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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"disaster mitigation"”.
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TEMPLATES FOR CREATING STANDARDIZED CARTOGRAPHIC PRODUCTSFOR MONTANA COUNTY PRE-DISASTER MITIGATION PLANS
… development of standardized map products for pre-disaster mitigation (PDM) plans during the spring of 2006, and the research was completed later that year. The requirement for the development of these plans was established by the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000. In Montana, implementation of this …
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TEMPLATES FOR CREATING STANDARDIZED CARTOGRAPHIC PRODUCTSFOR MONTANA COUNTY PRE-DISASTER MITIGATION PLANS
… development of standardized map products for pre-disaster mitigation (PDM) plans during the spring of 2006, and the research was completed later that year. The requirement for the development of these plans was established by the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000. In Montana, implementation of this …
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Quantifying the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Hazards: Incorporating Disaster Mitigation Strategies in Climate Action Plans
<p>Reconstruction after natural disasters can represent large peaks in a community’s greenhouse gas emission inventory. Components of the built environment destroyed by natural hazards have their useful life shortened, requiring replacement before functionally necessary. Though the hazard itself …
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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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Incorporating natural disaster risk information into economic analyses of agricultural projects
… where an economic analysis, utilizing natural disaster risk information, could be introduced, (ii) to examine methods of incorporating natural disaster risk into economic analyses of agricultural projects, and (iii) to include this information in an economic analysis of an agricultural project, …
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Reacting plume inversion on urban geometries through gradient based design methodologies
… to make a significant impact. In particular, disaster mitigation and post-event forensic activities are of interest. This work investigates a procedure built on gradient based design methods to allow for the solution of the so-called inverse chemistry problem in urban environments. The inverse …
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Museums, Disasters, and Resilience: The Presbytère's Living with Hurricanes—Katrina and Beyond Exhibit
… the entanglement of cultural heritage, museums, disasters, and resilience. Using The Presbytère museum's exhibit, <em>Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond</em> as a case study, I critically examined <em>who</em> is represented in the exhibit and how, what roles museum professionals and New …
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The physical and economic impacts of urban flooding on critical infrastructure & surrounding communities: a decision-support framework
… a rise in the frequency and severity of natural disasters. The economic costs associated with these extreme events exceeded $110 billion in the year 2012 alone. While the causes for these events are many and the subject of current controversy there is little doubt that man’s role in rapid …
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RISK PERCEPTION AND RESPONSE AMONG INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
… the exposure of university campuses to hazards, disaster mitigation is a critical element of higher education policy. Although U.S. higher education institutions are leaders in the global education market, emergency warning systems give little consideration to how international students perceive …
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Extreme rainfall, flood scaling and flood policy options in the United States
… few New England stations. Extreme floods damage mitigation requires sound and integrated policy making. We review the flood disaster mitigation situation in the U.S., carry out policy analysis and recommend options for a successful and sustainable flood disaster policy in the U.S.
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Data + disasters : rethinking the role of Metro Boston's data intermediaries in disaster management
… questions about the role of data providers in disaster response and recovery. Digital tools such as maps that display emergency shelter locations or levels of E.Coli contamination in floodwaters are typically created and managed by a local data intermediary. A data intermediary is defined by …
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Quantifying the Role of Vulnerability in Hurricane Damage via a Machine Learning Case Study
Pre-disaster damage predictions and post-disaster damage assessments are challenging because they result from complicated interactions between multiple drivers, including exposure to various hazards as well as differing levels of community resiliency. Certain societal characteristics, in …
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Mokumitsu Districts in Tokyo
… housing— is one of the fundamental measures for disaster mitigation in Mokumitsu districts. It is also significant for the existing residents to keep living in the same community after the renewal, in terms of disaster preparedness. However, the current policies for the Tokyo’s Mokumitsu …
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A Data Fusion Framework for Floodplain Analysis using GIS and Remotely Sensed Data
… largest cause of economic losses from natural disasters, and are also a major cause of disaster-related deaths in the less developed countries. Flood disaster mitigation research was conducted to determine how remotely sensed data can effectively be used to produce accurate flood plain maps …
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The Evolution and Distribution of Precipitation during Tropical Cyclone Landfalls using the GPM IMERG Product
… that contribute to improved TCP forecasting and disaster mitigation strategies for vulnerable coastal populations globally. Future studies can apply shape metrics to the sub-basins in NI and WP to examine regional variability as there has been no such study in these basins. Future work can also …
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Strategies for equitable climate change adaptation : lessons from buyback and elevation programs in Rhode Island
… In my findings, I identify a merging of hazard mitigation activities with climate change adaptation, with existing federal disaster mitigation programs administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Housing and Urban Development shaping and constraining adaptation …
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Multimodal Machine Learning for Climate Adaptation
… to develop long-term risk models for proactive disaster mitigation rather than reactive responses. Therefore, in the second part of the thesis, we delve into two application domains to envision the transformative force in addressing climate change-induced challenges. In Chapter 4, we introduce …
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Intergovernmental Collaboration in Emergency Management: The Case of the September 2009 Georgia Flood
… emergency management assistance compact. During disasters these mechanisms interact with each other to provide for a flexible, adaptable management approach. Local governments that are responsible for responding to disasters receive support from other local, state, and federal agencies depending …
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Wildfire as Coupled Human Natural System
… including healthcare, sustainability, and disaster mitigation. I show how, in the absence of exogenous factors such as temperature or lightning, the human perception of fire danger may establish a feedback loop that can yield significant trends such as fluctuation or even fluctuation with …
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