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Displaying 15 of about 21 results… make decisions. Given the sizeable threat posed by extreme heat events, the report details the human impacts of heat waves, ranging from individual and community health to … 2.2. Global and regional patterns of heat waves 2.3. Heat wave preparedness and response 2.4. Challenges with measuring …
This paper investigates the association between exposure to cumulative disaster and the first onset of depression in a nationally representative survey in South Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa faces unprecedented disasters, with climate change expected to exacerbate the frequency and severity of unpredictable and stressful catastrophic events. Unlike develop…
… studies of previous catastrophes (such as the Chicago heat wave in 1995) have demonstrated that lack of social … connectedness impacts community resilience to extreme heat and extreme cold. The way a city is planned plays a …
… Floods Land slides Storm surges Drought* Heat wave Cold wave Cyclones Extreme Storms Thunder and … Floods Land slides Storm surges Drought* Heat wave Cold wave Sudden Onset (non climate) Volcano …
… in Tuvalu, as found in the literature, are listed below: • Heat-related health concerns: As the number of hot days increases and cool nights decrease in frequency, heat stroke and other heat-related issues are a concern. … on Melekeok reef in the Palau Islands: An indicator of wave activity associated with tropical cyclones’. Marine …
… and mortality occurred across two waves, with the first wave occurring in April and spread reasonably evenly across … Australia’s eight States and Territories, but the second wave (in July/August) being concentrated mainly in Victoria … COVID-19 period, however, and particularly after the first wave of infections and into the second wave of infections, …
… and a fast-urbanising city. The city has become an urban heat island and is facing associated challenges including … which were further constrained by COVID-19 and the second wave of the pandemic • The project teams needed to implement … would answer, it is in the sky and we receive energy and heat. Then we would tie a ribbon and explain how the sun ray …
… Gaibandha and Jamalpur Districts prior to the second flood wave. The cash support aimed at supporting their immediate … injury, but cannot afford treatment. Prior to the second wave of flood, he received BDT 4,500 from SUFAL via bKash (a … This has benefitted around 1,826 people in the first wave and 2,290 people in the second wave of the flood. A …
The main objective of this assignment is to undertake a comprehensive assessment of existing centralized and decentralized early warning systems as part of transfer of technologies for enhanced climate risk monitoring and reporting on water resources in drought and flood prone areas, with aim to support the mitigation of climate shocks, and strengthen r…
… on precipitation, excessive rainfall, hailstorm, cold wave and pandemic related advisories among others. �e Digital …
… southeast banks of Osaka Bay, respectively. The tsunami wave height from a potential Nankai Trough earthquake is … and information disclosure. By tak- ing on this new wave of participatory, bottom-up approaches in risk …
… energy and momentum. Residents reported a large ‘tidal wave’ of material advancing down the river channel … 7). kamayama/Malama residents report a large ‘tidal wave’ of material advancing down the river channel … flow pushed the floodwater and residents reported a ‘tidal wave’ or ‘wall’ of material including mud, boulders and tree …
… studies: Comment on H. M. Collins and R. Evans, ‘The third wave of science stud- ies’. Social Studies of Science, 33(3), …
… is high confidence in the IPCC (2021) that “Concurrent heat waves and droughts have become more frequent over the …
… 20134 4. Tropical Storm Debbie in 1994 and the tropical wave in 1996, for example, resulted in cumu- lative damages …