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Disaster Risk Reduction Reconsidered
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2023 Increasing resilience has become the favoured approach in efforts to curb the impact of disasters. It is central to the United Nations’ International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction and to its Sustainable Development Goals, and it is now championed by most of the nations and civil society organisations working with hazards.
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2020 Likert scales are a common methodological tool for data collection used in quantitative or mixed-method approaches in multiple domains. They are often employed in surveys or questionnaires, for benchmarking answers in the fields of disaster risk ...
Gianluca Pescaroli +5 more
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Politics and Governance, 2020 Scholars and practitioners are increasingly questioning formal disaster governance (FDG) approaches as being too rigid, slow, and command-and-control driven. Too often, local realities and non-formal influences are sidelined or ignored to the extent that
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, 2020 Disaster risk reduction (DRR, or disaster reduction) is an umbrella term for processes of preparing for, responding to, recovering from, and managing the risk of disasters. It refers primarily to the acts of setting the policy and strategic agendas for these tasks.
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Systemic risks perspectives of Eyjafjallajökull volcano's 2010 eruption
Progress in Disaster Science, 2023 In 2010, southern Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted, releasing ash that spread across Europe. Due to its potential to damage aircraft, much of European airspace was closed for six days.
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Disaster risk reduction in Iraq. [PDF]
Jamba, 2019 Iraq is at risk of multiple hazards including both natural and man-made calamities. Little effort had been made before 2003 to address the disaster risk; even though many legislations enacted to provide a relief in the event of the acute crisis, they were mainly focused on the reactive response to the calamities without taking into consideration the ...
Al-Shamsi MTM.
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Correlating heatwaves and relative humidity with suicide (fatal intentional self-harm)
Scientific Reports, 2021 Empirical evidence suggests that the effects of anthropogenic climate change, and heat in particular, could have a significant impact on mental health.
Fernando Florido Ngu +3 more
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Local governance in disaster risk reduction in Cameroon
Jàmbá, 2012 At the 2005 World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction held in Hyogo, Japan, 168 countries including Cameroon adopted the Hyogo Framework for Action, committing to take action to reduce human and socio-economic disaster losses.
Buh-Wung Gaston +3 more
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Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Ethnic Minorities Groups in the UK
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 COVID-19 vaccines have been developed and administered at record pace in order to curtail the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccine hesitancy has impacted uptake unequally across different groups.
Maryam Naqvi +4 more
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Losses Associated with Secondary Effects in Earthquakes
Frontiers in Built Environment, 2017 The number of earthquakes with high damage and high losses has been limited to around 100 events since 1900. Looking at historical losses from 1900 onward, we see that around 100 key earthquakes (or around 1% of damaging earthquakes) have caused around ...
James E. Daniell +2 more
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