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Indonesian Journal of Social and Environmental IssuesChure Hills is considered as youngest Himalaya in the Himalayan chain. These hills are also considered vulnerable due to its fragile nature and unpredictable natural and human intervention.
Krishna Dev Joshi, Deepa Kumari Poudel
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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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, 2021 Climate-related hazards, more specifically droughts, floods and storms, cause the largest share of people affected by disasters and major economic losses.
Y. Walz +6 more
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A feminist vision for transformative change to disaster risk reduction policies and practices
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2021 Gender has received increased attention in disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies and practices over the past three decades. However, a critical analysis raises a number of questions: has the attention to gender brought transformative change to the lives
P. Yadav +5 more
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Disaster Risk Reduction Management Implementation in the Public Elementary Schools of the Department of Education, Philippines [PDF]
, 2022 This study evaluates the implementation of the Disaster Risk Reduction Management (DRRM) program in terms of disaster planning awareness and preparedness to respond during hazards to prevent disasters in public elementary schools in the Alfonso Lista ...
Ormilla, Rashid Ceazar Galanto +1 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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The influence of international agreements on disaster risk reduction
, 2022 Global frameworks established in 2015 - including the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the Paris Agreement - provide a comprehensive foundation for states to improve disaster risk management ...
Jonathan Raikes +7 more
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Multi-spatial scale assessment and multi-dataset fusion of global terrestrial evapotranspiration datasets [PDF]
Earth System Science DataEvapotranspiration (ET) is an important component of the terrestrial water cycle, carbon cycle, and energy balance. Currently, there are four main types of ET datasets: remote sensing–based, machine learning–based, reanalysis–based, and land–surface ...
Y. Wu +5 more
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Digital Public Goods for Disaster Risk Reduction in a Changing Climate
, 2023 The growth of the disaster and climate risk analysis has largely taken place through the development of proprietary models and data only accessible to a restricted group of users. However, core digital assets
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction +1 more
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Does people oriented urbanization catch up with land and population urbanization
npj Urban SustainabilityRecently, China has undergone rapid urbanization in terms of population and urban land growth. However, there are notable lags in the people-oriented dimensions of urbanization, including urban social services, environmental services, and socioeconomic ...
Tianci Gu +11 more
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