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Atmosphere, 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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The Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index Volume I - State of Disaster Resilience Report [PDF]
, 2020 Australian communities face increasing losses and disruption from natural disasters. Disaster resilience is a protective characteristic that acts to reduce the effects of, and losses from, natural hazard events.
Parsons, Melissa +8 more
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Building Disaster Resilience within the Emirati Energy Sector through a Comprehensive Strategic Mitigation Plan [PDF]
, 2013 Disasters, both natural and man-made, have been occurring with increasing frequency and effect in recent decades in many countries around the world. Such threats have been shown to result in a loss of life, property and income and all of which have an ...
Khaili, K. +2 more
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The Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index Volume II - Index Design and Computation [PDF]
, 2020 Australian communities face increasing losses and disruption from natural disasters. Disaster resilience is a protective characteristic that acts to reduce the effects of, and losses from, natural hazard events.
Parsons, Melissa +8 more
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Natural Disaster Risk Monitoring for Immovable Cultural Relics Based on Digital Twin [PDF]
Journal of Geodesy and Geoinformation ScienceNatural 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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Journal 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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Research Progress on Effects of Thermokarst Lakes on Soil Carbon and Microbial Community
Shuitu 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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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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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 +4 more
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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 +11 more
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