The focus of this chapter is on safety of UTSs. After a general overview of all major impacts to UTSs due to natural and man-made hazards, the chapter emphasizes how roadway conditions are influenced by a variety of adverse weather events (e.g., snow, rain, heat, and windstorm) in ...
the negative return with a large absolute value often appears, which will cause the probability of the extreme value of the return to appear greater than the probability of the extreme value under the normal distribution, thus increasing the kurtosis of the return distribution. In contrast, the s...
While all regions are exposed to natural hazards, most disasters (such as droughts, earthquakes, extreme temperatures, floods, slides, storms, volcanoes and wildfires) tend to occur in developing regions. Underdeveloped countries and poor people concentrate the un-natural impact of natural hazards, de...
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- 《Natural Hazards》 被引量: 7发表: 2017年 The Spillover Effect of a Flood on Pets and Their People: Implications for Rental Housing When disasters strike, companion animals (pets) matter. Emergency planning for them is a key aspect of disaster preparedness, especially considering that p......
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As the utilization of space has become part of our everyday lives, and as our lives have become increasingly dependent on technological systems vulnerable to the space weather influences, the understanding and prediction of hazards posed by these active solar events have grown in importance. In ...
Gutmann et al.18have performed pseudo-global warming simulations using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model and examined how the movement of eastern and southeastern US TCs might change under RCP8.5 by the end of the 21st century. Among the 22 TCs they examined that had small track...
Natural hazards Sociology This article is cited by Impact of tropical cyclones on sustainable development through loops and cycles: evidence from select developing countries of Asia Sweta Sen Narayan Chandra Nayak William Kumar Mohanty Empirical Economics(2023) ...
Farmers' perception and knowledge on climate change and their coping strategies to the related hazards: case study from Adiha, central Tigray, Ethiopia Climate change adversely affects Ethiopian economy due to heavy dependence of the agricultural sector on rainfall. A decrease of rainfall and rise in...