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Abnormal labor outcomes as a function of maternal exposure to a catastrophic hurricane event during pregnancy
Zahran, Sammy; Peek, Lori; Snodgrass, Jeffrey; Weiler, … - In: Natural Hazards 66 (2013) 1, pp. 61-76
Hurricane Andrew, which made landfall on August 24, 1992, was one of the most destructive hurricanes in American history, causing atypically high levels of psychological and physical health impairment among the resident population and especially among vulnerable groups. This article investigates...
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Vulnerability, resilience and development discourses in context of climate change
Cannon, Terry; Müller-Mahn, Detlef - In: Natural Hazards 55 (2010) 3, pp. 621-635
perspectives, from vulnerability studies to resilience thinking. However, the paper argues, this shift is problematic for the …
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Coastal hazard mapping in the Cuddalore region, South India
Saxena, S.; Purvaja, R.; Suganya, G. Mary Divya; Ramesh, R. - In: Natural Hazards 66 (2013) 3, pp. 1519-1536
Tamil Nadu State through the identification and assessment of coastal hazards and the overall vulnerability to coastal …
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Understanding multiple thresholds of coupled social–ecological systems exposed to natural hazards as external shocks
Renaud, Fabrice; Birkmann, Jörn; Damm, Marion; … - In: Natural Hazards 55 (2010) 3, pp. 749-763
. Increasing the resilience and reducing the vulnerability of social–ecological systems (SES) so that they can withstand these …
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Application of the hybrid ABV procedure for assessing community risk to hurricanes spatially
Park, Sangki; Lindt, John; Li, Yue - In: Natural Hazards 68 (2013) 2, pp. 981-1000
In 2011, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that the coastal population of the US that lives within 50 miles of the shoreline exceeded 50 % for the first time in history in spite of a high level of exposure to hurricanes and related flooding. Hurricane Andrew...
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Risk assessment of a tsunamigenic rockslide at Åknes
Eidsvig, U.; Medina-Cetina, Z.; Kveldsvik, V.; Glimsdal, S. - In: Natural Hazards 56 (2011) 2, pp. 529-545
potential tsunamigenic rockslide, by assessing quantitatively hazard, vulnerability, and elements at risk. The proposed method …
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Extracting building stock information from optical satellite imagery for mapping earthquake exposure and its vulnerability
Ehrlich, D.; Kemper, T.; Blaes, X.; Soille, P. - In: Natural Hazards 68 (2013) 1, pp. 79-95
vulnerability from High and Very High Resolution (VHR) optical satellite imagery. We use two case studies. In Sana’a (Yemen), we use … automatic techniques to extract the building stock as well as building height that is used to characterize its vulnerability. In … can in principle map and provide vulnerability information related to the structural fragility of the building stock …
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Severity–duration–frequency curves in the mitigation of drought impact: an agricultural case study
Todisco, F.; Mannocchi, F.; Vergni, L. - In: Natural Hazards 65 (2013) 3, pp. 1863-1881
Severity–duration–frequency (SDF) curves are very useful in the analysis of drought phenomena. Station-level information obtained from SDF curves can be interpolated to obtain severity maps for fixed return period, in order to jointly analyse the spatial variability of drought...
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Perception of the rip current hazard on Galveston Island and North Padre Island, Texas, USA
Brannstrom, Christian; Trimble, Sarah; Santos, Anna; … - In: Natural Hazards 72 (2014) 2, pp. 1123-1138
The hazard posed by a rip current depends in part on the ability of beach users to identify a rip current and to associate surf conditions with the potential for rip currents. Understanding which visual features beach users associated with rip currents is an important step in the development of...
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Perception of flood risk in Danube Delta, Romania
Armaş, Iuliana; Avram, Eugen - In: Natural Hazards 50 (2009) 2, pp. 269-287
–environment coping relationship and also an important parameter in the quantification of complex vulnerability as a central predictive …, defined by different degrees of psychological vulnerability, represent the background for a series of psycho … statistical analysis of the results revealed two psychological factors as essential in establishing the psychosocial vulnerability …
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