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Extreme Drought in the Brazilian Pantanal in 2019–2020: Characterization, Causes, and Impacts
The Pantanal region in South America is one of the world's largest wetlands. Since 2019, the Pantanal has suffered a prolonged drought that has spelled disaster for the region, and subsequent fires have engulfed hundreds of thousands of hectares.
Jose A. Marengo +19 more
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The health burden of natural and technological disasters in Brazil from 2013 to 2021 [PDF]
Disasters deeply impact the health of the affected population and the economy of a country. The health burden of disasters in Brazil is underestimated and more studies are needed to underpin policies and actions for disaster risk reduction.
Abner Willian Quintino de Freitas +2 more
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The rapidly warming climate on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) leads to permafrost degradation, and the thawing of ice-rich permafrost induces land subsidence to facilitate the development of thermokarst lakes.
Rui Wang +7 more
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Building national people-centered early warning systems (EWS) is strongly recommended by the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR).
Victor Marchezini +5 more
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ISO Cluster classifier by ArcGIS for unsupervised classification of the Landsat TM image of Reykjavík [PDF]
The paper presents the use of the Landsat TM image processed by the ArcGIS Spatial Analyst Tool for environmental mapping of southwestern Iceland, region of Reykjavik.
Lemenkova Polina
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Natural disasters are the result of a hazard overwhelming highly vulnerable community, often resulting in mortality and morbidity. Over the past decade, over 300 natural disasters occur yearly around the world affecting millions and cost billions.
Prasad, Abhaya S. +1 more
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Evaluation of the economic costs and benefits of flood disaster risk management projects is crucial. However, current cost-benefit analyses (CBA) often lack reliable estimates of the expected loss reduction from flood control measures and ignore ...
Peng Zeng +3 more
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We should pay more attention to the community context in the disaster management: lessons learned from the first days after the Khoy earthquake [PDF]
Dear Editor-in-Chief On January 28, the city of Khoy (the northwest of Iran) was struck by a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 on the Richter scale at 21:44:44 and a depth of 7 km, X: 45.01 and Y: 38.05 (1).
Ehsan Rhikhtegar, Behrouz Fathi
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Worldwide disaster loss and damage databases: A systematic review
Nowadays, disaster databases have become a valuable tool for disaster risk management and health promotion and serve various purposes. The purpose of this study is to provide a systematic review of disaster databases in the world and to identify the ...
Sadegh Ahmadi Mazhin +7 more
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Okinawa Trough geophysical and topographic modeling by GDAL utilities and GRASS GIS [PDF]
This paper presents using GDAL utilities and GRASS GIS for topographic analysis of the raster grids based on GEBCO DEM as NetCDF file at 15 arc-second intervals.
Lemenkova Polina
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