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Disaster Risk Reduction in the Built Environment in Sri Lanka- An overview [PDF]
, 2013 Natural disasters have long-term implications on sustainable development. They mainly destroy the built environment thereby hindering economic and social development, and causing environment degradation.
Amaratunga, Dilanthi +2 more
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Disaster risk reduction measures n Bangladesh [PDF]
, 2012 Disasters damage the entire economy of the country when they predominantly take place in developing countries. While no country in the world is entirely safe, lack of capacity to limit the impact of hazards has made developing countries being the most ...
Parvez, A. +4 more
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Remote Sensing, 2021 Erlong Lake is considered one of the largest lakes in midwest Jilin, China, and one of the drinking water resources in neighboring cities. The present study aims to explore the usage of Landsat TM5, ETM7, and OLI8 images to assess water quality (V-phenol,
Bazel Al-Shaibah +8 more
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Natural disasters and the lung [PDF]
Respirology, 2011 ABSTRACTAs the world population expands, an increasing number of people are living in areas which may be threatened by natural disasters. Most of these major natural disasters occur in the Asian region. Pulmonary complications are common following natural disasters and can result from direct insults to the lung or may be indirect, secondary to ...
Bruce, Robinson +3 more
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A Study on the Impact of Natural Disasters on Farmers’ Relative Poverty
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 In 2020, China announced the successful completion of its poverty alleviation mission, noting that the focus of China’s poverty alleviation mission has shifted from eliminating absolute poverty to alleviating relative poverty.
XiJian Li, JiaXi Zheng, Honggang Lu
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Environment Conservation Journal, 2008 A disaster is the impact of a natural or man- made hazard that unconstructively affects society or environment.Earthquakes are most destructing among all the known disasters as their prediction is not yet possible. Depending
Pankaj Srivastava +4 more
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Applied Sciences, 2021 Changes in the stress state of faults and their surroundings is a highly plausible mechanism explaining earthquake interaction. These stress changes can impact the seismicity rate and the size distribution of earthquakes.
Chun Hui +6 more
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Children and natural disasters [PDF]
European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2018 The number of children affected by natural disasters each year is alarmingly high and can be expected to rise as climate change continues. The mental consequences have been documented not only in the rates of post-traumatic stress symptoms and post-traumatic stress disorder, but also for depression and other mental health problems.
Atle Dyregrov +2 more
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Remote Sensing, 2021 Flooding is one of the most destructive natural events that severely damage the ground and inundate underground infrastructure. Subway systems in metropolitan areas are susceptible to flooding, which may be exacerbated when land subsidence occurs ...
Guangpeng Wang +9 more
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Post-tsunami road reconstruction in Sri Lanka: Efficacy of mainstreaming disaster risk reduction [PDF]
, 2013 Following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami all roads in the affected areas in Sri Lanka were inaccessible during the immediate aftermath of the disaster either due to the damages they sustained or poor networking of roads and lack of contingency planning ...
Palliyaguru, Roshani +2 more
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