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The volumetric rainfall attributed to Hurricane Floyd in 1999 was computed for the bulk of the Tar, Neuse, and Cape Fear River Basins in eastern North Carolina, USA from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Multi-Satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) research product, and compared...
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Study on risk assessment of water resources system is the key to ensure the water resources security and its sustainable utilization. Under the principles of sustainable utilization of water resources, with the thinking of the risk, the Pansystems Observation-Control Model of Periphery is...
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One of the most promising developments for early warning of climate hazards is seasonal climate forecasting. Already forecasts are operational in many parts of the tropics and sub-tropics, particularly for droughts and floods associated with ENSO events. Prospects for further development of...
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model to assess the resilience of the participating cities to climate change caused by sea level rise and riverine flooding …. The resilience model is designed to integrate physical, economic, health, social and organizational impacts of climate … for use in the resilience simulator. Basic population data, disease burden and physical conditions are integrated in the …
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Disasters are unpredictable events that have catastrophic impacts. There is now a focus on disaster resilience and … capacity building in the recovery of the community. Resilience literature also suggests a staged model of disaster impacts and … likelihood of staged manifestations of resilience. It also points to a potentially important link between place-based social …
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Central to contemporary emergency management is the use of risk management principles to promote community resilience …-efficacy, problem-focused coping, sense of community and age in predicting resilience to the social consequences of volcanic hazard … suggest that resilience should be conceptualised and managed in a contingent rather than a prescriptive manner. The …
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which residents perceived as supporting community resilience to disaster. There is a gap in this research area centred in … the form of an increased incidence of flooding, an urgent need exists to examine the factors that confer resilience to … complexity of community resilience and its interrelationship with individual resilience, a multi-method approach was used: a …
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their resilience is low. Unsustainable production systems, inappropriate location of settlements, low incomes coupled with …
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The public and the decision and policy makers who serve themtoo often have a view of community risks that is influenced and distorted significantlyby media exposure and common misconceptions. The regulators and managers, responsible forplanning and coordination of a community's mitigation,...
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The study addresses disaster risks in Delhi through a resilience approach. It utilizes the Climate Disaster Resilience … Index (CDRI) tool, which assesses disaster resilience from five dimensions: physical, social, economic, institutional, and … the most resilient due to all five dimensions, where most significant parameters responsible for its high resilience are …
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