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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2020 Likert scales are a common methodological tool for data collection used in quantitative or mixed-method approaches in multiple domains. They are often employed in surveys or questionnaires, for benchmarking answers in the fields of disaster risk ...
Gianluca Pescaroli +5 more
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The need to integrate flood and drought disaster risk reduction strategies
Water Security, 2020 Most research on hydrological risks focuses either on flood risk or drought risk, whilst floods and droughts are two extremes of the same hydrological cycle.
P. Ward +24 more
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Politics and Governance, 2020 Scholars and practitioners are increasingly questioning formal disaster governance (FDG) approaches as being too rigid, slow, and command-and-control driven. Too often, local realities and non-formal influences are sidelined or ignored to the extent that
Patrizia Isabelle Duda +2 more
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Situational Analysis on Voluntary Counseling and Confidential Testing in HIV/AIDS Patients Referred to Behavioral Center in lmam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran, Iran [PDF]
International Journal of Epidemiologic Research, 2018 Background and aims: Behavioral counseling centers are the main health organizations which are responsible for providing treatment and care for the patients living with HIV (PLWH). HIVpositive patients receive services through a unique counseling process
Mahbobeh Hajabdolbaghi +6 more
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Alternatives for sustained disaster risk reduction [PDF]
, 2010 The daily media is filled with images of catastrophic events which seem increasingly frequent and violent In parallel there are a large range of scientific studies debates in the policy arena, and a growing number of international institutions focused on
Benouar, Djillali +19 more
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2020 Expert scientific knowledge is fast becoming an integral part of disaster management, and, in the process, is changing the role of science for the reduction of disaster risks at the policy level.
Kristoffer Albris, K. Lauta, E. Raju
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Reflections on the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction: Five Years Since Its Adoption
International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2020 Five years ago, on 18 March 2015, member states of the United Nations (UN) adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 (United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015) in Sendai, Japan, a city still recovering from the ...
Mami Mizutori
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Risk reduction and diversification in UK commercial property portfolios [PDF]
, 2007 The issue of diversification in direct real estate investment portfolios has been one of the most widely studied topics in academic and practitioner literature.
Callender, Mark +3 more
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A General Overview of the Risk-Reduction Strategies for Floods and Droughts
Sustainability, 2020 Water is a limited resource but essential to sustaining life and supporting economic development. Only 2.5% of all the water on Earth is freshwater and can be used to meet basic human needs such as a clean supply of water for drinking, cooking, and ...
Tsun-Hua Yang, Wen‐Cheng Liu
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Local governance in disaster risk reduction in Cameroon
Jàmbá, 2012 At the 2005 World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction held in Hyogo, Japan, 168 countries including Cameroon adopted the Hyogo Framework for Action, committing to take action to reduce human and socio-economic disaster losses.
Buh-Wung Gaston +3 more
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