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Showing 1 to 20 of 913 for “"Disasters"”.
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Natural Disasters
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Natural Disasters
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Disasters and the “Other Gender”: Exploring the Experiences of the Hijra Community in Disasters in India
… of the experiences of gender diverse groups in disasters. The hijra community is one such group that has faced the consequences of this interpretation. This qualitative research is a critical ethnography that delves into the lives of one hijra group in Odisha, India and explores their …
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The Political Implications of Natural Disasters
When natural disasters like floods or droughts happen, people experience their wrath, losing lives, livelihoods, homes and security. Natural disasters disrupt the status quo, and create social, humanitarian and political needs. In most cases, people turn to their governments to provide for these …
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Public Health Disasters: A Global Ethical Framework
… discourse on disaster bioethics as public health disasters. This concept reflects public health issues with calamitous or devastating social consequences such as infectious disease outbreaks, the attendant public health impacts of natural or man-made disasters, and currently latent or low …
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Hydrological disasters : designing to shelter in place
The focus of this thesis is hydrological disasters and the question it attempts to answer is: how can we design and implement housing structures along U.S. coastlines that fully withstand hydrological disasters? Priority and severity is shown by increasing trends in natural disaster occurrence …
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Social vulnerability, resilience and capital in disasters: Immigrants, refugees and linguistic minorities in the 2010-2011 Canterbury and Tohoku disasters
… experienced the 2010-2011 Canterbury and Tohoku disasters. This includes their perceived social vulnerabilities and resilience to disasters. Sociological research has found that disasters affect individuals, families and communities differently. Damage and recovery are usually uneven due to the …
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The impact of natural disasters on dietary behaviors
Disasters may have significant impacts on diet behaviors due to a lack of food resources, however, research on this field was rather limited. This study aims to explore the potential impact of disasters on individuals’ fruit and vegetable consumption. Findings of this study may be helpful for …
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Catastrophe and control : how technological disasters enhance democracy
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, 1994.
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Human Mobility Perturbation and Resilience in Natural Disasters
Natural disasters exert a profound impact on the world population. In 2012, natural disasters affected 106 million people, forcing over 31.7 million people to leave their homes. Climate change has intensified natural disasters, resulting in more catastrophic events and making extreme weather more …
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Investigating Multidimensional Factors Affecting Water Supply Resilience to Disasters
The supply of water following disasters has always been of significant concern to communities. Failure of water systems not only causes difficulties for residents and critical users but may also affect other hard and soft infrastructure and services. The dependency of communities and other …
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The Unclothed Body in Francisco Goya's The Disasters of War
… created a series of prints entitled The Disasters of War (1810-1820) (Los Desastres de la Guerra) depicting the Napoleonic Wars in Spain, the famine that subsequently occurred in Madrid, and symbolic representations similar to his print series Los Caprichos (1797-1799). This thesis will …
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Natural Disasters and Attachment Quality: The Mediating Role of Coping
<p>Research shows a strong relationship between children’s exposure to a natural disaster, parental distress, and development of mental health problems. It is theorized that trauma-related parental distress is associated with maladaptive parenting behaviors, which negatively impact the …
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The Development of Metrics For Community Resilience to Natural Disasters
<p>How communities recover following a disaster is often conceptualized in terms of their disaster resilience. While numerous research efforts have sought to explain the causal structure of disaster resilience, the ability to measure the concept is increasingly being seen as a key step towards …
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Building the resilience of Iranian hospitals to earthquake & flood disasters
… has been experiencing an unprecedented series of disasters and has given rise to increased attention by policymakers to the country's arrangements for disaster management. A disaster event can be a severe disruption to the functioning of any community and organisation. During the last decades, the …
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Political Disasters: The Politics of U.S. Disaster Relief, 1927-2005
… bureaucratic apparatus combined with major disasters and the need for assistance; the confluence established the government’s dominate role in disaster relief. Over the course of the twentieth century, federal disaster relief policy developed and increased alongside the expansion of …
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