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The Impact of Financing a Resilient Mining Infrastructure on the Economic Growth of Africa: A Systematic Review [PDF]
CECCAR Business ReviewThis paper appraises the impact of financing a resilient mining infrastructure on the economic growth of Africa. It applied a systematic review of the literature approach.
Shadreck NHORITO
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‘InfraRivChange’: a web application to monitor river migration at sites of critical bridge infrastructure in the Philippines [PDF]
, 2023 Shifting rivers, particularly with high migration rates, represent a geomorphic hazard at sites of critical bridge infrastructure. Conventional attempts to map and measure shifts in the position of river channels usually requires the manual digitization ...
Hoey, TB, Williams, RD, Boothroyd, RJ
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Empowering local governments to make a disaster resilient built environment within Sri Lankan Cities [PDF]
, 2013 Urban areas are growing very rapidly all over the world, particularly in developing countries. As a result of rapid urbanisation, the world’s population is increasingly concentrated in large cities leading to unplanned urban development with ...
Amaratunga, Dilanthi +2 more
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Challenges in Creating a Disaster Resilient Built Environment [PDF]
, 2014 With the increase in occurrences of high impact disasters, the concept of risk reduction and resilience is widely recognised. Recent disasters have highlighted the exposure of urban cities to natural disasters and emphasised the need of making cities ...
Chamindi Malalgoda +5 more
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Frontiers in Built Environment, 2017 The widespread brittle failure of welded beam-to-column connections caused by the 1994 Northridge and 1995 Kobe earthquakes highlighted the need for retrofitting measures effective in reducing the strength demand imposed on connections under cyclic ...
Daniel Tomas Naughton +3 more
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A disaster resilient built environment in urban cities [PDF]
, 2015 – This research aims at making recommendations to empower the Sri Lankan local governments in creating a disaster resilient built environment. Disasters make a huge impact on the built environment.
Amaratunga, Dilanthi +4 more
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Autonomous, scalable, and resilient overlay infrastructure [PDF]
Journal of Communications and Networks, 2006 Many distributed applications build overlays on top of the Internet. Several unsolved issues at the network layer can explain this trend to implement network services such as multicast, mobility, and security at the application layer. On one hand, overlays creating basic topologies are usually limited in flexibility and scalability.
Khaldoon Shami +2 more
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Critical Infrastructures, Protection and Resilience [PDF]
, 2016 This chapter introduces the concept of Critical Infrastructure (CI). Although old civilisations had CI, the protection and resilience of CI has come to the fore again in the last two decades. The risk to society due to inadvertent and deliberate CI disruptions has largely increased due to interrelation, complexity, and dependencies of these ...
Setola, R. +2 more
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Empowering local governments to make disaster resilient cities [PDF]
Disasters either natural or man-made cause a significant impact to the entire world. The occurrence of natural disasters has increased significantly in the recent past resulting a higher number of mortalities and economic and social losses.
Amaratunga, Dilanthi +2 more
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Automatic DEM-infused 2D to 3D LoD1 Urban Morphology Python Framework [PDF]
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information SciencesThe generation of 3D urban morphology models from 2D urban morphology maps has been widely explored. Traditional methods use modelling software, such as Rhino, which lack georeferencing, elevation, and automation.
O. Yasser +4 more
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