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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Hazard Mitigation"”.
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City of Watsonville Local Hazard Mitigation Plan
… vulnerable to a number of natural and man-made hazards. This project analyzed this risk and vulnerabilities to critical facilities within the city, and made recommendations of mitigation strategies and implementation methods to address this risk. Analysis and data collection was conducted in …
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Asteroid hazard mitigation: deflection models and mission analysis
… a comprehensive insight into the asteroid hazard problem and particularly to its mitigation. Six different concepts are fully described; specifically models for nuclear interceptor, kinetic impactor, low-thrust propulsion, mass driver, solar collector and gravity tug are developed and their …
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CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION, NATURAL HAZARD MITIGATION, AND INNOVATIVE RESPONSES
… the patenting activities of their respective mitigation technologies. Using patent and disaster damage data, this study is the first to empirically examine adaptation responses across multiple sectors at the country level. My empirical analysis, using a panel of 28 countries over a period of …
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Santa Barbara Tea Fire Multi-Hazard Mitigation Benefit Cost Analysis
ABSTRACT Santa Barbara Tea Fire Multi-Hazard Mitigation Benefit Cost Analysis David S Flamm This study examines the benefits and costs associated with the outright purchase of properties for hazard mitigation (“property acquisition mitigation”) in Santa Barbara, California which reduced four …
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Policy Diffusion in U.S. Hazard Mitigation Planning: An Intergovernmental Perspective
… policy literature by examining the diffusion of hazard mitigation policy in the U.S. Using the three-paper model, it investigates the adoption of local hazard mitigation plans (LHMPs) from an intergovernmental perspective. The first paper focuses on horizontal diffusion in hazard mitigation …
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Next Generation Multifunctional Composites for Impact, Vibration and Electromagnetic Radiation Hazard Mitigation
… in protection methods against different hazards including impact, vibrations and EMI events.
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From Ideas to Actions: Hazard Mitigation Policy Adoption—Analysis of Floodplain Property Buyout Program
… is exerting a profound influence on natural hazards, resulting in increased frequency, intensity, and altered patterns of extreme weather events. These changes pose significant risks to vulnerable populations worldwide. Consequently, it is imperative to adopt hazard mitigation policies to …
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Toward a comprehensive natural hazard mitigation framework : the consideration of land use planning in coastal communities
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997.
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Documenting the Origin of Compositional Diversity of Subduction Zone Magmatism, Alicudi, Aeolian Arc (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy) Using in situ Plagioclase Data
… affects degree of explosivity, which impacts hazard mitigation. Magnesium to silicon rich magmas are produced by processes such as magma recharge, assimilation, and fractional crystallization (RAFC) that occur in subvolcanic magma chamber(s). This study evaluates how magma chamber processes …
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Quantifying the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Hazards: Incorporating Disaster Mitigation Strategies in Climate Action Plans
… of the built environment destroyed by natural hazards have their useful life shortened, requiring replacement before functionally necessary. Though the hazard itself does not release greenhouse gasses, the demolition and rebuilding process does, and these are the emissions we can quantify to …
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Assessing the Intersectional Risks Associated with the Full Life Cycle of the U.S. Housing Stock
… applied to decisions regarding the selection of hazard mitigation measures to apply, households to prioritize in hazard mitigation grant programs, and construction materials to use in efforts to reduce societal greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To study these decisions, a computation inexpensive …
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Public perceptions of the functions of natural and engineered infrastructure in coastal hazards mitigation: the cases of two communities in the Raritan bayshore, New Jersey
… and natural infrastructure in mitigating coastal hazards. For such policies to be effectively implemented, the mitigation functions of and relationship between natural infrastructure and engineered infrastructure must be understood and their integrated use accepted by affected actors, especially …
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Urban spatial structure, housing markets, and resilience to natural hazards
… persistently. Measuring resilience to natural hazards is a central issue in the hazard mitigation sciences. The third paper applied a confirmatory factor methodology to operationalize the biophysical, built environment, and socioeconomic resilience dimensions for local jurisdictions in large …
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The dynamics and resilience of river cities as coupled human-natural systems
… river health. The prevailing approach to flood hazard mitigation--flood control, has been criticized to be ineffective for long-term flood safety. Flood control is also well-understood to be destructive to river-floodplain ecosystems through the homogenization of the biophysical environment and …
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Intergovernmental Collaboration in Emergency Management: The Case of the September 2009 Georgia Flood
… personnel. They include federal aid ranging from hazard mitigation grants, small business loans, and individual assistance to disaster victims. Between September 16 and 22, 2009, Georgia experienced an unprecedented amount of rain resulting in over fourteen counties to be declared disaster areas. …
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Olympic Challenge: Designing Equity into Mega-Events
… of infrastructure. Borrowing the language of hazard mitigation from environmental planning and a framework for operationalizing equity in planning, this thesis evaluates the potentiality of diverse procurement and contracting in mega-events as a tool to minimize known vulnerabilities, …
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Documenting Magma Evolution of the Fossa delle Felci (Salina Island, South Tyrrhenian Sea) by Integrating In Situ Plagioclase Data with Quantitative Modeling
… into eruption catalysts, and therefore assist in hazard mitigation. This study evaluates the relative roles of RAFC processes in Fossa delle Felci (Salina Island, Italy) magmas, which span the basalt to dacite range (52-65 wt% SiO2). Integration of petrographic, whole rock, and in situ plagioclase …
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Improving Reno Earthquake Hazard Assessment Through a Ground-Motion Model Analysis and Paleoseismic Study
… two complimentary methods to assess earthquake hazards around Reno, Nevada. First, we evaluate the performance of the four NGA-West2 (2014) Active Crustal models, which are trained on a global dataset of ground motion recordings, in the context of the Reno area. We compare the NGA-West2 model …
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The Effects of SMS Implementation on Safety Culture Within Helicopter Emergency Medical Services
… a Just Culture, and the effectiveness of certain hazard mitigation protocols popular to the industry. The survey data revealed that SMS has been fairly well received by the working roles in these HAA operations. It also showed that some difference in opinion surfaced between the most experienced …
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