunga, Dilanthi +2 more
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How AI Shapes the Future Landscape of Sustainable Building Design With Climate Change Challenges?
Advanced Science, EarlyView.This review examines how artificial intelligence reshapes sustainable building design faced with climate change challenges. The authors synthesize existing studies to demonstrate AI's transformative potential across design lifecycle phases from climate‐aware form generation to performance optimization.
Pengyuan Shen +5 more
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Jàmbá, 2019 Climate change contributes toward many global challenges, such as increases in diseases in some communities, thereby accelerating health hazards to disasters.
Alice Ncube, Magaret Tawodzera
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Pre-Disaster Risk Management in Post-Earthquake (1999) Turkey [PDF]
, 2010 This paper assesses the status of pre-disaster risk management in the case of Turkey. By focusing on the period following the catastrophic August 17, 1999 earthquake, the study benefits from USAID’s Disaster Risk Management Benchmarking Tool (DRMBT).
Erdem, Engin Ibrahim
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Aqueous Zinc‐Based Batteries: Active Materials, Device Design, and Future Perspectives
Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.This review conducts a comprehensive analysis of aqueous zinc‐based batteries (AZBs) based on their intrinsic mechanisms, including redox reactions, ion intercalation reactions, alloying reactions, electrochemical double‐layer reactions, and mixed mechanisms, systematically discussing recent advancements in each type of AZBs.
Yan Ran, Fang Dong, Shuhui Sun, Yong Lei
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EU-NICE, Eurasian University Network for International Cooperation in Earthquakes [PDF]
, 2012 Despite the remarkable scientific advancements of earthquake engineering and seismology in many countries, seismic risk is still growing at a high rate in the world’s most vulnerable communities.
Braga, F. +20 more
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Fabrication of Composite Cathode for All‐Solid‐State Sodium Batteries
Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.The design of composite cathodes for all‐solid‐state sodium batteries must address three critical challenges—interfacial side reactions, interfacial delamination, and highly tortuous transport pathways. This work outlines structural and interfacial strategies to optimize ion transport and mechanical stability, enabling durable, and high‐performance ...
Gaoming Sun +6 more
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Characteristics of Raindrop Spectrum in Different Regions of Ningxia During Summer
应用气象学报Raindrop size distribution (DSD) is a key microphysical characteristic of precipitation, as it effectively describes the variation in raindrop number concentration with raindrop size.
Xue Zhengzheng +4 more
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Iranian nurses' perceptions of core competencies required for disaster risk management. [PDF]
BMC Emerg Med, 2023 Soltani Goki F +4 more
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