Prone Areas
Simplified graphical tools for assessing flood-risk change over large flood-prone areas
... According to the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT dataset; http://www.emdat.be), the most impacting natural disasters in terms of number of people affected and eco- nomic damages are the freshwater floodings (such as ...
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Guidelines for Future Community Housing in Flood Prone Areas of Kashmir
... flood prone areas in addition to not collapsing on occasion of flooding can help sustain the inhabitants within their own houses till the time some kind of help reaches which sometimes may take ...some ...
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Multi-hazard fragility analysis for fluvial dikes in earthquake- and flood-prone areas
... multi-hazard-prone areas the losses from single haz- ardous events can dramatically increase due to possible inter- actions between different types of hazards and the occurrence of cascading ...
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Mapping of Flood Prone Areas in Surulere, Lagos, Nigeria: A GIS Approach
... Increase in the frequency of flooding incidents all over the world and indeed in Nigeria is a major cause for concern. The purpose of this research work is to identify the factors that lead to flooding; and using ...
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Guiding developments in flood-prone areas: Challenges and opportunities in Dire Dawa city, Ethiopia
... The principles of ethics and systematic research process were considered in this study to avoid harming human beings, animals and the natural environment of Dire Dawa City Administration flood prone areas. ...
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The performance of bolt-reinforced and shotcreted in-stope pillar in a rockburst prone areas
... Rockbursts are considered to be the worst problems currently facing deep to ultra-deep gold mining in South Africa. This comes with other problems associated with it. The falls of ground (FOGs) and, to a larger extent, ...
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Physics-Based Simulation of Heat Load on Structures for Improving Construction Standards for Bushfire Prone Areas
... bushfire prone areas in order to improve the resilience of the building to radiant heat, flame contact, burning embers, and a combination of these three bushfire attack ...
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Theory and Practice of Vulnerability to Disasters in Flood Prone Areas in Chikwawa, Malawi
... flood prone areas, they are vulnerable to flooding which is contrary to the people who actually stay in these ...flood areas in Malawi are along the shores Lake Malawi, the main rivers, and in low ...
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Validity and Reliability of the Disaster Preparedness Knowledge Instrument for Health Cadres in Volcanic Disaster-Prone Areas
... This study indicates that the disaster preparedness knowledge instrument for health cadres in volca- nic prone area was reliable and valid for measuring the knowledge of community health cadres. The instrument ...
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A model for assessing the systemic vulnerability in landslide prone areas
... Abstract. The objectives of spatial planning should include the definition and assessment of possible mitigation strate- gies regarding the effects of natural hazards on the surround- ing territory. Unfortunately, ...
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Reducing Children’s Negative Emotional States through Physical Education and Sport in Disaster Prone Areas
... A special therapeutic psychosocial PE and sports program was implemented as an intervention with a group of children in the Merapi volcano disaster-prone areas of Indonesia. A significant impact on negative ...
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An Optical High and Medium Spatial Resolution Approach for Erosion Prone Areas Assessment in Mustang, Nepal
... mountain areas in Nepal. The goal of this study is to identify potential areas for soil erosion in sub and macro wa- tershed in Mustang, Nepal using remote sensing (RS) and geographic information systems ...
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Application of a fast and efficient algorithm to assess landslide-prone areas in sensitive clays in Sweden
... stable areas has been improved or ...be prone to landslides into consideration, as shown in the pre- diction rate curves of ...as prone to landslides is significantly lower for ...
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Identification of traffic accident risk-prone areas under low-light conditions
... vulnerable areas within the city were identified based on the calculation of the injury rate for the ...2 areas uni- formly distributed within the study ...vulnerable areas within the study ...the ...
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Metal and Gas Detecting Robot Using Android Application to Track Dangerous Prone Areas
... ABSTRACT: In many situations we hear about landmines which cause damage to the life of people when they step on that bomb, usually this is experienced in deserted areas or near forest. To avoid this we have ...
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Classification of karst springs for flash-flood-prone areas in western Turkey
... catchment areas where perched vadose flow crosses phreatic divides, and by the shifting of divides with time as the flow stage varies (Palmer, ...tory areas provide further complexity (Gunn, ...
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Hydraulic performance of high-velocity channels in flood-prone areas
... The numerical model which introduced by Berger and Stockstill was further extended its application on simulating barge drawdown and currents in channel and backwater areas (Stockstill et. al. 2001). Vessel effects ...
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Marker Assisted Breeding to Develop Multiple Stress Tolerant Varieties for Flood and Drought Prone Areas
... Swarna, the popular rice variety, (released in 1979) and cultivated in 30 – 40% of rainfed lowland areas (~ 4.3 mil- lion ha) was chosen as a recipient to develop NILs using marker assisted backcrossing approach. ...
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Evaluation of Seismic Performance of Floating Column Building
... Abstract: In the modern multi-story construction, floating column is an unavoidable feature of buildings. Such features are highly undesirable in building built in seismic prone areas. This study highlights ...
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Scope of Mosques as a potential institution in cyclone prone settlements of Bangladesh
... Floods create scarcity of food. For this reason, people of flood prone areas preserve dry foods for use in flood emergencies. The food which is preserved before the flood are Muri (puffed rice), Chira ...
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