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Jàmbá, 2020 Smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are at a greater risk to the impacts of climate variability. We therefore sought to assess vulnerability of smallholder sorghum farmers to climate variability in Kigezi highlands of south-western Uganda.
Frank Mugagga +3 more
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An overview on seismic analysis of masonry building aggregates
Frontiers in Built Environment, 2022 Conservation of historical centres is a pressing need for Mediterranean countries, that are characterized by masonry aggregates representing the most typical construction type within cities.
Antonio Formisano, Naida Ademovic
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Mangrove vulnerability index using GIS [PDF]
AIP Conference Proceedings, 2018 Climate change, particularly its associated sea level rise, is major threat to mangrove coastal areas, and it is essential to develop ways to reduce vulnerability through strategic management planning. Environmental vulnerability can be understood as a function of exposure to impacts and the sensitivity and adaptive capacity of ecological systems ...
Mohd Zulkifli Mohd Yunus +2 more
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Covid-19 Economic Vulnerability Index: EU Evidence
Procedia Computer Science, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak caused many negative effects on both the global and national economies. To implement effective policies to mitigate the negative impact of a pandemic, it is necessary to identify particularly vulnerable areas. The objective of this paper is to rank the EU countries in terms of the level of vulnerability of their economies
Brzyska, Joanna, Szamrej-Baran, Izabela
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Study of Integrated Social Vulnerability Index SoVIint of Hilly Region of Uttarakhand, India
Environmental and Climate Technologies, 2020 The hilly regions of India have suffered many disasters, both natural and anthropogenic. In the hilly state like Uttarakhand, the hazards like flash flood, forest fires, and landslide affect the community at the large scale.
Kumar Dilip, Kumar Bhattacharjya Rajib
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An Approach for the Validation of a Coastal Erosion Vulnerability Index: An Application in Sicily
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 In recent decades, coastal erosion phenomena have increased due to climate change. The increased frequency and intensity of extreme events and the poor sediment supply by anthropized river basins (dams, river weirs, culverts, etc.) have a crucial role in
Giorgio Manno +6 more
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Journal of Degraded and Mining Lands Management, 2018 Environmental and climate changes are among the serious threats to the world’s land resources in the 21st Century. Particularly, in the developing countries the impact inevitably goes as the continuing toll on agricultural production, human lives, and ...
Menberu Teshome
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BuildingsThe analysis of the vulnerability of vernacular buildings to climatic hazards is nowadays a subject of significant importance due to the consequences of climate change.
Modeste Yaovi Awoussi +4 more
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Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, 2021 Contingency analysis is an important building block in the stability and reliability analysis of power grid operations. However, due to the large number of transmission lines, in practice only a limited number of contingencies could be evaluated.
Lu Nan +4 more
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Cogent Food & AgricultureEthiopia is frequently mentioned as a country that is extremely vulnerable to climate change. The country’s high vulnerability is mostly from its climate-sensitive agricultural sectors.
Daniel Dalle +2 more
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