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Natural Disaster Risk Monitoring for Immovable Cultural Relics Based on Digital Twin [PDF]

Journal of Geodesy and Geoinformation Science
Natural disaster risk monitoring is an important task for disaster prevention and reduction. In the case of immovable cultural relics, however, the feedback mechanism, risk factors, monitoring logic, and monitoring indicators of natural disaster risk ...
Bolun LI, Youqiang DONG, Yunfei QIAO, Miaole HOU, Caihuan WEN
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Impact of Expansion Pattern of Built-Up Land in Floodplains on Flood Vulnerability: A Case Study in the North China Plain Area

Remote Sensing, 2020
Built-up land in floodplains (BLF) is a driver and a disaster-bearing body of flood risk from a socio-hydrological perspective. The relationship between BLF growth and flood vulnerability is the key to understanding and managing flood risk.
Guangpeng Wang, Ziying Hu, Yong Liu, Guoming Zhang, Jifu Liu, Yanli Lyu, Yu Gu, Xichen Huang, Qingyan Zhang, Zongze Tong, Chang Hong, Lianyou Liu   +11 more
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A Dilemma of Language: “Natural Disasters” in Academic Literature

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2019
For decades sections of the academic community have been emphasizing that disasters are not natural. Nevertheless, politicians, the media, various international organizations—and, more surprisingly, many established researchers working in disaster ...
Ksenia Chmutina, Jason von Meding
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Challenges in Creating a Disaster Resilient Built Environment [PDF]

, 2014
With the increase in occurrences of high impact disasters, the concept of risk reduction and resilience is widely recognised. Recent disasters have highlighted the exposure of urban cities to natural disasters and emphasised the need of making cities ...
AFP, Albrito, Bosher, Dainty, Dubbeling, Georgieva, Godschalk, Haigh, Haigh, Kapucu, Kreimer, Malalgoda, Malalgoda, Mannakkara, Manyena, Manyena, McAllister, Neil, O’Keefe, Pelling, PWC, Quarantelli, UN ESCAP, AIT, UN-ISDR, UN-ISDR, UN-ISDR, Voogd, Wamsler   +27 more
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How to Prepare Disaster Mitigation Knowledge for Prospective Teachers in Elementary School?

Al-Ishlah: Jurnal Pendidikan, 2021
Knowledge of disaster mitigation is one of the must-have primary school teacher candidates. The research tries to identify the knowledge of prospective elementary school teachers about natural, non-natural, and social disaster mitigation.
Eddy Noviana, Otang Kurniaman, Nugraheti Sismulyasih Sb, Sri Dewi Nirmala, Ratna Sari Dewi   +4 more
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Assessing the Intensity of the Population Affected by a Complex Natural Disaster Using Social Media Data

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2019
Complex natural disasters often cause people to suffer hardships, and they can cause a large number of casualties. A population that has been affected by a natural disaster is at high risk and desperately in need of help.
Changxiu Cheng, Ting Zhang, Kai Su, Peichao Gao, Shi Shen   +4 more
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Activities of the Local Government During a State of Natural Disaster

Studia Iuridica Lublinensia, 2021
As one of the states of exception, a state of a natural disaster often makes public administration, including local governments, take actions that restrict the sphere of human rights and civil liberties.
Małgorzata Czuryk
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Disaster Resilience Education and Research Roadmap for Europe 2030 : ANDROID Report [PDF]

, 2015
A disaster resilience education and research roadmap for Europe 2030 has been launched. This roadmap represents an important output of the ANDROID disaster resilience network, bringing together existing literature in the field, as well as the results of ...
Amaratunga, Dilanthi, Faber, M., Haigh, Richard, Indirli, M., Kaklauskas, Arturas, Lill, I., Perdikou, S., Perera, S., Rochas, C., Sparf, J., Thayaparan, Menaha, Velazquez, J.   +11 more
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Different Flooding Behaviors Due to Varied Urbanization Levels within River Basin: A Case Study from the Xiang River Basin, China

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2018
Booming urbanization due to a fast-growing population results in more impervious areas, less infiltration, and hence greater flood peak and runoff. Clear understanding of flood responses in regions with different levels and expansions of urbanization is ...
Juan Du, Linlin Cheng, Qiang Zhang, Yumeng Yang, Wei Xu   +4 more
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Microfluidic active pressure and flow stabiliser

Scientific Reports, 2021
In microfluidics, a well-known challenge is to obtain reproducible results, often constrained by unstable pressures or flow rates. Today, there are existing stabilisers made for low-pressure microfluidics or high-pressure macrofluidics, often consisting ...
Simon Södergren, Karolina Svensson, Klas Hjort   +2 more
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