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Professional doctorates: applicability to the construction industry in increasing societal resilience to disasters [PDF]

, 2015
With the increase in occurrence of high impact disasters, the role of Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) in enhancing the disaster related knowledge and skills of construction professionals is highly recognised.
Amaratunga, Dilanthi, Haigh, Richard, Adeniyi, Onaopepo, Perera, Srinath, Malalgoda, Chamindi, Keraminiyage, Kaushal   +5 more
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SoS in Disasters: Why following the manual can be a mistake [PDF]

, 2012
According to both the US Geological Survey and the World Bank, $280 billion dollars could have been saved if $40 billion dollars had been invested in disaster prevention.
Ireland, V., Vernon Ireland, Cavallo, A., Antonella Cavallo   +3 more
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Developing an approach to assess the influence of integrating disaster risk reduction practices into infrastructure reconstruction on socio-economic development [PDF]

, 2013
Purpose ? Disasters provide physical, social, economic, political and environmental development windows of opportunity particularly through housing and infrastructure reconstruction.
Haigh, RP, Palliyaguru, Roshani Sandika, Amaratunga, Dilanthi, Palliyaguru, Roshani, Richard Haigh, Haigh, Richard, Roshani Palliyaguru, Palliyaguru, R, Dilanthi Amaratunga, Amaratunga, RDG   +9 more
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Potential of microbial electrosynthesis for contributing to food production using CO2 during global agriculture-inhibiting disasters

Cleaner Engineering and Technology, 2021
A sun-blocking global catastrophic risk (GCR) such as a nuclear winter could completely collapse the agricultural system. Producing alternative foods through methods requiring little to no sunlight has been identified as a cost-effective response to ...
Juan B. García Martínez, Michael M. Brown, Xenia Christodoulou, Kyle A. Alvarado, David C. Denkenberger   +4 more
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Incipient motion of sediment particles in the presence of bed forms under decelerating and accelerating flows

Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics, 2022
This paper investigates the incipient motion of sediment particles under non-uniform flow in river and laboratory. In rivers, the non-uniform flow is often observed due to the presence of various bed forms.
Dodangeh Esmaeil, Afzalimehr Hossein
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Editorial: Evolution mechanism and prevention technology of karst geological engineering disasters

Frontiers in Earth Science
Pengfei Liu, Peishuai Chen, Xiangrong Song, Xin Feng, Cong Zhang   +4 more
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Engineering disasters: The role of engineering versus management cumulative failure risk factor

, 2019
Published in SOAR: Shocker Open Access Repository by Wichita State University Libraries Technical Services, November 2022.The article investigates engineering disasters as failures of either engineering design, project management decisions, or management
Gapinski, Andrzej J.
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Multi-Source Remote Sensing Investigation of Spatiotemporal Deformation and Mechanisms of the Pangcun Giant Accumulation Landslide, Southeastern Tibet

Remote Sensing
The geological environment of southeastern Tibet is characterized by complex tectonics and high climatic sensitivity, and giant accumulation landslides pose significant threats to infrastructure and human safety. This study investigates the Pangcun giant
Yankun Wang, Mengxue Wei, Li Yue, Jingjing Shi, Tao Wen   +4 more
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Disasters in the Literature of Human Factors: An Analysis of Subject and Application Terms [PDF]

, 2004
In this preliminary study, we analyzed the literature of disasters as covered by the field of human factors. The purpose is to reach a better understanding of the structure of human factors information and its major components as they relate to disaster ...
Osorio, Gabriel E., Osorio, Nestor L.
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Disaster knowledge factors: benefits and challenges [PDF]

Disasters bring about the loss of lives, property, employment and damage to the physical infrastructure and the environment. The number of reported disasters has increased steadily over the past century and risen very sharply during the past decade ...
Pathirage, C. P., Amaratunga, Dilanthi, Haigh, Richard, Seneviratne, T. K. K.   +3 more
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