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Remote sensed data for automatic detection of land-use changes due to human activity in support to landslide studies
Tarantino, Cristina; Blonda, Palma; Pasquariello, Guido - In: Natural Hazards 41 (2007) 1, pp. 245-267
Slope instability studies appear to recognize a number of potential superficial slide-producing agents, which may be directly detected and monitored with Earth Observation (EO) data. The main objective of this work is to use conventional EO data and automatic techniques for providing land-use...
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Interaction between land-use change, flooding and human health in Metro Vancouver, Canada
Owrangi, Amin; Lannigan, Robert; Simonovic, Slobodan - In: Natural Hazards 72 (2014) 2, pp. 1219-1230
Many regions of the world are experiencing an increase in frequency and intensity of floods. There has been increasing understanding among emergency preparedness and natural disaster planners that rapid urbanization is enhancing the risk from river flooding in urban areas. Many regions of Canada...
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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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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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Resilience to natural hazards: a geographic perspective
Zhou, Hongjian; Jing’ai Wang; Wan, Jinhong; Jia, Huicong - In: Natural Hazards 53 (2010) 1, pp. 21-41
Resilience is increasingly used as an approach for understanding the dynamics of natural disaster systems. This article … presents the origin of resilience and provides an overview of its development to date, which draws on the wide literature on … disaster resilience of “Loss–Response” of Location (DRLRL) was created and disaster resilience was defined from three …
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Building resilience to natural hazards in Indonesia: progress and challenges in implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action
Djalante, Riyanti; Thomalla, Frank; Sinapoy, Muhammad; … - In: Natural Hazards 62 (2012) 3, pp. 779-803
–2015: ‘Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities’, in order to enable a more systematic planning, implementation and …, challenges and emerging issues in building resilience to natural hazards. The study is undertaken through literature reviews and … indicate that the building disaster resilience in Indonesia has been, to a large extent, driven by the existence of the …
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Quantifying cascading effects triggered by disrupted transportation due to the Great 2008 Chinese Ice Storm: implications for disaster risk management
Xie, Wei; Li, Ning; Li, Chunhua; Wu, Ji-dong; Hu, Aijun; … - In: Natural Hazards 70 (2014) 1, pp. 337-352
-scale disasters induce more strong cascading effects than minor ones. Post-disaster system resilience effectively stops the spread of … cascading effects. When the economic system resilience (e.g., improving the substitution between road transportation and other … cascading effects can be reduced by approximately 60 %. Overall, improving post-disaster system resilience is a highly efficient …
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People and community as constituent parts of hazards: the significance of societal dimensions in hazards analysis
Haque, C.; Etkin, David - In: Natural Hazards 41 (2007) 2, pp. 271-282
loss. Though the vulnerability/resilience paradigm has largely replaced the hazards paradigm within the social sciences and …
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An index of relative displacement risk to hurricanes
Esnard, Ann-Margaret; Sapat, Alka; Mitsova, Diana - In: Natural Hazards 59 (2011) 2, pp. 833-859
Indicator and index-building activities have become commonplace for assessing and estimating social, environmental, and economic strengths and vulnerabilities of communities, regions and even countries. In the context of disasters, much of the empirical research has focused on identifying places...
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Learning from (small) disasters
Voss, Martin; Wagner, Klaus - In: Natural Hazards 55 (2010) 3, pp. 657-669
In this article, disasters are understood as processes that have different impacts on social routines in terms of scale, scope and duration. The extent of adaptive processes in society can provide the ground for a rough classification of disaster types. Such classification has, on the one hand,...
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