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Leaving the Slum: International Collaborative Design Initiatives to Shape Capabilities During Resettlement
In Kenya, rapid urbanization tends to exclude the poor from access to adequate housing in the cities. Thus, many poor hope to afford a home on...
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Improving Post-conflict Self-recovery Programming: Addressing the Complexities in Syria
Supporting shelter self-recovery in post-conflict situations remains an area of little research and operational guidance. The sparse guidance that...
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Can Urban Factors Enhance the Integration of Asylum Seekers in Cities?
With significant migrant arrivals to several European countries in the past decades, there is a need for counter-models that define integration in a...
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Researching Crises and Solutions with Urgency and Agency: An Introduction
Living with crises is becoming the norm in several settings by disaster, inequality and poverty, armed conflicts, or wicked combinations of these....
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Centrifuge Modeling of Slopes Subjected to Groundwater Flow and Rainfall Infiltration
Due to the severe harm that they cause to society and the economy, landslides have become an infamous topic. Certainly, rainfall is one of the most...
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Physical Mechanism and Numerical Simulation of Landslide Dam Formation
Landslide dam formation creates one of the most hazardous geomorphic phenomena, which often threaten the safety of upstream and downstream...
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Assessment of the Structural Geological, Hydrogeological, and Geomorphological Relationships of the Athwelthota Landslide, Sri Lanka
Landslides pose a significant threat to Sri Lanka, causing loss of life and property damages. The Athwelthota landslide in Kalutara District,...
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Introducing Japanese Landslide Warning and Evacuation System to Sri Lanka: Field Survey of Social Aspect in the Arayanake Area
The central highland in Sri Lanka has a landslide-prone geo-hydrological condition. In addition, Sri Lanka has extreme rainfalls in two monsoon...
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Assessing Landslide Distribution for Landform Hazard Zoning Purposes: A Case Study on the Western Flank of Iztaccíhuatl Volcano, Puebla, México
In volcanic terrains, landslides are major natural hazard, posing risks to human settlements and economic activity. The characterization and analysis...
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Identification of Potential Natural Slope Failure Zones by Geomorphological Analyses Using Raster Slope Shading of LiDAR; Case Study from Kegalle, Sri Lanka
There are three approaches to defining the potential instability zonation of natural slopes. The first approach is to understand the failure...
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Increasing the Local Road Network Resilience from Natural Hazards in Municipalities in Serbia
This work is exampling a strategy for increasing climate resilience on local roads infrastructure in the Republic of Serbia, under the World Bank...
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Multiple Landslides in an Area Draped in Volcanic Matters: The Dual Impacts of Rains and Earthquakes
The devastating 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Earthquake, with a moment magnitude (Mw) of 6.7, inflicted significant damage in the eastern part of...
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Analyzing Urban Tsunami Evacuation Through Evacuees’ Spatial Behaviors
Evacuation is the most effective method to save human lives in case of a tsunami. Yet, challenges remain in understanding the populations’ actual...
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Can a Gender Perspective Fulfill the End-User’s Needs in Housing Reconstruction Projects?
The aim of this chapter is to explore if a gender perspective can affect the implementation process of housing reconstruction projects in less...
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Integrating Soft Infrastructure in Design to Build Community Resilience in Puerto Rico
Access to social capital, community competence, information and communication, and economic development are among the indicators that define a...
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Structural Measures for Wildfire Risk Reduction in Informal Contexts in Chile
In this chapter, we aim to contribute practical and applied understandings of structural measures implemented for wildfire disaster risk reduction...
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Female Leadership and Everyday Hazards: Care Practices and Solidarity Networks in Campamento Dignidad
Informal settlements are often excluded or marginalized from urban and risk governance despite the evidence of their high exposure to hazards as...
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An Evaluation of Hydrological Modeling Using CN Method and Satellite Images in Ungauged Barsa River Basin of Pasakha, Bhutan
Bhutan is poised to a rugged terrain country that exhibits variant of hydrology behaviors that demands to be effective utilization of different types...
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Novel Ensemble of M5P and Deep Learning Neural Network for Predicting Landslide Susceptibility: A Cross-Validation Approach
The landslides frequently affect Kurseong and the villages around it causing loss of life and property. The current study used the M5P technique, a...
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Measuring Landslide Susceptibility in Jakholi Region of Garhwal Himalaya Using Landsat Images and Ensembles of Statistical and Machine Learning Algorithms
Landslide susceptibility in the Jakholi region of Garhwal Himalaya was assessed applying novel ensembles of statistical and machine learning...