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Carbon Balance and Management, 2023 Background The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the “sensitive area” of climate change, and also the “driver” and “amplifier” of global change. The response and feedback of its carbon dynamics to climate change will significantly affect the content of greenhouse
Jingyu Zeng +8 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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Natural disasters: blessings in disguise? [PDF]
, 2011 This study examines the impact of natural disasters on market returns and on several industries that are likely to be affected by the disasters. We find that different natural disasters have different impacts on the returns of the market and on those of ...
Koerniadi, Hardjo +2 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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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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Ecotone, 2017 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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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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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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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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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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