Humanitarian Action and Glocalism
Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2022 João Casqueira Cardoso +1 more
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AERIAL LiDAR TECHNOLOGY IN SUPPORT TO AVALANCHES PREVENTION AND RISK MITIGATION: AN OPERATIVE APPLICATION AT “COLLE DELLA MADDALENA” (ITALY) [PDF]
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2020 Snow avalanches are the result of unstable snow masses that detach from steep slopes as consequence of changes in snowpack structure. Nowadays, remote sensing technologies can improve the knowledge of avalanches phenomenon.
P. Boccardo +4 more
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Social capital undergirds coping strategies: evidence from two informal settlements in Nairobi
Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 2022 Understanding the nature and scope of existing social capital is essential to building the resilience of people living in vulnerable urban settings. This paper explores the question of how aid organisations can better utilise social capital to build the ...
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Affordability of an NGO-government partnership for community-based disability rehabilitation
African Journal of Disability, 2023 Background: Tunafasi is a community-based rehabilitation (CBR) programme for persons with disability, implemented by a local non-governmental organisation in Uvira, Democratic Republic of Congo, in partnership with government. To assess affordability and
Kelsey R. Vaughan, Ram K. Thapa
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Rapid Damage Estimation of Texas Winter Storm Uri from Social Media Using Deep Neural Networks
Urban Science, 2022 The winter storm Uri that occurred in February 2021 affected many regions in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. The State of Texas was severely impacted due to the failure in the electricity supply infrastructure compounded by its limited ...
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Humanitarian Action and Military Intervention: Temptations and Possibilities. [PDF]
, 2004 Although the war in Liberia in July 2003 claimed hundreds of lives, the international community was reluctant to intervene. In this article, the author debates the question: does international military intervention equal protection of populations?
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Social capital in vulnerable urban settings: an analytical framework
Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 2018 Social capital has been identified as crucial to the fostering of resilience in rapidly expanding cities of the Global South. The purpose of this article is to better understand the complexities of urban social interaction and how such interaction can ...
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Evaluating humanitarian action [PDF]
Annuaire suisse de politique de développement, 1999 This article draws heavily on the draft "Guidance for Evaluation Managers" which will be published by the DAC Working Party on Aid Evaluation in 1999 and on a report on the findings of a AusAid supported workshop at the National Centre for Development Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, March 1998 (Apthorpe and Neville 1998), in both of ...
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Accountability in Humanitarian Action [PDF]
Refugee Survey Quarterly, 2021 Abstract Although a growing number of NGOs are combining humanitarian and development activities, it was long the case that humanitarian action was isolated from discussions and practices in the world of development. The work of saving lives was deemed to be guided solely by the humanitarian principles, and discussions on accountability ...
Dorothea Hilhorst +3 more
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Rethinking the Origins of Transnational Humanitarian Organizations: The Curious Case of the International Shipwreck Society [PDF]
, 2018 By exploring the evolution of the International Shipwreck Society (ISS) – a previously neglected transnational humanitarian organization encompassing branches in every continent by the late 1830s – this article sheds new light on three key aspects of the
Davies, T. R.
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