Natural hazards
Goal-oriented networks and capacity building for natural hazards – examples in the Dresden region
... A further contributing structural factor was the mod- est degree of heterogeneity of actors. The group of re- peatedly interacting individuals that represented the seven KLIMAfit network actors shared a similar ...
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Natural hazards in a changing world: a case for ecosystem-based management.
... by natural hazards such as floods, droughts, wildfires and ...of natural hazards. Changes to four natural hazards (floods, droughts, wildfires and storm-waves) were investigated ...
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Would you rather be injured by lightning or a downed power line? Preference for natural hazards
... comparing natural and artifi- cial risks, the items and associated outcomes were often qualitatively and quantitatively ...rate natural to artificial risks on several psychometric ...These natural ...
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Natural hazards: o estudo geográfico dos riscos e perigos.
... os natural hazards, buscando resgatar a história do desenvolvimento desta linha de pesquisa, mostrando a preocupação premente com a relação população- ambiente e sua contribuição neste ...
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„Blue-green“ corridors as a tool for mitigation of natural hazards and restoration of urbanized areas: A case study of Belgrade city
... steep slopes, straight row farming down the slope and uncontrolled urbanization. Land owners have (with financial support from the authorities) the duty to apply contour farming and terracing of agricultural land ...
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Goal-oriented networks and capacity building for natural hazards – examples in the Dresden region
... for natural hazards at the regional level requires intensive sensemaking (Weick, 1995) of the network goal, especially if plan-making and program formulation are salient (Healey, 2009) and if ...
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KULTURisk regional risk assessment methodology for water-related natural hazards – Part 2: Application to the Zurich case study
... water-related natural hazards have been proposed within the scientific community, but very few of them can be adopted to fully implement the last European Flood Direc- tive ...of hazards, widely ...
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Mass-movement and flood-induced deposits in Lake Ledro, southern Alps, Italy: implications for Holocene palaeohydrology and natural hazards
... Abstract. High-resolution seismic profiles and sediment cores from Lake Ledro combined with soil and riverbed sam- ples from the lake’s catchment area are used to assess the recurrence of natural hazards ...
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Multidisciplinary characterisation of sedimentary processes in a recent maar lake (Lake Pavin, French Massif Central) and implication for natural hazards
... additional natural hazard may also be related to deep water degassing (either spontaneously or in- duced by an external factor, Sigurdsson et ...2009). Natural Hazards assessments in several large ...
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Transformation of fragile environments in the Alps and in the Sahel
... and Natural Hazards) offered the opportunity to set up two research projects on the representation of nat¬ ural ...various natural risks (avalanches, landslide movements, floods, foehn gales, ...
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Assessing the costs of hazards mitigation in the urban structure
... that natural disasters are becoming more frequent, deadly and costly; they are also more complex, and the impacts to society and the economy are increasingly more intertwined (Khan, ...of hazards on ...
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Beliefs on the local effects of climate change: causal attribution of flooding and shoreline retreat
... of natural hazards to climate change considering BVL, located 10 km from the coastline, and the coastal zone between Esmoriz and Vagueira ...relevant natural hazards: flooding and salt water ...
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Reconsidering the risk assessment concept: <br>Standardizing the impact description as a building block for vulnerability assessment
... Abstract. Risk assessments for natural hazards are becom- ing more widely used and accepted. Using an extended defi- nition of risk, it becomes obvious that performant procedures for vulnerability ...
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Slope vulnerability, mass wasting and hydrological hazards in himalaya: a case study of Alaknanda Basin, Uttarakhand
... about Natural hazards and livelihood options in the Alaknanda river ...of hazards and the techniques to control the hazards in Alaknanda river ...
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Post-disaster long-term recovery and reconstruction. Haiti after the earthquake in january 2010
... world, natural hazards associated to climate change effects are increasing in frequency and threatening urban development dynamics while increasing human losses and economic ...
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Vulnerabilidades e riscos: entre geografia e demografia
... os natural hazards (perigos naturais) – talvez entre os primeiros a estudar esses concei- tos –, os diferentes enfoques historicamente utilizados no estudo do risco (percepção do risco, risco e cultura, ...
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Volcanism and associated hazards: the Andean perspective
... Volc´an Chait´en, Chile, 2008-present. On 2 May 2008, Chait´en Volcano erupted explosively after less than 36 h of precursory seismicity (recorded by instruments ∼300 km distant) and produced an ash plume that rose 21 km ...
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Occupational hazards and health problems: perceptions of community health workers
... Occupational hazards and health problems: perceptions of community health workers Riesgos y agravios laborales: percepciones de los agentes comunitarios de salud Mariana Farias Gomes ¹, Amanda da Silva Rodrigues ...
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Assessing Mozambique's exposure to coastal climate hazards and erosion
... climate hazards and ...coastal hazards regularly, and where coastal erosion is a pressing ...the natural habitats to save lives from coastal hazard ...coastal hazards and coastal erosion in ...
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Cad. Saúde Pública vol.33 número5
... expected hazards as alcohol abuse, violence, crowd crushes, automobile accidents, civil unrest, structural collapse); (ii) endemic infectious diseases, including malaria, dengue, tuberculosis, measles, seasonal ...
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