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Confronting Glacial Hazards: A Study of Disaster Impact and Community Adaptation to Glacial Lake Outburst Floods in Hunza, Pakistan

Shahid, MishaMassachusetts Institute of Technology2024

… world, high mountain communities face increasing risks from glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) with limited capacity to mitigate their impact and recover from repeated cycles of losses. This thesis looks at the Hassanabad settlement in Hunza, Pakistan which has faced five GLOF occurrences …

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Community Based Fire Risk Reduction - Case Study of Imizamo Yethu, Hout Bay

Rosenberg, MatthewSchool of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics2013

The destructive impact of disasters, man-made and natural, has been well studied in many contexts and a number of approaches for managing these disasters have been suggested. Much of the literature, however, has come out of the developing world with the focus on formal, well established …

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Development of a Community-Based Natech Risk Management Framework Through the Lenses of Local Community, First Responders and Government

PARK, HyejeongKyoto University2020

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