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Showing 1 to 20 of 166 for “"Natural Hazards"”.
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Modeling the societal impact of natural hazards
… will present models for societal consequences of natural hazards which are often neglected in traditional risk analysis. The impact of natural hazards is far-reaching and evident based on past disasters such as Hurricane Katrina (2005) and Superstorm Sandy (2012). The vulnerability of the nation’s …
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Natural hazards and environmental assessment in New Zealand
… by uncertain and abnormal circumstances such as natural hazards. Natural hazards (including earthquakes, floods, tsunami, and coastal erosion) can be catastrophic to an environment. If hazards are not avoided or successfully mitigated, they can result in serious consequences to proposed …
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Living with Natural Hazards on the Icelandic South Coast
Íbúar Stokkseyrar búa við náttúruvá. Þorpið er staðsett á Suðurlandsbrotabeltinu og býr þar af leiðandi við reglubundna skjálftavirkni. Í maí 2008 reið yfir síðasti stóri skjálftinn á svæðinu en hann var 6.3 á Richter skalanum. Sjávarflóð eru tíð á Stokkseyri þar sem þorpið rís ekki hátt yfir …
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Minimum Life -Cycle Cost Structural Design Against Natural Hazards
The life-cycle cost based design method presented here is useful tool for decision on design load intensity. The results have important implications in the development of future codes and design guide lines.
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Effects and mitigation of natural hazards in retail networks
The number of natural hazards has been increasing over the last 10 years. Understanding the impact of natural hazards on retail networks is crucial to make effective planning against disruptions. We used daily sales and inventory data from a country-wide retail network and natural emergencies …
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Assessing Risk of Superfund Sites to Natural Hazards within Texas
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Urban spatial structure, housing markets, and resilience to natural hazards
… decline 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 …
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Object-based image analysis for detecting landforms diagnostic of natural hazards
Natural and potentially hazardous events occur on the Earth’s surface every day. The most destructive of these processes must be monitored, because they may cause loss of lives, infrastructure, and natural resources, or have a negative effect on the environment. A variety of remote sensing …
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Building resilience towards natural hazards: cross-‐scale knowledge and institutional linkages.
Our environment is becoming increasingly complex: the rapid urbanisation, often accompanied by uncontrolled use of land, occupation of unsafe environments as well as the increased rate of occurrence of climate events are introducing elements of uncertainty (Pinna, 2002). The idea of certainty or …
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Intergenerational adaptability to natural hazards : a case study of the Kasane community
… an increase in the frequent occurrence of natural hazards have had a negative impact to the human race. An increase in the incident and severity of natural hazards and disasters is due in part to the change in the climatic conditions experienced globally, with the results that both human …
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Natural Hazards Monitoring Using Multiple Remote Sensing Techniques and Machine Learning Algorithms
Natural hazards often fit into two categories according to the speed and extent of a hazard: rapid onset hazards and slow onset hazards. Both could pose considerable risks to society development, community security, and ecosystems, especially in urban areas with dense populations. Satellite-based …
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Equity considered infrastructure decision support for improved community resilience to natural hazards
… is critical to best prepare communities to face natural hazards which only continue to intensify in both occurrence and magnitude. Communities rely upon the critical services provided by our infrastructure systems (e.g., water, electric, etc.), and the provision or absence of service greatly …
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Responding to Natural Hazards: The Effects of Disaster on Residential Location Decisions and Health Outcomes
Exposure to natural hazards is rapidly increasing due to growing populations within floodplains and along hazard-prone coastlines. This trend, coupled with potential increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events from climate change, underscores the importance of disaster …
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Assessing Natural Hazards and Climate Change in a Mountain Region with a Hydrological Digital Twin
Rising social and economic losses from natural hazards, particularly in mountain regions, driven by increasing exposure, climate change-driven extremes, and improved impact reporting, highlight the need for a multi-hazard approach in their study. Multi-hazard risk assessment requires clear …
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Developing an incident command system framework for natural hazards in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
It is beyond dispute that natural hazards cause significant damage to physical and human domains, with more disasters occurring in the last 25 years are increasingly linked to climate change. Therefore, there is a growing need to minimise the dangers and threats faced by individual countries. Due …
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Facing natural hazards: uncertain and intertemporal elements of choosing shore protection along the Great Lakes
… to risk, - when faced with low probability hazards, individuals tend to ignore the hazard altogether (truncate low probability), - when faced with choices over time, individuals have different rates at which they trade off benefits now versus later. Typically, applications of BCA do not …
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An Examination: Using Participatory Action Research in a Marginalized Coastal Community at Risk to Natural Hazards
… small, marginalized coastal community at risk to natural hazards. PAR is a method of conducting high-quality research to support the social change goals of diverse cultural and ethnic communities, especially as they relate to community involvement, democracy, emancipation, and liberation (Lindsey …
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Media, Representation, Persistence and Relief: the Role of the Internet in Understanding the Physical and Social Dynamics of Catastrophic Natural Hazards.
The number of recorded natural hazards has increased throughout the past four decades and recent events such as the L’Aquila, Italy earthquake and the Sichuan, China earthquake demonstrate the persistent threat posed by such events. When a natural hazard occurs, the ensuing disruption to society is …
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