Natural Hazards and Risks
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences A press database on natural risks and its application in the study of floods in Northeastern Spain
... on natural hazards and climate change in Catalonia (NE of Spain) and to analyze its potential applica- tion to social-impact ...of natural risk and climate change, and as a potential source of ...
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Evaluating UK natural hazards: the national risk assessment
... geography, natural hazards present multiple risks (Box 1) to human activity in the ...such hazards can be wide-ranging but may include disruption to critical infrastructure and transport ...
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Protecting New Zealand from Natural Hazards
... face either through the value placed on them or the insurance premiums paid. If the market is not allowed to signal risk through price, then the higher the cost will be when disaster strikes. If these signals are not ...
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Tree-ring analysis in natural hazards research – an overview
... studied through the analysis of tree-ring sequences (Stof- fel, 2006). First studies of rock–tree interactions focused on the identification and dating of large rock avalanches (e.g., Moore and Mathews, 1978; Butler et ...
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Mitigation and Financial Risk Management for Natural Hazards*
... The loss EP curve for DTE depicts the chances that aggregate claims exceed certain dollar magnitudes, based on earthquake damage to a set of insured structures in the company’s portfolio. If DTE offered other types of ...
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Assessment of social vulnerability to natural hazards in Nepal
... District Natural Disaster Relief Committee (DDNRC) needs to be strengthened with adequate resources in these districts more than ...Central Natural Dis- aster Relief Committee (CNDRC) that led to a delayed ...
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Geological and Geomorphological Factors of Natural Hazards in Ukrainian Carpathians
... of natural, in particular, geo- logical and geomorphological ...of natural hazards processes, as well as development models for spa- tial ...the risks of natural hazards are ...
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Assessing the risk posed by natural hazards to infrastructures
... and natural hazards, in particular those of the Federal Ministry of the Interior (2008), Lenz (2009), Merz et ...identify risks, implement preventive mea- sures and handle crises ...the risks ...
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Analysis of importance of road networks exposed to natural hazards
... Roads in mountains areas are exposed to natural hazards such as snow avalanches, torrent floods and rockfalls. Risk depends both on hazard, direct and indirect vulnerability. In case of roads, the indirect ...
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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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A global comparison of community-based responses to natural hazards
... The search resulted in 1671 articles for full text analy- sis. The aim of the literature search was to find studies that were conducted after people had experienced the negative ef- fects of a hazard event, and which ...
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Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
... Catalonia, in the northeast part of the Iberian Peninsula, and the Balearic Islands, in the Western Mediterranean Sea (see Fig. 1), are affected by intense cyclones (Genov´es et al., 2006; Campins et al., 2006a; Homar et ...
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Spatial patterns of natural hazards mortality in the United States
... of natural hazards in their analysis because the 1979 – 1998 data were not as detailed as those from 1999 – ...some natural hazard events might be a statisti- cal artifact of this classification ...
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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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The Insurance Market of Natural Hazards for Residential Properties in Italy
... Firstly, it should be noticed that the government role in disaster relief may find its ideological roots in the so- lidarity and subsidiary principles from which the policy of the states of catholic culture, and ...
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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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Capacities in facing natural hazards: a small island perspective
... There is a rich literature on the diverse capacities of communities—in mainland and small island communities, and in affluent and less affluent countries—in facing haz- ards. Wisner et al. (2012) argue that these ...
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Natural hazards in Australia : sea level and coastal extremes
... Projections of regional SLR and extremes 255 Mean SLR will continue to be the major driver of increasing extreme sea levels in the future, 256 with the most recent sea level projections [r] ...
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City of Warrenton natural hazards mitigation plan addendum
... City Hall (containing the Administrative Offices, Planning and Building Departments, Police Department, and Fire Department) and the Public Works Building across the street are in the tsunami inundation zone. These ...
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Natural radioactivity in ceramic tiles and associated radiological hazards
... The natural radioactivity levels in ceramic tiles produced in Turkey were determined and the related radiological hazards were ...The natural radioactivity levels ( 226 Ra, 232 Th and 40 K) in the ...
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