natural disasterscommunicationExtensive damage to residential land occurred in Christchurch and neighbouring suburbs as a result of the devastating Canterbury Earthquakes of 2010 and 2011. The primary cause of the land damage on the Canterbury plains was liquefaction, manifested as sand ejection, ...
10. Advances in LGBTQ Rights How the Stonewall Riots Sparked a Movement The decade saw key advances for LGBTQ people around the world, with the legalization of same-sex marriage in 18 countries, including Argentina, France, Great Britain, Australia, Ireland, Germany and the United States (via...
Good Humanitarian Donorship Principles in Practice: Assessing humanitarian assistance to internally displaced persons in Sudan and Sri Lanka This one-page document presents 23 principles of humanitarian donorship that were endorsed in Stockholm in 2003 by Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, the... Col...
Josephine Pryce, Graeme Cotter, in Economic Effects of Natural Disasters, 2021 4.2 Background to Cyclones in Northeast Australia Cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons! In the Northwest Pacific, they are known as “typhoons”; in the North Atlantic, central North Pacific, and eastern North Pacific, ...
Australia's biggest insurer, QBE Insurance Group, yesterday reported a full-year loss of US1.25 billion for 2017 as claims from natural disasters soared and its emerging-markets business underperformed. In contrast, the company reported profits of $844 million in 2016....
Subdivision Policy and Planning for Bushfire Defence: A Natural Hazard Mitigation Strategy for Residential Peri‐Urban Regions in Victoria, Australia A natural hazard mitigation strategy for residential peri-urban regions in Victoria, Australia, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University...
Both Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and New York City have experienced catastrophic weather events in recent years. In January 2011, the Brisbane River flooded, inundating more than 20,000 houses; in October 2012, superstorm Hurricane ... M Burke,N Sipe - 《Transportation Research Record Jour...
War or natural disasters often destroy or cause major damage to sanitary systems. The destruction of waste treatment systems can increase the risk of disease and even death among survivors.Some people dig holes in the ground that serve as individual toilets. However, micro-organisms from human ...
Plastic that is dumped in rivers and then ends up in the world's oceans is one of the major sources of marine pollution, a new study said this week, with Asian waterways the main culprits. Researchers at The Ocean Cleanup—a Dutch foundation developing new technologies for ridding the ocean...
While there are some locations that benefit from established long-term monitoring programs (e.g., Australia's Great Barrier Reef:)27, information on long-term changes in the abundance and structure of coral assemblages is increasingly being generated from analyses of meta-data25,28. While there ...