To make rational decisions about investments in mitigation or disaster preparedness, decision makers need to understand not just the physical impacts of na... SP French,D Lee,K Anderson - 《Natural Hazards Review》 被引量: 11发表: 2010年 II. Macroeconomic Impact of Natural Disasters...6 This ...
These hazards have a higher chance of manifesting into serious forms of injuries, and in some cases, death.The level of these threats depend upon the nature of the work being executed within the premises of the site along with the very nature of the site. Some of these hazards may include...
Understand what a natural disaster is and explore the types of natural disasters. Learn about the examples of natural disasters and see the natural...
Drought is one of the worst disastrous of various natural hazards. Drought is generally considered to be a period of moisture deficiency. Drought occurs whenever the supply of moisture from rainfall or stored in the soil becomes insufficient to fulfil the optimum water needs of the plants. Drought...
I am afraid that through the back-and-forth arguments and counterarguments on disjunctive types, natural kinds, mental causation, downward causation, over-determined causation, multiple realization, and so on, the original insights of the two fundamental arguments--the argument from multiple realizabili...
Natural hazardsArticleApril 25, 20245 min read There are three common types of flooding. By understanding the differences, you can better protect yourself from the next potential flood. Share this Floods affect more people globallythan any other natural hazard. They can cause widespread devastation ...
Disasters are increasing around the world. Children are greatly impacted by both natural disasters (forces of nature) and man-made (intentional, accidental) disasters. Their unique anatomical, physiological, behavioral, developmental, and psychological..
9. Rodkin, M.V., Typification of Catastrophic Manifesta tions of Natural Hazards, in Prirodnye opasnosti Rossii. WATER RESOURCES Vol. 38 No. 7 2011 TYPES OF PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS IN THE EVALUATION 971 T. 6. Otsenka i upravlenie prirodnymi riskami (Natural Hazards in Russia, vol. 6...
Types of disasters usually fall into two broad categories: natural and man-made. Natural disasters are generally associated with weather and geological events, includ- ing extremes of temperature, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, landslides, and drought. Naturally occurring ...
The analysis utilized the returns of each variable, which were computed using natural logarithms. Table 1 Full names and abbreviations Full size table Table 2 provides an exhaustive overview of descriptive statistics for the variables under consideration. The mean values, spanning a range from 0.032 ...