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From:The Social Science Journal (Vol. 38, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHow does one define disaster and what does a disaster mean to society and the impacted population? Three recent works argue provocatively about the institutional constructions and reconstructions of disaster by the...
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From:International Journal of Health System and Disaster Management (Vol. 1, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedByline: Hedayat. Salari, Atefeh. Esfandiari, Alireza. Heidari, Hasan. Julaee, Seyed. Rahimi Background: Natural disasters are extreme geographical fragmentations with a high severity which can have catastrophic...
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From:Nature (Vol. 457, Issue 7226) Peer-ReviewedSIR--In response to the lack of a flagship achievement by economics, as noted by Jean-Philippe Bouchaud in his Essay 'Economics needs a scientific revolution' (Nature 455, 1181; 2008), Jesper Stage proposes in...
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From:Journal of International Affairs (Vol. 59, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAfter the Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004 donor countries subscribed to post-disaster relief appeals so copiously that all the money could not be spent quickly enough to justify the reasons for which it was...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 324, Issue 7332) Peer-ReviewedLast year's earthquake in Gujarat, which occurred a year ago last Saturday, resulted in widespread but neglected mental health problems, a conference of non-governmental organisations and mental health specialists...
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From:Skeptic (Altadena, CA) (Vol. 10, Issue 3)There is a place, it's said, where small boats, huge ships, and even powerful military aircraft sometimes sail out into calm, clear weather ... and then just vanish. Without a trace. This is the dreaded Bermuda...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 47, Issue 5)RESEARCHERS often have to wade through floor-to-ceiling stacks of books in search of a particular title. But a recent flood in India put a slight twist on that scene, as scholars found themselves wading through water to...
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From:American Journalism Review (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFire victims' harrowing tales can be more compelling than just the facts. I had been to lots of fires. Just not at my own home. As a journalist, you get used to being a spectator at disasters, but you never expect...
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From:Science (Vol. 225) Peer-ReviewedSinking of Volcanic Ash in Uncompacted Sediment in Williams Lake, Washington The ash from the 18 May 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens settled into several lakes that were under the plume of tephra as it passed over...
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From:Nature (Vol. 532, Issue 7598) Peer-ReviewedThe World Bank announced a Climate Change Action Plan on 7 April to help countries to meet their commitments under the United Nations climate agreement signed in Paris in December 2015, and to prepare for unavoidable...
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From:Nature (Vol. 537, Issue 7622) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Joern Birkmann (corresponding author) [1]; Torsten Welle [5]; William Solecki [2]; Shuaib Lwasa [3]; Matthias Garschagen [4] It is fitting that the United Nations Habitat III conference in October will be...
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From:Climate of the Past (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedByline: Q. Cai, Y. Liu, Y. Lei, G. Bao, B. Sun To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article, please visit this link:...
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From:International Journal of Health System and Disaster Management (Vol. 5, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedByline: Mark. Catedral Mamon, Regin. Vargas Suba, Ignacio. Son Introduction: The Department of Education of the Philippines implements one of the provisions of the Philippine disaster risk reduction and management...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Tomohiro Morita 1,2,3,*, Shuhei Nomura 4,5, Tomoyuki Furutani 6, Claire Leppold 1,7, Masaharu Tsubokura 1,2,3, Akihiko Ozaki 1, Sae Ochi 2, Masahiro Kami 3,8, Shigeaki Kato 9,10, Tomoyoshi Oikawa 1...
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From:Science and Children (Vol. 54, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedKeeping track of the weather is especially important in communities where severe weather endangers property and lives. Science education may mean talking with children about scary or tragic events. Although we should...
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From:Advances in Natural and Applied Sciences (Vol. 12, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe infantry unit involvement in operation other than war such as deployment at all types of disaster environment had shown the efficient disaster response. They are self contains supported by the comprehensive...
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From:Social Work Research (Vol. 26, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed"Commentators emphasize how our world changed on 9/11. Yet it's really our knowledge of the world, our sense of the world, not the world itself that changed on that tragic day." --Nancy Hooyman Whether the rest of...
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From:Journal of Risk and Insurance (Vol. 71, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT We estimate the demand for homeowners insurance in Florida and New York with indicated loss costs as our proxy for the quantity of real insurance services demanded. We decompose the demand into the demand...
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From:Journal of International Women's Studies (Vol. 9, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Several EU policy papers have called for an improved dialogue between security policymakers, social science researchers and science and technology researchers working on security (Pullinger, 2006). To...
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From:NACLA Report on the Americas (Vol. 43, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedMORE THAN 40 YEARS AGO, ON MAY 31, 1970, a large earthquake, registering 7.7 on the Richter scale, struck off the north coast of Peru. The quake devastated coastal and north-central Andean villages and towns, killing...