Exposure Outliers: Children, Mothers, and Cumulative Disaster Exposure in Louisiana [PDF]
, 2019 Only a limited number of studies have explored the effects of cumulative disaster exposure—defined here as multiple, acute onset, large-scale collective events that cause disruption for individuals, families, and entire communities.
Mohammad, Lubna, Peek, Lori
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Identifying hotspots and management of critical ecosystem services in rapidly urbanizing Yangtze River Delta Region, China [PDF]
, 2017 Rapid urbanization has altered many ecosystems, causing a decline in many ecosystem services, generating serious ecological crisis. To cope with these challenges, we presented a comprehensive framework comprising five core steps for identifying and ...
Cai, Wenbo +4 more
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Research progress on the equivalent-barotropic shear type Meiyu front heavyrain
暴雨灾害, 2019 Meiyu front rainstorm is the main meteorological disaster over the Yangtze River basin during summer, which has always been a hot topic and difficult problem in meteorological research.
Chunguang CUI +4 more
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Evolution of natural risk: research framework and perspectives [PDF]
, 2005 International audienceThis study presents a conceptual framework for addressing temporal variation in natural risk. Numerous former natural risk analyses and investigations have demonstrated that time and related changes have a crucial influence on risk.
Crozier, M., Glade, T., Hufschmidt, G.
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Urbanisation and landslides:hazard drivers and better practices [PDF]
, 2016 Rapid unplanned urbanisation is driving increasing rainfall-triggered landslide risk in low-income communities in tropical developing countries. Conventional slope stabilisation techniques are often unaffordable and most disaster-risk-reduction funding ...
Beesley, Mair +3 more
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The Izmir City and Natural Hazard Risks [PDF]
Turkey has many geological disadvantages such as sitting on top of active tectonic plate boundaries, and why having avalanche, flood, and landslide and drought prone areas.
Ahmet Kivanc Kutluca
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Large scale debris-flow hazard assessment: a geotechnical approach and GIS modelling
, 2003 International audienceA deterministic distributed model has been developed for large-scale debris-flow hazard analysis in the basin of River Vezza (Tuscany Region ? Italy). This area (51.6 km 2 ) was affected by over 250 landslides. These were classified
Delmonaco, G. +4 more
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Disaster Vulnerability and Resilience of Urban Residents: A Case of Rainstorm Disaster Risk Management in Bida, Nigeria [PDF]
, 2014 Rainstorm disaster is one of the challenges facing a growing number of settlements in Nigeria. Either in rural or urban centres, this environmental catastrophe, has become a recurring and increasingly formidable disaster negatively affecting socio ...
Kawu, Aliyu, Mohammed, Maikudi
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The data gap: An analysis of data availability on disaster losses in sub-Saharan African cities [PDF]
, 2016 Urban centres in sub-Saharan Africa are increasingly affected by disasters as well as smaller, everyday hazards. Decision-makers in the region require better information about urban disaster impacts to plan how best to use their resources to reduce risks
Brown, D, Johnson, C, Osuteye, E
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Design of weather-based claiming index for early rice "Dragon Boat Rain" disaster insurance
暴雨灾害, 2019 Based on daily precipitation data between May and June during 1960-2016, early rice yield data during 1983-2016 in the whole province and municipalities, and disaster data during 1994-2016 in Guangdong province, this paper presents a design method of ...
Zhenzhu HUANG +4 more
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