Nigeria annual flood outlook 2024
The 2024 Flood Outlook report offers a comprehensive assessment of flood risk across the country, highlighting critical areas of concern and strategic recommendations for mitigation and preparedness. Through
Disaster Preparedness
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Benefits of action and costs of inaction: drought mitigation and preparedness – a literature review
This review of available literature on the benefits of action and costs of inaction of drought mitigation and preparedness shows that significant progress has been made over the past decade in improving
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Building resiliency through disaster risk reduction: an assessment of India’s microfinance sector
This report aims to develop an understanding of the existing disaster risk reduction (DRR) practices of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the Indian market and to map out the disaster-related vulnerabilities
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Spatiotemporal changes in both asset value and GDP associated with seismic exposure in China in the context of rapid economic growth from 1990 to 2010
<p>Accurate exposure estimation is essential for seismic risk assessment. Recent rapid urbanization and economic growth in China have led to massive spatiotemporal changes in both the asset value and GDP
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Zimbabwe: Satellite-Based Flood Monitoring Boosts Disaster Response
SINCE last October, torrential rains have pounded much of Zimbabwe, causing rivers, including Save, the country's biggest, to overflow, with dozens of dams spilling, and thousands of acres of cropland
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Monitoring the geodynamic behaviour of earthquake using Landsat 8-OLI time series data: case of Gorkha and Imphal
<p>Prediction of earthquake in advance is really a challenging task for the scientific community till now. But research results from various scientists regarding lineament extraction using satellite imageries
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Design considerations of artificial mangrove embankments for mitigating coastal floods – Adapting to sea-level rise and long-term subsidence
<p>Mangrove plantation belts are expected to act as natural infrastructural buffers against coastal hazards. However, their performance will not endure over time if the platform is not appropriately designed.
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Beyond preparedness: development impact of community-based disaster risk management in Pakistan
This report documents the impacts community-based disaster risk management (CBDRM) in five districts in Pakistan. The publication shows that the CBDRM process helps to address the disaster preparedness
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A comparison of flood and earthquake vulnerability assessment indicators
<p>In a cross-discipline study, we carried out an extensive literature review to increase understanding of vulnerability indicators used in both earthquake- and flood vulnerability assessments. We provide
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Hazard assessment comparison of Tazhiping landslide before and after treatment
<p>Through investigation and analysis of geological conditions and mechanical parameters of the Taziping landslide, the finite volume method was adopted, and, the rheological model was adopted to simulate
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Stochastic consideration of relationship between occurrences of earthquake and fluctuations in the radio wave propagation
<p>Research of the geophysical electromagnetic phenomena with seismic activity is important for hazard-resistant strategy. Many papers which indicate the existence of geophysical electromagnetic phenomena