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MANTRA: Improving Knowledge of Maternal Health, Neonatal Health, and Geohazards in Women in Rural Nepal Using a Mobile Serious Game

Frontiers in Public Health, 2020
Serious games, conveying educational knowledge rather than merely entertainment, are a rapidly expanding research domain for cutting-edge educational technology.
Sonja Mueller, Sonja Mueller, Delphine Soriano, Delphine Soriano, Andrei Boscor, Andrei Boscor, Naomi M. Saville, Abriti Arjyal, Sushil Baral, Maureen Fordham, Maureen Fordham, Gareth Hearn, Rachya Kayastha, Rachya Kayastha, Patty Kostkova, Patty Kostkova   +15 more
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Reflecting Disaster Risk in Development Indicators [PDF]

, 2019
Disasters triggered by hazards, such as floods, earthquakes, droughts, and cyclones, pose significant impediments to sustainable development efforts in the most vulnerable and exposed countries.
Mochizuki, Junko, Naqvi, Syed Ali Asjad
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The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and Its Indicators—Where Does Health Fit in?

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2017
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 recognizes the strong connection between health and disasters and promotes the concept of health resilience throughout.
Rishma Maini, Lorcan Clarke, Kevin Blanchard, Virginia Murray   +3 more
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A Likert Scale-Based Model for Benchmarking Operational Capacity, Organizational Resilience, and Disaster Risk Reduction

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, Omar Velazquez, Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, Carmine Galasso, Patty Kostkova, David Alexander   +5 more
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Disaster Risk Reduction

, 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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Informal Disaster Governance

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
Patrizia Isabelle Duda, Ilan Kelman, Navonel Glick   +2 more
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Impact of culture towards disaster risk reduction [PDF]

, 2010
Number of natural disasters has risen sharply worldwide making the risk of disasters a global concern. These disasters have created significant losses and damages to humans, economy and society.
Adato M., Arunotai N., Baligh H. H., Boen T., Cahn M., Chambers R., Daskon C., EM‐DAT, Faulkner S., Haigh R., Hall J. R., Hall N., Haviland W. A., Hoffman S. M., Huntington S. P., Kendall D., Koentjaraningrat A., Kroeber A. L., Lavigne F., McEntire D., Mercer J., Nanda S., Nissanka N. M. N. W. K., Nunn N. P. D., Ogburn W. F., Oliver‐Smith A. S., Palliyaguru R., Perez I. N., Ratnayake R. M. G. D., Schaefer R. T., Schech S., Schein E. H., Sumner W. G., Taylor W., Udayangani Kulatunga, UN/ISDR, UNESCO, Williams R., Wisner B.   +38 more
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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.
Ilan Kelman, David Alexander, Carina Fearnley, Susanna Jenkins, Peter Sammonds   +4 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, Aka F. Tongwa, Clementine Burnley, Zouh T. Isabella   +3 more
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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, Ilan Kelman, Jonathan Chambers, Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson   +3 more
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