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Assessment of the Physical Vulnerability of Vernacular Architecture to Meteorological Hazards Using an Indicator-Based Approach: The Case of the Kara Region in Northern Togo

Buildings
The 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, Eugene Kodzo Anani Domtse, Komlan Déla Gake, Paolo Vincenzo Genovese, Yao Dziwonou   +4 more
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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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Navigating dynamics of farm household livelihood vulnerability to climate-related risks in southern Ethiopia: An agroecology-based comparative analysis

Cogent Food & Agriculture
Ethiopia 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, Yishak Gecho, Sisay Belay Bedeke   +2 more
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Rural communities’ vulnerability to farmland poverty in varied ecological settings of northwest Ethiopia

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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Vulnerability of smallholder sorghum farmers to climate variability in a heterogeneous landscape of south-western Uganda

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, Noeline Nakanjakko, Bob Nakileza, Denis Nseka   +3 more
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Vulnerability of rural households to climate-induced shocks in Lokka Abaya district, Sidama zone, southern Ethiopia

Jàmbá, 2021
This study was conducted in rural communities of Lokka Abaya district, Sidama zone, southern Ethiopia to assess vulnerability status of men and women households to climate-induced shocks and stress.
Muluken Mekuyie
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Targeting attention on local vulnerabilities using an integrated index approach: the example of the climate vulnerability index

Water Science and Technology, 2005
It is known that climate impacts can have significant effects on the environment, societies and economies. For human populations, climate change impacts can be devastating, giving rise to economic disruption and mass migration as agricultural systems fail, either through drought or floods.
Sullivan, Caroline A, Meigh, Jeremy R
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Elaboración de un mapa que muestre los grados de vulnerabilidad sísmica, para viviendas de uso residencial en la comuna 7 de la ciudad de Cúcuta

Ecomatemático, 2010
The seismic risk doesn’t depend on the threat or the probability of occurring a seismic event, but also the highest vulnerability that many buildings have, because they haven’t been built with the appropiate regulations, also they don’t have minimun ...
Adriana Rodríguez-Lizcano
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Developing a Climate Change Vulnerability Index for Coastal City Sustainability, Mitigation, and Adaptation: A Case Study of Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia

Land, 2021
Coastal hazards are an urgent issue of global concern considering the increasing population pressure in coastal regions, retreating coastlines, and rising seawater levels.
Milad Bagheri, Zelina Zaiton Ibrahim, Mohd Fadzil Akhir, Wan Izatul Asma Wan Talaat, Bahareh Oryani, Shahabaldin Rezania, Isabelle D. Wolf, Amin Beiranvand Pour   +7 more
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Are Fertility Preservation Procedures Before Gonadotoxic Therapy and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Feasible and Safe in Very Young Children? A Retrospective Cohort Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Fertility preservation (FP) is increasingly integrated into the care of pediatric patients exposed to gonadotoxic therapy or conditioning for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), yet perioperative data in infants and toddlers remain scarce.
Kerstin Saalabian, Yannick Braun, Till‐Martin Theilen, Anke Barnbrock, Theresa Rohm, Fabienne Hammant, Nicole Sänger, Aynura Abbasova‐Semiz, Jan‐Henning Klusmann, Thomas Klingebiel, Udo Rolle, Peter Bader, Henning C. Fiegel, Andrea Jarisch   +13 more
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