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Evaluation of public participation in reconstruction of Bam, Iran, after the 2003 earthquake

Omidvar, Babak; Zafari, Hossein; Khakpour, Mehdi - In: Natural Hazards 59 (2011) 3, pp. 1397-1412

In the midst of the ever-increasing natural and human-induced disasters, where many of the preparedness and mitigation measures show inefficiencies, there is narrow margin for decision-makers to make mistakes by misallocating budgets, designing infeasible reconstruction plans, and in other...

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The Azores archipelago, Portugal: improved understanding of small island coastal hazards and mitigation measures

Calado, H.; Borges, P.; Phillips, M.; Ng, K.; Alves, F. - In: Natural Hazards 58 (2011) 1, pp. 427-444

Coastal zones are vital to small islands due to limited land availability and ocean exposure. Their significance and resident dependence result in a need to address unique small island coastal zone concerns. Recent population concentrations and increased economic activity along with accompanying...

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Disaster Management and Community Planning, and Public Participation: How to Achieve Sustainable Hazard Mitigation

Pearce, Laurie - In: Natural Hazards 28 (2003) 2, pp. 211-228

The paper offers first a brief historical overview of disaster management planning. Second, it reviews Australian and American research findings and show that they urge the field of disaster management to shift its focus from response and recovery to sustainable hazard mitigation. It is argued...

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Risk Assessment, Emergency Preparedness and Response to Hazards: The Case of the 1997 Red River Valley Flood, Canada

Haque, C. Emdad - In: Natural Hazards 21 (2000) 2, pp. 225-245

The prevention and/or mitigation offlood disasters requires continual research, numerouscapital investment decisions, and high-qualitymaintenance and modifications of flood-controlstructures. In addition, institutional and privatepreparedness is needed. The experience offlood-control in North...

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The district of North Vancouver’s landslide management strategy: role of public involvement for determining tolerable risk and increasing community resilience

Tappenden, Kristen - In: Natural Hazards 72 (2014) 2, pp. 481-501

This paper examines the public involvement processes contained within the Landslide Management Strategy for the District of North Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. Following a fatal landslide in the Berkley neighborhood in 2005, the District of North Vancouver convened a community-based...

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Disaster recovery as participation: lessons from the Shaky Isles

Vallance, Suzanne - In: Natural Hazards 75 (2015) 2, pp. 1287-1301

Despite broad scholarly consensus that public participation in disaster recovery is highly desirable, in practice, appropriate and effective forms of community involvement are difficult to achieve. Drawing on both non-disaster participatory planning theory and disaster recovery literature, this...

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Who are the resident stakeholders in a flood project? A spatial analysis of resident stakeholders

Lee, Chia-Chi; Chen, Liang-Chun - In: Natural Hazards 59 (2011) 1, pp. 107-128

The importance of public participation has been discussed and well understood for some time, and many people have moved beyond the development of ideas to putting them into practice. During the past few years, stakeholder theory, one of the most popular theories originating from the field of...

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Behavior of crossing flood on foot, associated risk factors and estimating a predictive model

Shabanikiya, Hamidreza; Seyedin, Hesam; Haghani, Hamid; … - In: Natural Hazards 73 (2014) 2, pp. 1119-1126

the flood. Data were gathered by a questionnaire in Quchan, a city of Iran. People with the age of 18–35 years old, those …

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Earthquake ground-motion prediction equations for northern Iran

Yazdani, Azad; Kowsari, Milad - In: Natural Hazards 69 (2013) 3, pp. 1877-1894

Earthquake ground-motion prediction equations for soil and rock sites in northern Iran have been developed based on … Bayesian approach framework by using the recorded ground motion in northern Iran. The residual plots show that the updated … prediction equations agree well with available northern Iran ground-motion data. Additionally, the proposed prediction equation …

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Synoptic and remote sensing analysis of dust events in southwestern Iran

Ghasem, Azizi; Shamsipour, AliAkbar; Miri, Morteza; … - In: Natural Hazards 64 (2012) 2, pp. 1625-1638

Southwest regions of Iran, due to dry environmental and climatic conditions, have been identified as one of the five … major regions in the world. In recent years, large parts of Iran have been affected by suspended particles from the dust … storms. The studied area is located in foothills of the Zagros Mountain Range just north of Persian Gulf in southwest of Iran …

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