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A Study on the Impact of Natural Disasters on Farmers’ Relative Poverty

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Time Limit of the Probabilistic Risk for Natural Disaster [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response (JRACR), 2017
Since natural disaster risk is a feature of the future and is also dynamic, the result of probabilistic risk analysis for natural disaster has its own time limit.
Jun Guo, Chongfu Huang
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Modeling Water Quality Parameters Using Landsat Multispectral Images: A Case Study of Erlong Lake, Northeast China

open access: yesRemote 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 disaster: Earthquake

open access: yesEnvironment 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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The Effect of the Wenchuan and Lushan Earthquakes on the Size Distribution of Earthquakes along the Longmenshan Fault

open access: yesApplied 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]

open access: yesEuropean 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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Similarity Calculation of Sudden Natural Disaster Cases with Fused Case Hierarchy—Taking Storm Surge Disasters as Examples

open access: yesJournal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022
Sudden natural disasters have the characteristics of complexity, unpredictability and frequency. To better manage and analyze sudden natural disasters promptly with the help of historical natural disaster cases, this study adopts the method of fused case
Cheng Cheng   +3 more
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Flood Risk Assessment of Subway Systems in Metropolitan Areas under Land Subsidence Scenario: A Case Study of Beijing

open access: yesRemote 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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Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Variations of the Near-Surface Wind Regime and Their Influencing Factors in the Badain Jaran Desert, China

open access: yesAtmosphere, 2022
Wind regime is one of the main natural factors controlling the evolution and distribution of aeolian sand landforms, and sand drift potential (DP) is usually used to study the capacity of aeolian sand transport.
Ziying Hu   +13 more
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Research Progress on Effects of Thermokarst Lakes on Soil Carbon and Microbial Community

open access: yesShuitu baochi tongbao, 2022
[Objective] The impacts of thermokarst lakes formed by rapid thawing and collapsing of permafrost on soil carbon and microorganisms were studied in order to provide a reference for the study of ecological environment and greenhouse gas emissions in such ...
Zhao Yunduo   +3 more
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