namely “natural” disasters, which have immediate and tangible consequences in terms of deaths, injuries, and damage to the natural habitat. A disaster is the intersection of two opposing forces: the processes generating vulnerability on one side (socio-economic conditions)...
Natural disasters in the U.S. - Statistics & Facts Choose a region: United States The United States is the fourth largest country in the world. A home to extremely diverse climates across its expansive domain, the U.S. continues to experience a wide range of natural disasters. In the Unit...
Natural disasters tend to ruin people's lives and infrastructure, which requires comprehensive analysis and understanding to inform effective disaster management and response planning. This research addresses the lack of in-depth analysis of federally declared disasters in the...
Kron W (2000) Natural disasters: lessons from the past-- concerns for the future. The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance 25(4):570-581Kron W. Natural disasters: Lessons from the past-concerns for the future. The GENEVAKron, W. (2000) Natural Disaster: Lesson from the Past concerns ...
Disaster-related prenatal maternal stress explains increasing amounts of variance in body composition through childhood and adolescence: Project Ice Storm. Environ Res. 2016;150:1–7. Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Sharpe JD, Wolkin AF. The epidemiology and geographic patterns of natural ...
”“Economic losses are increasing as exposure increases. But behind the statistics lies a message of hope. Improved multi-hazard early warning systems have led to a significant reduction in deaths. Quite simply, we are better than ever before at saving lives,”Taalas said. 1. What 新客...
Using a new data set on annual deaths from disasters in 73 nations from 1980 to 2002, this paper tests several hypotheses concerning natural-disaster mitig... ME Kahn - 《Review of Economics & Statistics》 被引量: 1331发表: 2005年 Poverty and climate change : reducing the vulnerability of ...
Natural disaster Flooding Climate change beliefs 1. Introduction Despite a strong consensus within the scientific community on contemporaneous global climate change, public opinions on its existence and anthropogenic causes diverge (Cook et al., 2013). Nonetheless, the belief in the existence of climate...
it had rather been happening everywhere in the world for centuries. The tricky is that the degradation is currently going on at a faster rate leaving no time for the environment to recover and regenerate. The greater demand required by an ever-increasing human population from the environment is...
increasing the rate of social protection, and accessing health services (Ngoc,2022). Recently, Vietnam’s National Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control held a conference on solutions to natural disaster prevention and control in the Central Highlands, and the conference agreed...