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Assessment of Disaster Risk Reduction Practices in Mauritius
Disasters are phenomenon that occurs worldwide, and Mauritius being a small island state has not been spared from its wrath. Studies have been...
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Governance and Social Participation in Integrated Disaster Risk Management: A Case Study in Municipalities in Paraná (Brazil)
Incorporating the issue of governance into disaster risk management, strengthening stakeholder participation, and adopting integrated measures aimed...
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Application of ensemble fuzzy weights of evidence-support vector machine (Fuzzy WofE-SVM) for urban flood modeling and coupled risk (CR) index for ward prioritization in NCT Delhi, India
NCT Delhi, the heart of India, remains vulnerable to urban flooding from July to October, when southwest monsoon is active over its area of 1483 km 2 ....
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Compositional-geochemical characterization of lead (Pb) anomalies and Pb-induced human health risk in urban topsoil
Urban areas are characterized by a constant anthropogenic input, which is manifested in the chemical composition of the surface layer of urban soil....
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Urban Renewal: Turkey’s Solution for Housing Problems for Low-Income Groups and Disaster-Resilient Urbanization
Today, cities are growing rapidly, and many have become places that are unplanned, are overcrowded, lack adequate infrastructure, and are vulnerable...
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GIS-based fuzzy comprehensive evaluation of urban flooding risk with socioeconomic index system development
Due to the climate change–induced extreme rainfall, urban flooding risk is one of the major concerning risks in the near future with accelerating...
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Disaster management and environmental policy integration in Pakistan — an evaluation with particular reference to the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor Plan
Economic and social development, the state of the environment and a propensity for disasters are closely intertwined. Therefore, environmental policy...
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Urban flood risk management needs nature-based solutions: a coupled social-ecological system perspective
A growing number of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) has been advocated for urban flood risk management (FRM). However, whether NbS for FRM (NbS-FRM)...
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From risk control to resilience: developments and trends of urban roads designed as surface flood passages to cope with extreme storms
Urban roads can be designated as surface flood passages to transport excess runoff during extreme storms, thereby preventing local flooding, which is...
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Rural women and disaster: an ethnographic account of their experiences of cyclone ‘Fani’
The present paper aims to unveil the experience of rural women in a disaster cycle. The paper contains the ethnographic accounts of the women...
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Urban rainstorm and waterlogging scenario simulation based on SWMM under changing environment
Urban rainstorm and waterlogging occurred more frequently in recent years, causing huge economic losses and serious social harms. Accurate rainstorm...
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Integrating resilience into an urban flood risk assessment framework: a case study of the Minzhi region, Shenzhen City
History has witnessed a long list of flood events and resilience has been a topical concept in flood risk assessment. However, previous studies did...
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Blue and Green: Hues of Riverine Flood Risk Reduction in Chennai, India
The hyper-urbanisation of Chennai, India, and the consequent heavy burden of human activities have undermined ecosystem services and transformed...
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The effects of COVID-19 on the resilience of urban life in China
Understanding the impacts of COVID-19 on citizens from different cities is crucial for urban resilience-building and reducing inequal resilience...
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Aligning the Global Delta Risk Index with SDG and SFDRR global frameworks to assess risk to socio-ecological systems in river deltas
River deltas globally are highly exposed and vulnerable to natural hazards and are often over-exploited landforms. The Global Delta Risk Index (GDRI)...
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Ecological Risk Assessment of Debris Flow Disaster in Yanbian Region, China
The frequent occurrence of debris flow disasters in Yanbian region poses a great threat to the safety of local people’s lives and property as well as...
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Environmental Disaster Management and Risk Reduction
The environment can be well-defined as all forms that surround both living elements (such as humans or animals, fishes and birds) as well as...
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Increasing Atmospheric Extreme Events and Role of Disaster Risk Management: Dimensions and Approaches
Under most future emission projection scenarios, global temperature rise is imminent. Rising temperature is closely interlinked with balance in...
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Analysis on the spatial differentiation characteristics of poverty risk caused by disaster under the stress of geological disasters: a case study of Sichuan Province
Research on the poverty risk caused by geological disasters in disaster-prone areas is a useful exploration to coordinate social economic development...
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Assessment of urban flood susceptibility and role of urban green space (UGS) on flooding susceptibility using GIS-based probabilistic models
With rapid urbanization, the green space in urban areas is replaced with impervious built-up areas, which increases the frequency of urban floods....
