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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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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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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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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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Climatic Change, 2021 The frequency and intensity of natural disasters such as hurricanes, wildfires, and floods are predicted to change as greenhouse gas concentrations increase.
M. R. Sloggy +4 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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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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The effect of natural disasters on economic activity in US counties: A century of data
Journal of Urban Economics, 2020 More than 100 natural disasters strike the United States every year, causing extensive fatalities and damages. We construct the universe of US federally designated natural disasters from 1920 to 2010.
L. Boustan +3 more
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