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Natural hazards: This entry lists potential natural disasters. Natural resources: This entry lists a country's mineral, petroleum, hydropower, and other resources of commercial importance. Net migration rate: This entry includes the figure for the difference between the number of persons entering and...
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Natural disasters are inevitable, but can be substantially reduced or mitigated by arranging human activities rationally to create the conditions for a harmonious coexistence of human and nature. Based on the studies of human’s adaptation to hazard
Besides directly affecting human lives, natural disasters also have long-term economic ramifications on different industries. In the event of large natural disasters, SC failures are widely seen as an evident shock to production industries (Permani & Xu,2022). Globalization has posed a growing chall...
Environmental stress associated with soil contamination, either from natural or anthropogenic origins, can directly affect biodiversity and ecosystem functions3, and further compromise the resistance and resilience of ecosystems to climate change and natural disasters1. Moreover, soil contamination in urban ...
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natural disasters unfortunate but inevitable [1]. Some common sudden-onset disasters worldwide include earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, cyclones or typhoons, tornados, fires, tsunamis or storm surges, avalanches, volcanic eruptions, extreme cold or blizzards, and heat waves. In contrast, slow-onset ...