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Displaying 15 of about 200 resultsThis research focuses on using flood damage reports in conjunction with contour maps, geographical information systems, Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data, photographs, and spatial averaging to develop total (high) flood elevation data sets. It is important that a sustainable community better prepare for and design mitigation processes for major f…
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AIDMI organising an online roundtable titled “Global Recovery and Preparedness for the Pandemic”, Friday, November 18, 2022, 03:00 pm to 04:00 pm IST, focussing on the various recovery and preparedness concerns related to the pandemic across the world. Focussing on recovery is important because preli…
How a community recovers after a disaster like Hurricane Ian is often a “chicken and egg” question: Which returns first – businesses or households?
Businesses need employees and customers to be able to function. Households need jobs and the services businesses provide.
As an urban planning researcher who focuses on housing recovery after disasters, I…
Benthic foraminifera from the South China Sea were studied to assess mass mortality and to monitor the composition and recovery of the benthic communities following the 1991 Mt Pinatubo ashfall. Surface distribution data from monitoring stations in the eastern South China Sea that were occupied during four cruises between spring 1994 and summer 1998 dis…
The June 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines, was the second largest of the 20th century, emplacing 5--6 km 3 of pyroclastic-flow material and creating record high sediment yields on rivers draining the volcano. This thesis explores landscape response to and recovery from sediment loading in the 1991 eruption from the drainage basin scale to mo…
In September 2017, Puerto Rico was impacted by Hurricanes Irma and Maria within the span of two weeks. Irma passed Puerto Rico on September 6, 2017 as one of the largest hurricanes to ever form in the Atlantic. Maria followed and made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017 as a Category 4 Hurricane, the largest and most damaging storm to strike t…
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This Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) Featured Speaker Webinar presented Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Benjamin E. Diokno. He discussed the macroeconomic outlook, financial technology (fintech) development, and sustainable recovery in the Philippines and broader Asia and the Pacific in the face of new uncerta…
Two years ago, Hurricane Maria became the third major hurricane to strike the U.S. in less than a month. This powerful storm brought further destruction to the U.S. Virgin Islands before making a crushing impact on Puerto Rico. Survivors saw homes, businesses and crops wiped out, and many were left without power or access to vital services—including saf…
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As countries begin to recover from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, policy makers must decide what type of economic recovery they want to pursue. Will they choose measures that continue with existing “business-as-usual” economic structures that have a negat…
Extreme rainfall occurred in Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and neighbouring countries during the period 12 to 15 July 2021, leading to severe flooding particularly in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany and along the river Meuse and some of its tributaries in Belgium and the Netherlands. The most affected areas are around the river…
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How do cities remain liveable, sustainable, and more resilient in these trying, unsettling times of pandemic and climate change?
WCS 2022 seeks to address this with its theme of Liveable and Sustainable Cities: Emerging Stronger. The Summit is a convening point for global mayors, business leaders and knowledge experts to exchange an…
This report maps both the national framework for disaster recovery and the framework applicable in one autonomous community: the Valencian Community. The report uses, as a case study, the 2019 'Cold Drop', which resulted in extensive flooding in the Vega Baja area of the Valencian Community. The recovery phase, or 'return to normality phase' as it is co…
This report involves systematic desk review and expert interviews for a better understanding of the patterns in disaster recovery research and practice in the period June 2015 to June 2022. In-depth reviews of scientific papers and gray literature were undertaken using the Scopus and PreventionWeb databases following the Preferred Reporting Items for Sy…
When Hurricane Maria made landfall on September 20, 2017, it caused widespread devastation across Puerto Rico, killing as many as 1,052 people, destroying hundreds of thousands of homes, causing an island-wide blackout, and blocking over half of the 3.4 million residents from access to potable water.
At the six month mark, the situation remains critica…
Puerto Rico has a wealth of cultural, historical, and artistic resources that are integral to its cultural identity and sense of place, to tourism, to the arts industry, and to the economy. In September 2017, many of those resources were devastated in Hurricanes Irma and Maria. In this report, the authors present an overview of Puerto Rico's cultural re…