Crisis Preparation, Capacity Building, and Community Resilience: Lessons From Maui
Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 2023 Maui wildfires provide a unique context to explore the impact of nonprofit crisis networks taking a proactive role in community crisis response, leveraging resources, expertise, and networks. The Hawaiʻi Community Foundation (HCF) has been a key player in Maui's local response, providing critical support, mobilizing volunteers, and ...
Lauren Azevedo +3 more
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Disaster characteristics and policy implications of the MS6.2 Jishishan earthquake in Gansu Province
地震科学进展On December 18, 2023, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck Jishishan County, located in the Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture of Gansu Province, resulting in significant casualties, building collapses, and various geological hazards.
Xu Wang +5 more
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Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.Long‐term disdrometer observations are utilized to derive Z–R relationships for ‐the Western Pacific tropical cyclones. A hybrid moment‐based approach is employed to determine the interrelationships among pairs of gamma distribution parameters. Enhanced estimates of rainfall rate and slope parameter are obtained using machine‐learning techniques ...
Jayalakshmi Janapati +5 more
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Radiometric Constraints on the Timing, Tempo, and Effects of Large Igneous Province Emplacement
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 27-82., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Jennifer Kasbohm +2 more
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Prevention and Reduction of Earthquake Disasters in Asia and the Pacific Region
Prevention and Reduction of Earthquake Disasters in Asia and the Pacific Region地震は過去25年間で世界から1千万人以上の人命を奪った。とりわけ,アジア・太平洋地域の中国・日本・イラン・インド・パキスタン・アフガニスタン・トルコでは地震による被害が甚大である。これら地震多発国は地震を引き起こすプレート活動の活発な地域に位置している。地震波は自然災害であるので止めることは出来ないが,適切な防御策を講じることで被害を小さくすることができる。この防御策には,地震多発国の過去の地震災害の研究,危機アセスメントの準備,地震に弱い地域を示したハザードマップ,適切な建築基準の履行が必要である Earthquakes have killed more than one million people during the past 25 years worldwide, and in Asia ...
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Economic development perspectives of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction: Post-tsunami reconstruction in Sri Lanka [PDF]
Sri Lanka was found to be a disaster prone country in the recent past. The impact is more severe when developing countries are faced to various natural or man-made disasters.
Amaratunga, Dilanthi +2 more
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The Shifting Paradigms of Disaster Robotics Three Decades of Research
Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The increasing frequency and magnitude of natural disasters worldwide have raised the demand for advanced robotic systems in disaster response. In this research, a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of 2,201 Web of Science database papers was investigate systematically global research trends, patterns and emerging frontiers in disaster ...
Qin Hu +4 more
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Natural disasters : what is the role for social safety nets? [PDF]
This paper makes the case for why safety nets are an important tool for managing the risk of natural hazards. The use of safety nets is advocated both ex ante, to prevent and mitigate the impact of natural disaster and ex post, to cope with the impacts ...
Braunholz, Tim +2 more
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Strategies for Assessing Post‐Wildfire Geomorphic Resilience in Semiarid Rivers
River Research and Applications, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We review and summarize diverse components of a catchment that can be monitored after wildfire to assess the geomorphic resilience of the river corridor in semiarid regions. We distinguish upland portions of river catchments from river corridors.
Ellen Wohl +8 more
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Introduction to the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program and the latest strategic plan
地震科学进展The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) is the main coordination plan for earthquake disaster reduction at the level of the Federal Government of the United States. The United States Congress has made periodic adjustments in the form of
Lin Zhu +3 more
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