Disaster risk
Children in Disaster Risk Reduction in Portugal: Policies, Education, and (Non) Participation
... in disaster preparedness and risk reduction, to hear their voices in order to address their specific needs and vulnerabilities and harness their capabilities in terms of building community ...for ...
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Integrating community based disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: examples from the Pacific
... based disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation duplicate each ...based disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) projects are presented to highlight some ...
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A Case Analysis of Disaster Risk Reduction Preparedness of Iloilo Province: Basis for A Comprehensive Intervention Program
... of disaster risk reduction preparedness program of ten selected municipalities from the five congressional districts in the province of Iloilo, Philippines with a focus on the effectiveness of ...
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Disaster risk management and hydrographic basin analysis: the geotechnical map of suitability for the urbanization of Itapevi – São Paulo, Brazil
... The municipal government has the constitutional responsibility to manage land use, including the authority to establish restrictions, criteria and precautions for entrepreneurs or the government itself. The municipality ...
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A framework to include the (inter)dependencies of Disaster Risk Reduction measures in coastal risk assessment
... coastal risk management often involves the selection and appraisal of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) ...fluence risk reduction (primary measures) at the individual/household level and how these ...
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<i>Hazagora: will you survive the next disaster?</i> – A serious game to raise awareness about geohazards and disaster risk reduction
... Abstract. Natural disasters are too often presented as re- sulting from extreme natural phenomena affecting helpless populations, with people being insufficiently aware of the factors leading to disasters and of the ...
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Adaptation to climate change and disaster risk management in business education: a case study in Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), Brazil
... with disaster risk management content, and by doing so they will be included in the MSM syllabuses in order to leverage these themes within the ...for Disaster Risk Reduction, and by ...
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SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL VULNERABILITY AND DISASTER RISK REDUCTION: THE ROLE OF ESPÍRITO SANTO STATE (BRAZIL)
... in disaster risk reduction (DRR) (UNISDR, ...the disaster itself. This new paradigm brings the disaster under the social micro- scope without leaving aside the natural perspective, which ...
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School education for disaster risk reduction in Japan after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (GEJET)
... on Disaster Reduction was held in 2014, which was 20 years after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, 50 years after the Niigata earthquake, 10 years after the Chuetsu Earthquake, and 10 years after the Sumatra ...
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Including children in the governance of urban risks
... in Disaster Risk Reduction based on the case study of Amadora (Burnside-Lawry and Carvalho 2015), one of the few Portuguese cities (alongside Lisbon and a handful of others) that integrate the Resilient ...
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PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS IN LOCAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT: A PANACEA TO ALL LOCAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT ILLS?
... government competency. The areas include, amongst others, building regulations, municipal planning, storm-water management systems, gas and electricity regulation, firefighting services, environmental health, and water ...
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Arquitetura de software para integração de informações geográficas de sensores e...
... To overcome this difficulty, this paper outlines a service- oriented architecture, as part of a geospatial platform for disaster risk management, which aims to support the integration [r] ...
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Urbanism, climate change and floods: Case of Tlemcen city
... (2012), Climate change, disaster risk, and the urban poor: cities building resilience for a changing world (urban development), World Bank Publications, Washington, ISBN: 978-0821388457[r] ...
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Hotspots – predictions and action
... risk reduction (DRR). This means concentrating on reducing vulnerability rather than just reacting to emergencies, especially in poor countries that are hazard- prone but are experiencing an increase in extreme ...
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Urban Risk Reduction Through Effective Disaster Management Plan-A Case Study Of Shimla City Himachal Pradesh India
... from disaster management point of ...the disaster management plans at district and state ...reduce disaster risk by regulating the expansion of human settlements and infrastructure lacks ...
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La scrittura del dis-astro e il freddo bagliore di un firmamento senza stelle
... Writing of disaster is composed of fragments, that are the only possible form to describe it; but what is really meant by “disaster”? There are several possi[r] ...
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Clinics vol.70 número1
... H. pylori infection is increasingly prevalent in the eastern part of Turkey, though there are few data on the modern epidemiology and the changes in the presentation of the disease, particularly its association with ...
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GOOGLE MAPS FOR CROWDSOURCED EMERGENCY ROUTING
... The main strength of the built WebGIS compared to other web disaster management solutions is its ability to perform spatial analysis in the form of routing. The users are not only gathering data for others e.g. ...
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Post-disaster long-term recovery and reconstruction. Haiti after the earthquake in january 2010
... All over the world, natural hazards associated to climate change effects are increasing in frequency and threatening urban development dynamics while increasing human losses and economic expenditure. The objective of ...
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Parallel Planning Mechanisms as a "Recipe for Disaster"
... The problem was resolved by the recent landmark decision in City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality v Gauteng Development Tribunal 4 which lay to rest all the ne[r] ...
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