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Extreme Drought in the Brazilian Pantanal in 2019–2020: Characterization, Causes, and Impacts
Frontiers in Water, 2021 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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Natural disasters and the lung [PDF]
Respirology, 2011 ABSTRACTAs the world population expands, an increasing number of people are living in areas which may be threatened by natural disasters. Most of these major natural disasters occur in the Asian region. Pulmonary complications are common following natural disasters and can result from direct insults to the lung or may be indirect, secondary to ...
Bruce, Robinson +3 more
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The health burden of natural and technological disasters in Brazil from 2013 to 2021 [PDF]
Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2023 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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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2017 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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Remote Sensing, 2023 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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Okinawa Trough geophysical and topographic modeling by GDAL utilities and GRASS GIS [PDF]
Podzemni Radovi, 2021 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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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2023 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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Worldwide disaster loss and damage databases: A systematic review
Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 2021 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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We should pay more attention to the community context in the disaster management: lessons learned from the first days after the Khoy earthquake [PDF]
Health Science Monitor, 2023 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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ISO Cluster classifier by ArcGIS for unsupervised classification of the Landsat TM image of Reykjavík [PDF]
Bulletin of Natural Sciences Research, 2021 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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