Considering Vulnerability in Disaster Risk Reduction Plans: From Policy to Practice in Ladakh, India
Mountain Research and Development, 2015 In Ladakh, India, a mountainous region prone to natural hazards, particularly floods, it is critical to adapt disaster risk reduction (DRR) measures to the local environment.
Virginie Le Masson
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GeoHazards, 2021 The mountainous Pacific Northwest is prone to heavy winter rainfall, resulting in hundreds of landslides per year, human casualties, and billions of dollars of property damage.
Zhong Lu, Jinwoo Kim
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Unemployment Benefits and the Duration of Unemployment in East Germany [PDF]
, 2003 This paper studies the impact of unemployment benefits on unemployment duration for East Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. It concentrates on exit from unemployment into employment. Estimation results of a discrete-time hazard rate
Wolff, J.
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Self-Medication: potential risks and hazards among pregnant women in Uyo, Nigeria
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2012 INTRODUCTION: There is increasing evidence that self-medications among pregnant women are common in many developing countries. Despite the adverse impact on pregnancy, there are few programs available for their control. The objective of this study was to
Festus Abasiubong +5 more
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Partial Orders with Respect to Continuous Covariates and Tests for the Proportional Hazards Model [PDF]
, 2008 Several omnibus tests of the proportional hazards assumption have been proposed in the literature. In the two-sample case, tests have also been developed against ordered alternatives like monotone hazard ratio and monotone ratio of cumulative hazards ...
Bhattacharjee, Arnab
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Foodborne disease hazards and burden in Ethiopia: A systematic literature review, 1990–2019
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023 BackgroundFoodborne disease (FBD) affects millions of people each year, posing a health burden similar to malaria, tuberculosis or HIV. A recent World Bank study estimated the productivity losses alone attributed to unsafe food within Africa at $20 ...
Lina Gazu +16 more
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Ecological vulnerability of the Densu river Basin due to land use change and climate variability
Cogent Engineering, 2020 Ecological hazards such as floods, drought and poor water quality remain notable disparaging natural catastrophes of climate variability in West Africa.
Samuel Anim Ofosu +2 more
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Water Policy, 2023 The impact of floods on households in Uganda is becoming increasingly severe. It is often assumed that people who reside in a riverine area have adapted to flood pulses. However, in most cases, household-level risk reduction strategies are inadequate for
Godwin Erima +5 more
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Hazard and risk assessment for indirect potable reuse schemes: An approach for use in developing Water Safety Plans [PDF]
, 2010 This is the post-print version of the final paper published in Water Research. The published article is available from the link below. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and ...
Angelina Dominguez-Chicas +27 more
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Advances in Risk Assessment and Early Warning Techniques of Rice Quality and Safety
Liang you shipin ke-ji, 2023 Rice quality and safety is important for achieving national food security and social stability. Rice has been contaminated with heavy metals, pesticide residues, and fungal toxins, which has affected the healthy development of China’s rice industry and ...
WANG Yin +5 more
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