نتایج جستجو برای: natural disaster

تعداد نتایج: 507205  

Journal: :Science 1999

The International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, a United Nations program for the 1990s, focused attention on the increasing losses caused by natural hazards and promoted actions to reduce their impacts. During this period in the United States, disaster managers and other officials increased emphasis on mitigation relative to response and recovery, especially in programs of the Federal ...

Journal: :Lancet 1997
M J Bouma R S Kovats S A Goubet J S Cox A Haines

BACKGROUND Natural disasters have profound effects on health and require medical intervention as part of relief operations. The world's populations are becoming increasingly vulnerable to extreme weather events, which are responsible for most natural disasters. The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the most prominent global climate system associated with year-to-year weather variability an...

Ardalan, Ali, Ebadi, Abbas, Fazel, Mojtaba, Khorasani-Zavareh, Davoud, Malek-Afzali, Hossein, Mohammadinia, Leila,

Background: Annually, Children as a major group have affected in disasters all over the world. As resilience terminology has been appeared in disaster risk reduction to improve more attention on human ability instead of concentration on his vulnerability. It seems that child resiliency may be the best approach to decrease their vulnerability. Although there are lot studies on resiliency, child ...

2005
Bishnu Pandey Kenji Okazaki

Sustainable development and disaster reduction are essential preconditions for each other. Natural disasters severely hamper the progress and achievements of sustainable development while, at the same time, physical infrastructure we are constructing may itself constitute a source of risk in the event of future disasters. This is particularly true in the case of earthquakes, where the majority ...

ژورنال: امداد و نجات 2019
Jame Kordkandi, Fatemeh , Naji Azimi, Zahra , Nejad Shokouhi, Fatemeh Nejad Shokouhi,

INTRODUCTION: Iran has always been prone to natural disasters, such as hurricanes and earthquakes, which are followed by heavy financial and bodily harms. In this regard, it is crucial to have disaster management in the schools of Iran to protect the significant number of young people studying in schools. Therefore, school principals must be constantly prepared for disasters and develop disaste...

Journal: :IJAGR 2012
Sam Herold Michael C. Sawada

Disasters are deadly and destructive events, particularly in developing countries where economic, social, political and cultural factors increase natural hazard vulnerability. The recent devastation of the Haiti earthquake on January 12th, 2010 was a prime example of the human toll a natural disaster can take in developing regions of the world. There is an imminent need to improve natural disas...

Background and objective: Damage caused by various natural disasters around the world, especially in rural areas, are increasing. In order to reduce the damage caused by natural disasters, the awareness of people to deal with natural disasters must be upgraded, in which, rural women with awareness and awareness in the field of natural disaster management, can play an effective role in reducing ...

Journal: :Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 2006

2000
Haruo Hayashi Satoshi Tanaka Kazunori Urabe Haruhide Yoshida Satoshi Inoue Hideki Shima Nobuhisa Deki Jun Kasagi Takahiro Nishino Masasuke Takashima

The purpose of this study is to apply digital city concept for the development of a pictogram system for natural disaster reduction. Long lasting and tangible achievement of IDNDR is needed which may be used in all over the world for many coming generations. As Neurath said “Words divide, pictures unite”, pictograms could be a powerful communication tool as well as an educational tool to improv...

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