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Natural Disasters
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Natural Disasters
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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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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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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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Natural Disasters and Attachment Quality: The Mediating Role of Coping
… 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 psychological development of …
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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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Multi-Objective Optimization for Temporary Housing Arrangements After Natural Disasters
An innovative sustainability model is also developed to quantify and maximize the sustainability of integrated housing recovery efforts, which comply with the Alternative Housing Pilot Program (AHHP) proposed by FEMA and aims at developing innovative alternative housing projects to serve both as …
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Medical Vulnerability in Natural Disasters: The Ethics of Responsibility and Response
… Based on analyses of these and other natural disasters, I argue that a key concept in disaster ethics is that of medical vulnerability. Both specific populations and health systems are vulnerable to natural disasters, and addressing these vulnerabilities is essential for effective and …
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The Impact of Natural Disasters on Academic Achievement Amongst Emerging Adults
Natural disasters are largely unexpected, and their disruptive nature can devastate people’s homes, their finances, and their psychological well-being. Less, however, is known about the extent to which natural disasters can impact students’ academic achievement levels. Previous studies on natural …
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The Effect of Natural Disasters on Minority Voter Turnout, 1990-2016
<p>This paper studies four natural disaster categories--climatological, geophysical, hydrological, and meteorological--and their impact upon four elections--gubernatorial, House, President, and Senate--for the 1990-2016 time period in 3,113 US counties, excluding Alaska. The research focused on …
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Social Capital Formation and Natural Disasters: Impact of Gorkha earthquake in Nepal
Aunque el capital social se ha estudiado en varios contextos, sus efectos en las comunidades aún se pueden explorar más a fondo. El capital social a veces se describe como normas, valores y entendimientos compartidos que facilitan la cooperación entre individuos. Sin embargo, estas normas pueden …
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Indicators of community resilience : a study of communities facing impending natural disasters
Disasters are defined as a 'crisis event in which the demands being placed on a human system, by the event, exceed the systems capacity to respond' (Bolin, 1989, p. 62). In the literature the negative consequences of disasters are focused at the individual level and fail to take into account the …
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The Political Determinants of the Impact of Natural Disasters: A Cross-Country Comparison
While people all over the world are vulnerable to natural disasters, the available data clearly demonstrate a great deal of cross-country variance in the impact of catastrophic events. For example, while Hurricane Mitch took an estimated 13,000 lives when it struck Honduras and Nicaragua, the …
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Human Capital Outcomes for Children : The Impact of School Subsidies and Natural Disasters.
Visualizing Real Time Vasomotion in vivo Using Optical Coherence Tomography.
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A Call To Arms: The Militarization of Natural Disasters in the United States
<p>Natural disasters are an expected and uncontrolled part of history, and will continue and possibly worsen in the future. The humanitarian focus that has characterized disaster response throughout the years is changing, as is the way the federal government responds to large-scale natural …
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How natural are 'natural disasters'? : vulnerability to drought in Southern Namibia communal areas
Bibliography: leaves 37-41
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The Responses of the Roman Imperial Government to Natural Disasters 29 BCE-180 CE
… significance that could be attached to major disasters. Then, the chapter shifts to three specific case studies that illustrate how disaster response could positively or negatively impact the political standing of an emperor. Chapter 6 offers a final, brief summary of the key points of this …
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Natural disasters and disaster preparedness at universities: A case study at the University of Northern Iowa
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