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Performance of the bamboo geotextile system ‘GEOBAMTILE’ for road construction on deep soft ground [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2022 Infrastructural development faces the dilemma of attempting to construct over deep soft ground. Practical methods to support heavy engineering construction over soft ground has evolved tremendously.
Zainuldin Nurulbaiti +2 more
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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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Climate Risk Management, 2023 Climate-related disasters are increasing in many parts of the world, yet investment in disaster risk reduction (DRR) remains insufficient to manage these risks.
Viktor Rözer +4 more
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Social media as an information source for rapid flood inundation mapping [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2015 During and shortly after a disaster, data about the hazard and its consequences are scarce and not readily available. Information provided by eyewitnesses via social media is a valuable information source, which should be explored in a~more effective way.
J. Fohringer +3 more
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Disaster risk reduction and G20: A major step forward
Progress in Disaster Science, 2023 Disaster risks are increasing and changing their nature. The global risk landscape is evolving as new risks – many of them arising from cascading and inter-connected hazards – are arising.
R. Shaw, Kamal Kishore
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Journal of Infrastructure Preservation and Resilience, 2023 Disruptions to key lifelines, especially electrical power, can cause outsized impacts on human functioning. The state of the art on developed countries has focused on enhancing resilience to electrical grid infrastructure but has neglected to track ...
Daniel Thompson, Gianluca Pescaroli
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BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Mobile technology is increasingly important for delivering public health interventions to remote populations. This research study developed, piloted, and assessed a serious game for mobile devices that teaches geohazard, maternal, and neonatal
Sonja Mueller +10 more
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Sustainable Development, 2021 Crises and disasters are windows of opportunity to learn and transform toward enhancing disaster risk reduction (DRR) and resilience. However, a poor understanding of community resilience and the social dimensions of risk, the lack of a methodol-ogy to ...
A. Imperiale, F. Vanclay
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Journal of Environmental Management, 2022 Nature-based solutions (NbS) contrast with grey infrastructure measures to reduce risk from natural hazards. Using natural and sustainable measures (green) or combining green with grey elements (hybrid) can provide important co-benefits beyond risk ...
Carl C. Anderson +3 more
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Nature Communications, 2021 Natural hazard events provide opportunities for policy change to enhance disaster risk reduction (DRR), yet it remains unclear whether these events actually fulfill this transformative role around the world. Here, we investigate relationships between the
D. Nohrstedt +3 more
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