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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"disaster resilience"”.
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Architecture Afloat: Disaster Resilience
Following a natural disaster, buildings are destroyed, communities are separated and families are left without a place to live. As these disasters are expected to intensify and become more frequent, many people and communities are at risk. Natural disasters repeatedly reveal a lack of preparedness …
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Urban disaster resilience: learning from the 2011 Bangkok flood
Reducing disaster risk, managing rapid urbanisation and tackling poverty is an enormous challenge, particularly in vulnerable neighbourhoods in low and middle-income countries. By 2050, two-thirds of the world’s population will live in towns and cities, with 95 per cent of future urban expansion in …
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Capacity assessment framework to enhance disaster resilience within Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
… threats from various man-made and natural disasters in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) are very real. However, recent evidence suggests that various levels of Government and emergency responders are insufficiently prepared to address the increasing demand for disaster response. With growing …
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Climate Adaptation in Out-Of-Hospital Settings: Building Strategic Disaster Resilience in Ambulance Operations
… to the academic dialogue surrounding the resilience and practices of ambulance services, particularly in the context of escalating climate-related risks and overlapping disasters, such as pandemics. This study uses a pragmatic lens to highlight the implications for operational adjustments …
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Developing a framework for integrated community-centered early warning system to enhance disaster resilience in UAE
The impacts and costs of natural disasters on people, properties and environment is often severe when they occur on a large scale or when not prepared for. Factors such as impacts of climate change, urban growth, poor planning to mention a few, have continued to significantly increase the …
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Integrating Stakeholder Value Systems into Disaster Resilience Planning: A Value-Driven Framework for Collaborative Decision Making
Disaster resilience planning involves complex decision-making processes marked by constant negotiation, competition, and cooperation among stakeholders from the public, private, and non-profit sectors and at-risk communities. Central to these processes are stakeholders' value systems: the things …
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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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Social capital and collective efficacy for disaster resilience: connecting individuals with communities and vulnerability with resilience in hurricane-prone communities in Florida
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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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Hubungan spiritualitas dengan resiliensi survivor remaja pasca bencana erupsi Gunung Kelud di Desa Pandansari-Ngantang-Kabupaten Malang
… cause psychological problems. High and low resilience of survivors of adolescent influenced by several factors, one of which spirituality. Spirituality was positively correlated with post-disaster resilience teenage survivor Kelud eruption. Spirituality is an individual effort in a personal …
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Prioritizing Residential High-Performance Resilient Building Technologies for Immediate and Future Climate Induced Natural Disaster Risks
Climate change is exacerbating natural disasters, and extreme weather events increase with intensity and frequency. This requires an in-depth evaluation of locations across the various U.S. climates where natural hazards, vulnerabilities, and potentially damaging impacts will vary. At the local …
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The calm after the storm : a qualitative case study on the role of resilience and post-disaster interventions in the recovery of Head Start programs.
… provided Head Start programs with numerous post-disaster interventions necessary to recover from, respond to, and prepare for the next disaster. OHS encouraged grant recipients to utilize the disaster recovery funding to build more resilient facilities and to provide children, families, and staff …
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Disaster risk management of interdependent infrastructure systems for community resilience planning
… systems under disruptive events for community resilience planning. The overall research can be broadly divided into two parts: developing a model to simulate the post-disaster performance of interdependent infrastructure systems and developing decision frameworks to support pre-disaster risk …
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Systems to Transform Interdisciplinary Graduate Education: An Ecological Systems Analysis of STEM Graduate Students' Longitudinal Interdisciplinary Identity-Based Motivation
… with graduate students in an Interdisciplinary Disaster Resilience program, this case study reveals complex developmental trajectories, salient microsystems, and system interaction patterns that shape interdisciplinary scholar formation. The research unfolds across three interconnected …
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Policy Diffusion in U.S. Hazard Mitigation Planning: An Intergovernmental Perspective
This dissertation contributes to the disaster resilience 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 …
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Recovery from Minor Tropical Cyclones: the Response of Faith-based Organizations and Government Agencies to Minor Tropical Cyclones in Biloxi, Mississippi
… major hurricanes are extensively researched in Disaster Resilience literature and the field of Human Geography; in contrast, the aftermath of minor tropical cyclones is understudied. Along the Gulf Coast in 2020 and 2021, more minor tropical cyclones made landfall then major hurricanes (NOAA, …
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Design for community resilience in the age of disasters : a case study in Puerto Rico
… with more frequent and more destructive natural disasters. The need to better prepare the Island for future disasters is immense and urgent. Combining primary and secondary research, this thesis applies a human-centered and system-minded design approach to identify and analyze the current …
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“WHEN THIS HAPPENS AGAIN”: ANALYZING COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES OF FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO REPEATED DISASTER VULNERABILITY AND THEIR IMPACT ON RECOVERY
Storm-related flooding is one of the greatest disaster risks facing communities in eastern North Carolina. After flood events, communities of limited means may be incapable of pushing for reconstruction agendas that increase their disaster resilience. Recovery efforts driven by the agendas of …
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Disastrous Opportunities: Designing for post-hurricane adaptivity using low carbon construction methods on the destroyed site of Belle Creole, St Martin: a construction research center
Disasters are perceived as singular apocalyptical events that rely on vernacular shifts that are often too slow to adapt before the next hurricane hits. This thesis redefines hurricanes as an opportunity to innovate in new ways of building that take advantage of the ensuing scarcities and …
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Power, planning, and the right to the post-disaster city : exploring opportunities for long-term housing affordability and resilience in earthquake recovery
… California. Investments in hazard mitigation and disaster response will help to lessen impact, but the reality is that large-scale disasters will cause devastation, especially on low-income communities of color, no matter how much preparation. Knowing that natural disasters are increasing, and …
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