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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Disaster Risk Management"”.
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Aerial Cadastral and Flood Assessment for Disaster Risk Management in Appalachia
As natural disasters have continued to become more prevalent in recent years, the need for effective disaster management efforts has become even more critical. Flooding is an extremely common natural disaster which can cause significant damage to homes and other property. Using low-cost drones, 3D …
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Disaster risk management of interdependent infrastructure systems for community resilience planning
… parts: developing a model to simulate the post-disaster performance of interdependent infrastructure systems and developing decision frameworks to support pre-disaster risk mitigation and post-disaster recovery planning of the interdependent infrastructure systems towards higher resilience. The …
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Disaster Risk Management during Climate Emergencies in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico
… and affiliated international organizations. Disaster Risk Management is the systematic process of using laws, plans, institutions, and community networks to reduce vulnerability to hazards and coordinate effective response when disasters occur. It covers the full cycle, from prevention to …
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Calamities, Catastrophes, and Cataclysms: Current Trends in International Disaster Risk Management Practices for Cultural Heritage Sites
… in response to climate change and natural disasters. Despite an established network of institutions united in preserving the world’s cultural heritage, risk management planning for heritage properties remains in its infancy. This thesis asks what types of risk management for cultural …
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Bridging local and external knowledge for disaster risk management planning: The perceived benefit of participatory 3D modelling in Umgungundlovu District Municipality, South Africa
… also take place in South Africa. South African disaster management legislation emphasises the indigenous knowledge of people who are most affected when hazards turn into disaster. Participatory GIS in the form of activities building and using three-dimensional models (P3DM) has been used …
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An evaluation of the implementation of the institutional capacity for disaster risk reduction (DRR) : the case of Capricorn District Municipality
… has taken place in South Africa in terms of disaster risk management. The transformation processes have led to the promulgation of the Disaster Management Act, 2002 (Act No 57 of 2002) that was heralded as a new era for disaster risk management in South Africa. Subsequently, the publication …
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Confronting Glacial Hazards: A Study of Disaster Impact and Community Adaptation to Glacial Lake Outburst Floods in Hunza, Pakistan
… 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
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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Exploring Disaster Recovery: Stakeholder Interfaces, Goals and Interdependencies
Disaster risk management has seen the importance of coordination at various levels of planning and implementation, ranging from preparedness to disaster response, and in planning for long term recovery and sustainable development. This thesis aims to develop a deeper and analytical understanding of …
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Risk management and disaster relief operations
… were killed in natural catastrophes and man-made disasters were responsible for 10,000 fatalities worldwide; flood claimed the most victims with more than a third of the fatalities caused by natural disasters. Indeed, people will always face natural disasters, but it seems that disasters nowadays …
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CLIMATE RESILIENCE OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: Network Modelling for Flood Resilience Assessment and Recovery Optimisation of Urban Rail Transit
… for informed decision support on infrastructure disaster risk management, this research is dedicated to address the research question “How to advance complex network modelling to incorporate physical, operational, social, and economic dimensions to assess and enhance the resilience of URTS …
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Beyond one bad day : exploring social, economic, and environmental co-benefits of resilience in the National Disaster Resilience Competition
… communities in the U.S. tend to underinvest in disaster risk management and resilience efforts. This is due in part to prohibitively high costs, which are not justified by the traditional method of determining the benefits of such investment. The benefits of resilience are often unclear, …
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Wildfire Risk Management for Informal Settlements in Chile
… explores the critical intersection of wildfire risk and informal settlement development in Chile, focusing on the municipality of Viña del Mar. This city experienced the deadliest wildfires in the nation’s history in 2024 and holds the nation’s highest concentration of informal settlements. …
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The use of Geographical Information Systems for Disaster Risk Reduction strategies: a case study of Volcán de Colima, Mexico
… while the exposure of the population at risk is often understudied. However, contemporary disaster risk management requires the analysis of vulnerability and hazard exposure, which is imperative at Volcán de Colima (VdC), Mexico, due to the predicted, large-magnitude eruption forecasted …
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Applying sustainable urban drainage systems to urban floods management in area 49 planned settlement in Lilongwe City, Malawi
… Urban Drainage Systems to Urban Floods Management in Area 49 Planned Settlement in Lilongwe City, Malawi”. Currently, there is a frequent occurrence of urban floods in Lilongwe City with Area 49 being the most hit neighbourhood which is also the study area for this research. Therefore, …
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Responding to Natural Hazards: The Effects of Disaster on Residential Location Decisions and Health Outcomes
… climate change, underscores the importance of disaster research and continued advancements in hazard risk mitigation. This dissertation conducts analyses regarding the effects of natural hazards on residential location choice, county migration rates, mental health status, and displacement. The …
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Mainstreaming Water Energy Food Nexus thinking and drought preparedness into local municipal planning: An analysis in the Bergrivier Municipality
… framework and drought. Given that natural disasters such as drought tend to affect water, energy and food, it is important to understand how municipal policy is set to try to manage these drought impacts and the interconnections that exist between these resources water, energy and food, as …
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Changes in rainfall seasonality in the Western Cape, South Africa: an exploration of methods for determining the start and end of the rainfall season
… drought periods will likely occur. In terms of disaster risk management, the more that is known about rainfall patterns, the better prepared regions can be for the inevitable increase in extreme events. Cities can put in better systems now in order to deal with potential future crises. Cape Town …
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The Relational Lives of Street-Connected Young People in Hazard Prone areas of Jamaica
… lives of street-connected young people living in disaster prone communities in the Caribbean country of Jamaica. Street-connected young people’s lives have been well documented over the past few decades in relation to their immediate spaces, activities and more recently, relationships. …
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The Role of Gender in Post-Disaster Recovery and Disaster Risk Governance in Nepal: Examining Links Between Women, Institutions and Capacity-Building
Although it is widely acknowledged within disaster scholarship that women are more vulnerable to disasters than men, there is a dearth of literature explicitly discussing the ways in which governmental and non-governmental institutions have supported, strengthened and built the capabilities of …
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