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Hot cities, chilled economies: Impacts of extreme heat on global cities

… report assesses the social and economic effects of extreme heat through the prism of twelve cities that are already enduring and addressing dramatic impacts of heat waves. The danger posed by extreme heat in urban centers—particularly in the global South—defies …
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Multi-hazard risk approach and inclusive community engagement in disaster risk management: Experiences and lessons learned by a recent wildfire event in the Greek island of Rhodes amidst COVID-19 pandemic crisis

… experience. As a result, prolonged droughts, intense heat waves, destructive wildfires, exceptional rainfall and … European and International level, like prolonged droughts, heat waves in terms of increasing trends in frequency, … and shorter cold seasons [1]. Figure 1. Intensive heat wave over Europe recorded in summer 2021 [2] According to …
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Hybrid reconnaissance mission to the 30 October 2020 Aegean Sea earthquake and tsunami (Izmir, Turkey & Samos, Greece): description of data collection methods and damage

… and from Karlovasi and Vathy in northern Samos with wave heights reaching up to 1.9 m (Dogan et al., 2021). The … their location as they were also impacted by the tsunami wave. Moreover, a significant part of their historical centre … distances, (B) USGS topography-based average shear wave velocity (VS30) distribution of the region, (C) The …
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A wildfire vulnerability index for buildings

… garden or under the patio) Maranghides et al. (2013)26 20 Heat release rate of materials Vacca et al. (2020)57 21 Water …

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