Safe and Resilient cities
Empowering local governments to make disaster resilient cities
... level and help to integrate disaster risk reduction into the policy framework. Physically preventive measures are designed to reduce the vulnerability and exposure of infrastructure to natural hazards. These include ...
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Carolina Planning Vol. 34: Resilient Cities
... the evacuation of a property that poses a threat to the health and safety of those occupying it” (Wilson and du Plessis, 2005: 4). Hillbrow’s “bad buildings” are currently occupied by approximately 25,000 residents, and ...
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Analyzing resilience of urban networks: a preliminary step towards more flood resilient cities
... In this system, the power and influence of a city are based on its ability to provide a safe environment for its citizens and an efficient support for its activities. Urbanity is then linked with resources ...
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RESILIENT ROTHERHAM?
... identify resilient communities? We need first to ask, resilient to what? And our reply is that in this report our concern is with poverty and associated ...as resilient are those that are ...identify ...
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The Politics of Environment in Ethiopia: The Policies and Practices Appraisal Since 1991
... Climate Resilient Green Economy initiative, the “Country Environmental Analysis (CSA)” indicates that the country’s “resilient green transformation” goals are faced with different challenges; in the word of ...
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REVIEW OF INCLUSIVE PLANNING
... Abstract: Development is a continuous process and planning is necessary for the managed development. Concept of urban planning was developed to address the needs of increasing urban population for a foreseeable future. ...
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The Resilient Engineer
... A low carbon economy is now developing to reduce the effects of climate change which means a shift in energy mix across the globe. New financial models are being created to rebalance economies. Countries are creating ...
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BENDING BEAMS INTERCONNECTED BY RESILIENT CONNECTIONS AND LYING ON RESILIENT FOUNDATION
... В данной работе расчетная схема стыка рельсов принята в виде двух стержней конечной длины, лежащих на винклеровском основании и соединенных между собой узлом с двумя упругими связями, со[r] ...
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Estimation of Resilient Modulus of Unbound Granular Materials from Senegal (West Africa)
... the resilient modulus, which replaces henceforth Young’s modulus, in order to better characterize the real behavior of unbound ...The resilient modulus is the pri- mary input on materials properties in the ...
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The Association of World Health Organisation (WHO) Safe Community Programme with Death Rate from Motorcycle Accidents in Iran
... Many studies have investigated the characteristics of motorcyclists such as their attitudes, knowledge, beha- viors, riding frequency, traffic experience, and age of licensure. Motorcycles are considered an easy and ...
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Do sister cities matter for international municipal networking? analysis of cities of newfoundland and labrador province in canada
... between cities if they ask for this service (SCI- official ...the cities went through the second alternative which focuses mostly on internal initiative coming from inside the city ...sister cities ...
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Empowering local governments to make a disaster resilient built environment within Sri Lankan Cities
... disaster resilient built environment, associated challenges and ways of empowering municipal councils to ensure effective contribution towards city ...disaster resilient built environment within Sri Lankan ...
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News about Tap and Bottled Water: Can This Influence People’s Choices?
... Bullers [57] points out that, according to the IBWA, North Americans consumed 5 billion gallons of bottled water in 2001, which means the same amount of water that pours from Niagara Falls every two hours. It is ar- gued ...
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A study on deformation characteristica of waste glass reinforced hot mix asphalt (HMA)
... This test is carried out to evaluate the rutting performance of asphalt mixture by using the percentage of waste glass that given the best value of resilient modulus MR in the Resilient [r] ...
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Resilience of smart cities and mock drills as strategic tool
... Sustainable Cities and Communities focuses to make cities and human settlement safe, resilient and sustainable ...make cities safe and resilient in context of disaster ...
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Information-theoretic Local Non-malleable Codes and their Applications
... Abstract. Error correcting codes, though powerful, are only applica- ble in scenarios where the adversarial channel does not introduce “too many” errors into the codewords. Yet, the question of having guarantees even in ...
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Building resilient communities
... of resilient communities and re-localized economies that thrive within ecological bounds” (PCI, “About”), of the sort envisioned by the Limits to Growth model discussed in the previous ...
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A resilient data aggregation method based on spatio temporal correlation for wireless sensor networks
... = 4 and constant d is equal to 10. It can be observed from the experimental results that when the malicious nodes are restricted to fewer clusters, its influence is relatively small and the final absolute deviation is ...
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Governing Climate Change Risks: Subnational Climate Policies in Brazil
... other cities are still part of the ...These cities also joined another project, "Model Communities in Local Renewable Energies (Rede Elo)", in order to promote the generation and use of energy from ...
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Canterbury Regional Statement of Opportunities for Energy
... Regional Policy Statement - encourage a reliable and resilient national electricity network Regional Policy Statement - encourage efficient, reliable and resilient electricity within Can[r] ...
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