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Disaster resilience scorecard for industrial and commercial buildings

The Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Industrial and Commercial Buildings enables the establishment of a baseline for the resilience of buildings and campuses to natural hazards or disasters, so allowing improvements to be identified and prioritized.

UNDRR Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies (ARISE)
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The potential role of the commonwealth in responding to catastrophic disasters

The research question posed, and considered in this paper, is ‘in the absence of legislation, what is the role in, and more importantly what power might the Commonwealth have, when responding and recovering from a catastrophic disaster?' Currently the

Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre
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Assessment of flash flood susceptibility potential in Moldavian Plain (Romania)

Concentration of time (Tc) is a frequently used parameter in the evaluation of the hydrological response of different sizes hydrographic basin in case of rainfall events. The present study is innovative, because it has created an index that identifies the

Wiley
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Lesotho: Disaster risk financing diagnostic

This diagnostic study is prepared at the request of the Ministry of Finance (MoF), Government of Lesotho (GoL)and aims to identify options to strengthen the country's financial resilience to disasters.

World Bank, the
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Climate science research in the United States and U.S. territories: Survey of scientific publications from selected public universities (2014-2018)

Climate Science Research in the United States and U.S. Territories: Survey of Scientific Publications From Selected Public Universities (2014-2018) provides a snapshot of the scope and focus of climate science-related research in selected public research

National Council for Science and the Environment
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Amélioration des réponses de l'éducation de base aux risques de catastrophes

Au Sahel et en Afrique de l’Ouest, le secteur de l’éducation de base, un secteur prioritaire de développement, est relativement peu considéré dans les efforts relatifs aux connaissances et outils d’aide à la décision en lien avec la résilience aux

Centre Africain de Recherche Scientifique et de Formation
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Neighborhood ties reduced depressive symptoms in older disaster survivors: Iwanuma study, a natural experiment

Objective: As most studies relating to mental health and disasters have employed cross-sectional or follow-up assessments about psychological health with post-disaster information, the association between changes in social ties and mental health remains

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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Operationalizing crowdsourcing through mobile applications for disaster management in India

The lack of real-time data on emergent disasters often restrains the decision maker's ability to counter its impacts, especially in developing countries like India. In this regard, the idea of leveraging mobile applications ‘apps’ for crowdsourcing

Elsevier