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Risk Communication in Latin America: an Evaluation of Its Impact While Facing the Covid-19 Pandemic
Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos sobre Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres, 2022 The systemic risk scenario generated by the COVID-19 pandemic implies reviewing how risk communication mechanisms are capable of influencing people's behavior and, with this, promote adherence to self-care and prevention measures.
Félix Liberona Durán +3 more
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What is the post-2015 development agenda? A look from the underlying disaster risk drivers
Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos sobre Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres, 2017 This study explores the current and projected impacts of the three post 2015 development agendas on the determinants of disaster risk: the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Sustainable Development Goals, and the Paris COP21 Agreement. The
Juan Pablo Sarmiento P.
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Aeroelastic Testing of Span-Wire Traffic Signal Systems
Frontiers in Built Environment, 2020 Span-wire traffic signals are vulnerable to extreme wind events such as hurricanes and thunderstorms. In past events in the Southeastern Coast of the United States, many failures of span-wire traffic signals were reported.
Ziad Azzi +9 more
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Leveraging Informal Learning Pedagogies to Empower Coastal Communities for Disaster Preparedness
Frontiers in Built Environment, 2022 With the increasing frequency and intensity of hurricanes, people and communities within hurricane-prone zones are often overwhelmed and lack effective preparedness in terms of social connectivity critical for making proactive decisions to survive ...
Piyush Pradhananga +2 more
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Role of eyewall and rainband eddy forcing in tropical cyclone intensification [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2019 While turbulence is commonly regarded as a flow feature pertaining to the planetary boundary layer (PBL), intense turbulent mixing generated by cloud processes also exists above the PBL in the eyewall and rainbands of a tropical cyclone (TC).
P. Zhu +8 more
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Latin American Studies on Disaster Risk Reduction in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos sobre Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres, 2020 Practically no government, institution or community has remained indifferent to the COVID-19 pandemic. This crisis has been pointed out in many places as a 'disaster'.
Adriana Allen +2 more
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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023 There is increasing evidence that fossil-fuel burning, and consequential global heating of 1.1°C to date, has led to the increased occurrence and severity of extreme environmental events.
Martin J. Siegert +15 more
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Estimating heat-related mortality in near real time for national heatwave plans
Environmental Research Letters, 2022 Heatwaves are a serious threat to human life. Public health agencies that are responsible for delivering heat-health action plans need to assess and reduce the mortality impacts of heat.
Y T Eunice Lo +4 more
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Atmosphere, 2023 Compound extreme events can potentially cause deadlier socio-economic consequences. Although several studies focused on individual extreme climate events, the occurrence of compound extreme events is still not well studied in the upper Midwestern United ...
Manas Khan, Rabin Bhattarai, Liang Chen
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Measuring User Satisfaction for the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure Consortium
Frontiers in Built Environment, 2020 The User Forum is a Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI)-wide group focused on providing the NHERI Council with independent advice on community user satisfaction, priorities, and needs relating to the use and capabilities of NHERI.
Mohammad Khosravi +7 more
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