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Erratic Asian summer monsoon 2020: COVID-19 lockdown initiatives possible cause for these episodes?
The summer (June through September) monsoon 2020 has been very erratic with episodes of heavy and devastating rains, landslides and catastrophic...
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Fundamental Problems of Development of the Mineral-Resource Base of High-Tech Industry and Energy of Russia
AbstractThe problem of provision of the Russian high-tech industry with critical minerals is becoming more drastic every year due to the steady...
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An AHP-based regional COVID-19 vulnerability model and its application in China
Since the COVID-19 outbreak, four cities—Wuhan, Bei**g, Urumqi and Dalian—have experienced the process from outbreak to stabilization. According to...
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Price Responsiveness of Shale Oil: A Bakken Case Study
We estimated oil supply from hydraulically fractured horizontal wells completed in North Dakota from March 2015 through May 2019. We modeled impacts...
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Appraising the historical and projected spatiotemporal changes in the heat index in Bangladesh
Climate change-derived extreme heat phenomena are one of the major concerns across the globe, including Bangladesh. The appraisal of historical...
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Disaster Risk Science: A Geographical Perspective and a Research Framework
In this article, we recall the United Nations’ 30-year journey in disaster risk reduction strategy and framework, review the latest progress and key...
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A universal severity classification for natural disasters
The magnitude of a disaster’s severity cannot be easily assessed because there is no global method that provides real magnitudes of natural disaster...
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Changes in air quality and human mobility in the USA during the COVID-19 pandemic
The first goal of this study is to quantify the magnitude and spatial variability of air quality changes in the USA during the COVID-19 pandemic. We...
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A Review of IRS-1C Applications in Urban and Regional Studies, and Infrastructure Planning
The multifaceted data from Indian remote sensing satellite (IRS)-1C with Panchromatic (PAN, 5.8 m, 0.50–0.75 μm), Linear Imaging Self-Scanning...
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Interactions of Clay and Clay Minerals with the Human Health
This chapter is initiated with the record and discussion of the diverse uses of healing clay, both for internal applications involving geophagy and...
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Hazards, Disasters, and Risks
In this chapter, we will elaborate on three basic terms in the field of disaster risk science: hazards, disasters, and risks. We will also discuss...
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Disaster Resilient Future in Korea
The Republic of Korea has not only monumentally progressed socially, economically, and politically since 1948, but has taken the arduous undertaking...
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Disaster Theory
To find a conclusive definition for contemporary purposes and uses, we look at many of the various definitions of disasters through cataclysmic...
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The potential of recurrent epidemics and pandemics in a highly mobile global society
The aim of this study was to demonstrate how latent epidemics can potentially evolve into a pandemic instantaneously due to globally mobile human...
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Impact of global change on transmission of human infectious diseases
Global change, which refers to large-scale changes in the earth system and human society, has been changing the outbreak and transmission mode of...
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Spatial-temporal characteristics of epidemic spread in-out flow—Using SARS epidemic in Bei**g as a case study
For better detecting the spatial-temporal change mode of individual susceptible-infected-symptomatic-treated-recovered epidemic progress and the...
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Spatio-temporal evolution of Bei**g 2003 SARS epidemic
Studying spatio-temporal evolution of epidemics can uncover important aspects of interaction among people, infectious diseases, and the environment,...