natural hazards
Modelling community preparation for natural hazards: Understanding hazard cognitions
... The present study is endeavouring to identify those factors that influence individuals’ decisions to prepare their households against the consequences of natural hazards. It is attempting to elucidate, for ...
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Evaluating UK natural hazards: the national risk assessment
... natural hazards that are defined as moderate risks are only addressed using generic emergency planning ...Until hazards are considered high-risk, there may be no specific planning, including ...
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Geological and Geomorphological Factors of Natural Hazards in Ukrainian Carpathians
... The zones of these processes are associated with definite formation complexes, characterizing by complicated spatial structure and history in ac- cordance with physical characteristics of the cor- responding rocks. Such ...
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The Insurance Market of Natural Hazards for Residential Properties in Italy
... Due to the high historic losses in Italy and the low insurance penetration rate, the policy bases a speech on the opportunity and/or necessity to introduce a compulsory (or semi-mandatory) insurance system to relieve the ...
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Vulnerability Of The State Of Mizoram, India To Various Natural Hazards
... Mizoram is one of the North Eastern States of India, located in 21º56' and 24º31' N latitude and 92º16' and 93 º 26’ E longitudes with the geographical area of 21,081 sq. km having population of 10,91,014. It is bounded ...
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Conceptualizing community resilience to natural hazards - the emBRACE framework
... Abstract. The level of community is considered to be vital for building disaster resilience. Yet, community resilience as a scientific concept often remains vaguely defined and lacks the guiding characteristics necessary ...
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Spatial patterns of natural hazards mortality in the United States
... The spatial patterns revealed in the results are not surpris- ing – greater risk of death along the hurricane coasts, in rural areas, and in the South – all areas prone to natural hazards as well as ...
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A global comparison of community-based responses to natural hazards
... The other two regions with a high proportion of commu- nities utilizing individual and material well-being responses are Asia (75 %) and Oceania (72 %). High population densi- ties in disaster-prone regions in Asia put ...
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The macro financing of natural hazards in developing countries
... Although the low rate of insurance penetration in developing countries to a large extent can be attributed to their level of wealth, when it comes to catastrophe risk coverage this correlation between insurance ...
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Protecting New Zealand from Natural Hazards
... of natural hazard risks, the changing nature of those risks and their ...from natural hazards should be developed that incorporates community education activities around risk reduction as well as ...
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Analysis of importance of road networks exposed to natural hazards
... The development of a new specific methodology and its ap- plication to a practical case study dedicated to road network is the first major input of this work. The GeographLab software has been extended in order to import ...
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Assessment of Forest Damage in Croatia Caused by Natural Hazards in 2014
... In the period between 31 January and 6 February 2014 significant damage of forest ecosystems caused by several natural hazards occurred on the area of five Croatian counties. In the Primorsko-goranska ...
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Natural Hazards and Mitigation Measures With Special Reference to Arunachal Pradesh
... Natural Hazards are severe and extreme weather and climate events that occur ...frequency. Natural Hazards can happen at any point of time, day or night, and thus, unexpected and unmanaged ...
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Monitoring and characterizing natural hazards with satellite InSAR imagery
... characterize hazards posed by volcanic, seismic, and hydrogeologic processes, by landslides and wildfires, and by human activities such as mining and fluid extraction or ...various natural processes and is ...
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Quantifying the effectiveness of early warning systems for natural hazards
... ical hazards, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, wildfires, vol- canic eruptions, and mountain ...where natural hazards are arranged accord- ing to the number and expressiveness of available precursors ...
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City of Warrenton natural hazards mitigation plan addendum
... County’s Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan adequately describes the causes, characteristics, history, and location of earthquake hazards for the ...
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Natural hazards and technological risk in Russia: the relation assessment
... and natural hazards are the sole cause for each separate technological ...however natural factors can increase the proba- bility of the occurrence technological ...by natural processes of the ...
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Tree-ring analysis in natural hazards research – an overview
... in natural hazards research, start- ing with a description of the different types of disturbances by geomorphic processes and the resulting growth ...
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NATURAL HAZARDS AND THEIR IMPACTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND AGRICULTURE IN NIGERIA
... of natural resources contribute to disaster ...of natural hazards in Nigeria and how pro-active measures can be taken to mitigate their impacts on the environment and farming in order to forestall ...
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Hazard function theory for nonstationary natural hazards
... the natural hazards literature indicate that certain processes show evidence of nonstationary behavior through trends in magnitudes over ...Other natural hazards such as floods resulting from ...
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