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Socioeconomic and Data challenges Disaster Risk Reduction in Europe

, 2019
Disaster risk reduction (DRR) involves complex processes with different stakeholders at all administrative levels. Two elements in particular play a major role: the need to ensure stakeholders' interoperability through an efficient exchange of data, and ...
Hagen, Jenny Sjastad, Sparf, Jörgen, Mihaljevic, Jadranska, Komac, Blaž, Fra Paleo, Urbano, Rossi, Jean-Louis, Sigmund, Zvonko, Rossi, Jean Louis, Paleo, Urbano Fra, Sjastad Hagen, Jenny, Vicario, Sara Alonso, Amaratunga, Dilanthi, Mysiak, Jaroslav, Siegmund, Alexander, Migliorini, Massimo, Alonso Vicario, Sara, Arefyeva, Elena, Altshuler, Alexander, Dolce, Mauro, Mihaljević, Jadranka, Myziak, Jaroslav, Pelling, Mark   +21 more
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Does Mitigation Save? Reviewing cost-1 benefit analyses of disaster risk reduction [PDF]

, 2014
The benefit-cost-ratio (BCR), used in cost-benefit analysis (CBA), is an indicator that attempts to summarize the overall value for money of a project.
Shreve, Cheney, Shreve, CM, Kelman, I, Kelman, Ilan, Kelman, I., Shreve, Cheney M., C.M. Shreve, Shreve, C.M., I. Kelman   +8 more
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Gender mainstreaming in disaster reduction: Why and how? [PDF]

The significant losses in human life and livelihoods, the destruction of economic and social infrastructure and damage to the environment caused by disasters in the past decade has increased the necessity for proper disaster reduction and risk ...
Ginige, K. N., Amaratunga, Dilanthi, Haigh, Richard   +2 more
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Transition in Global Basins From Precipitation‐Dominated to Evaporative Demand‐Dominated Meteorological Drought: Past Patterns and Future Projections

Earth's Future
Meteorological drought, one of the most destructive natural hazards, is driven by both precipitation deficits and high evaporative demand. While precipitation has traditionally been considered the dominant driver, recent studies suggest an increasing ...
Jiachen Ji, Chiyuan Miao, Jinlong Hu, Jiajia Su, Shidie Chen, Yufei Wang, Yunning Kong, Xiaoyong Bai, Yiying Wang   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Disaster Knowledge Gaps: Exploring the Interface Between Science and Policy for Disaster Risk Reduction in Europe

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2020
Expert scientific knowledge is fast becoming an integral part of disaster management, and, in the process, is changing the role of science for the reduction of disaster risks at the policy level.
Kristoffer Albris, K. Lauta, Emmanuel Raju   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A 1-km Dataset of Water Consumption and Irrigation for Major Grain Crops in the Yellow River Basin Based on the Crop Water Production Function

Scientific Data
Accurate estimation of crop water consumption and irrigation in the Yellow River Basin (YRB) is vital for water management and food security. Existing forward-logic methods (e.g., crop hydrological modeling method) fail to fully simulate key processes ...
Zheng Wang, Changxiu Cheng, Kaixuan Dai, Zanmei Wei, Bin Li   +4 more
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MANTRA game analytics: effectiveness of educational mobile game on knowledge gain and retention of Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) and women in rural Nepal assessed through game analytics

BMC Public Health
Background Mobile technology can deliver public health interventions to reach remote populations such as unique mHealth interventions aimed at low-literacy audiences in low resource settings. This research study assessed a mobile phone-based serious game
Sonja Mueller, Katerina Stavrianaki, Andrei Boscor, Naomi Saville, Abriti Arjyal, Sushil C. Baral, Maureen Fordham, Gareth Hearn, Patty Kostkova   +8 more
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Water Anomaly Type Identification Based on Deep Multisphere Decision Boundaries Using Remote Sensing Data

Remote Sensing
The increasing frequency of water anomalies poses severe threats to aquatic ecosystem stability, water resource security, and socioeconomic sustainability.
Jinfeng Song, Kun Jia, Haishuo Wei, Biao Cao, Xing Yan, Jianbo Qi, Kai Yan, Jinlong Fan, Qiao Wang   +8 more
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Performance of reinforced concrete pier columns subjected to lateral impact

工程科学学报, 2019
Anti-impact design is a very important aspect to ensure the safety of reinforced concrete (RC) bridges against extreme loads, such as explosions from terrorists attacks and accidental collisions of rockfalls and vehicles.
ZHAO Wu-chao, QIAN Jiang
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Author Correction: Hurricane risk assessment in a multi-hazard context for Dominica in the Caribbean

Scientific Reports, 2023
Peter Sammonds, Akhtar Alam, Simon Day, Katerina Stavrianaki, Ilan Kelman   +4 more
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