Floods: Natural Disaster Mitigation And Preparedness - A Case Study Of Ambala District (Haryana)National Disaster Management Division defined the Hazards "A dangerous condition or events that threaten or have the potential for causing injury to life or damage to property or the environment". On the...
India, South Asia and much of the developing world are seen as disaster prone. Why? The reasons derive from geographical factors, but also overpopulation. A considerable percentage of the deaths in Asia due to natural disasters occur in ... PR Chari - Palgrave Macmillan UK 被引量: 1发表: ...
8. disaster n. 灾难;灾害 9. slide vi.& vt.(使)滑行;滑动 10. flood n. 洪水;大量 vi.淹没;大量涌入 vt.使灌满水;淹没 11. rescue n. & vt.营救;救援 12. damage vt.损害;破坏n. 损坏;损失 13. destroy vt.摧毁;毁灭 14. shelter n. 避难处;居所;庇护 vt.保护;掩蔽 vi.躲避(风雨或危险...
2.1. Study design and data sources This was a worldwide observational study which covered all the countries and territories that had reported natural flood disasters from 1990 to 2019. We used disaster-related data from the international disaster database (https://www.emdat.be/), namely the Em...
and comprised data that covered the 1980–2000 period and most of the 249 countries in the study. Since the 1970s, studies have shown that populations and countries with similar levels of physical exposure to a particular hazard can have differing levels of disaster risk. Development is the pri...
Regarding public policies, water supply infrastructure increases the resilience of the output growth of services to droughts, whereas disaster microinsurance helps to mitigate the effects of droughts and floods on the economic growth of agriculture in a Brazilian state where family farming is predominant...
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(2013). "Natural disasters, urban vulnerability, and risk management: a theoretical overview." Pp.7-43 in The Interplay Between Urban Development, Vulnerability, and Risk Management: A Case Study of the Istanbul Metropolitan Area. edited by E. A. Gencer (ed.) New York: Springer....
(2011) Study in Australia36, utilized a natural disaster as a model for investigating the impact of prenatal stress on child development. Nevertheless, to the best of our knowledge, our is the first study that examines ADHD symptoms which are associated with exposure to a natural disaster, and...
Natural hazard events provide opportunities for policy change to enhance disaster risk reduction (DRR), yet it remains unclear whether these events actually fulfill this transformative role around the world. Here, we investigate relationships between the