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Constructing a holistic approach to disaster risk reduction: the significance of focusing on vulnerability reduction [PDF]

, 2013
As a result of the increase in natural disaster losses, policy-makers, practitioners, and members of the research community around the world are seeking effective and efficient means of overcoming or minimising them.
Baldry, David, Palliyaguru, Roshani, Amaratunga, Dilanthi, Baldry, D, Palliyaguru, R, Amaratunga, RDG   +5 more
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Disaster literacy and preparedness among nursing students in earthquake-affected Turkey: a cross-sectional study

BMC Nursing
Aim This study aims to assess nursing students’ natural disaster literacy and disaster preparedness levels and to explore the relationship between these factors.
Türkan Karaca, Nilay Ercan Sahin
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Comprehensive Risk Assessment of Farmer Households in Flood and Earthquake Prone Areas Based on Multidimensional Information Diffusion Model

Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response (JRACR)
In recent years, the global practice of regional natural disaster reduction and comprehensive risk prevention has promoted the integration of multiple disciplines, and the theory and technology of comprehensive risk assessment for multiple natural ...
Xiao-jun Pan, Xi Zhang, Pei-huan Li, Cheng-yi Pu   +3 more
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On the nature of man and disaster.

Critical care (London, England), 2006
Unique among animals, humans survive not by superb physical adaptation to our environment, but rather by intelligent, large-scale adaptation of the environment to our needs. We build houses with climate control systems that mimic the environment of sub-Saharan Africa.
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Natural disasters and the economy [PDF]

Review of Regional Research, 2020
Faggian, Alessandra, Modica, Marco
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Creating insurance markets for natural disaster risk in lower income countries: the potential role for securitization [PDF]

This paper considers the potential for securitizing index-based insurance products that transfer weather and natural disaster risks from lower income countries.
Murphy, Anne G., Skees, Jerry R., Barnett, Barry J.   +2 more
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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 ...
Chamindi Malalgoda, Amaratunga, Dilanthi, Richard Haigh, Haigh, Richard, Malalgoda, Chamindi, Dilanthi Amaratunga   +5 more
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Experimental investigation into effects of material and energy regulation of debris flow by using check dams with different porosities

Frontiers in Earth Science
The design of check dam openings for debris flow control has been identified as a longstanding challenge, with no definitive solution yet identified. In this study, a quantitative analysis of the control efficacy of check dams with varying opening rates ...
Jinyan Huang, Xingrong Liu, Zuoxiong Zhang, Jinxia Zhang, Yanjie Ma, Qirun Li, Yukun Wang, Yapen An   +7 more
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Detection of the spatial patterns of water storage variation over China in recent 70 years

Scientific Reports, 2017
Terrestrial water storage (TWS) variation is crucial for global hydrological cycles and water resources management under climatic changes. In the previous studies, changes in water storage of some part of China have been studied with GRACE data in recent
Zheng Chen, Weiguo Jiang, Jianjun Wu, Kun Chen, Yue Deng, Kai Jia, Xinyu Mo   +6 more
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Economic development perspectives of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction: Post-tsunami reconstruction in Sri Lanka [PDF]

Sri Lanka was found to be a disaster prone country in the recent past. The impact is more severe when developing countries are faced to various natural or man-made disasters.
Amaratunga, Dilanthi, Haigh, Richard, Palliyaguru, R. S.   +2 more
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