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Frontiers in Built Environment, 2022 Thunderstorm downburst winds are a major cause of severe damage to buildings and other infrastructure. The initiative of the NSF-NHERI Wall of Wind (WOW) Experimental Facility to design and develop a downburst simulator was established to open new ...
Alvaro Danilo Mejia +7 more
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Nature Communications, 2021 There are a number of competing explanations for the late Pleistocene extinction of many North American megafauna species. Here, the authors apply a Bayesian regression approach that finds greater concordance between megafaunal declines and climate ...
Mathew Stewart +2 more
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BMJ Open, 2023 Objective To critically assess the impacts of very hot weather on (i) frontline staff in hospitals in England and (ii) on healthcare delivery and patient safety.Study design A qualitative study design using key informant semi-structured interviews ...
Sari Kovats +4 more
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Extreme events in biological, societal, and earth sciences: A systematic review of the literature
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 The term “extreme event” is commonly used to describe high-impact, unanticipated natural events, like floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
Mathew Stewart +5 more
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Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos sobre Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres, 2022 This study evaluates the knowledge retention of the fifth cohort´s graduates of the Certificate in 'Local development planning, land use management, and disaster risk management' (PDLOTGR), an academic postgraduate program implemented in Latin America ...
Juan Pablo Sarmiento, Catalina Sarmiento
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 The second millennium CE in Europe is known for both climatic extremes and bloody conflict. Europeans experienced the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age, and they suffered history-defining violence like the Wars of the Roses, Hundred Years War ...
W. Christopher Carleton +5 more
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Risk Transfer for Populations in Precarious Urban Environments
International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2020 This study explores risk transfer options that precarious and marginal urban communities could use to protect themselves from future damages and losses generated by socio-natural hazards and disasters at the individual and community levels. The design is
Juan Pablo Sarmiento +1 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Lidar (light-detection and ranging) has revolutionized archaeology. We are now able to produce high-resolution maps of archaeological surface features over vast areas, allowing us to see ancient land-use and anthropogenic landscape modification at ...
W. Christopher Carleton +5 more
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Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos sobre Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres, 2018 El trabajo busca ofrecer una vista general, actualizada, pero también crítica de los asentamientos informales en América Latina y el Caribe, e identificar y explorar posibles tendencias entre los diferentes países con respecto a la gobernanza y ...
Vicente Sandoval, Juan Pablo Sarmiento
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Aerodynamic Mitigation of Wind Uplift on Low-Rise Building Roof Using Large-Scale Testing
Frontiers in Built Environment, 2020 During strong wind events such as hurricanes and thunderstorms, building roofs are subjected to high wind uplift forces (suctions), which often lead to severe roofing component damage and possibly, water intrusion.
Ziad Azzi +6 more
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