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Morvan, Carla. "Natural Hazards and Local Public Policies." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Lyon 2, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024LYO20009.

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Les gouvernements locaux sont affectés par les catastrophes naturelles. De plus, les municipalités sont le niveau de gouvernement le plus proche des citoyens et donc le mieux placé pour répondre en cas de crise. Cette thèse a pour objectif d'éclairer la question de l'influence des catastrophes naturelles sur les choix de politique publique locale. A la fois les choix budgétaires, les décisions en termes de prévention des risques et leurs conséquences électorales. Le premier chapitre examine l'impact des catastrophes naturelles sur les budgets des municipalités en France. Pour ce faire, j'utili
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Lagos, González Tomás Ignacio. "Designing resilient power networks against natural hazards." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2017. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/148468.

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Magíster en Gestión de Operaciones. Ingeniero Civil Industrial<br>Resiliencia en sistemas de potencia se está estudiando recientemente en la literatura, su principal preocupación es proporcionar la viabilidad de la red en caso de eventos de alto impacto y baja probabilidad (HILP). Las principales contribuciones de este trabajo son: (1) Proporcionar un marco novedoso que apoye la toma de decisiones estratégicas para maximizar la resiliencia del sistema eléctrico contra la amenaza de desastres naturales (el primero de acuerdo a la investigación realizada), en particular terremotos. (2) Proporci
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Bergmeister, Konrad, Manfred Curbach, Evelin Kamper, Dirk Proske, Dieter Rickenmann, and Sigrid Wieshofer. "3rd Probabilistic Workshop Technical Systems, Natural Hazards." Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, 2009. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A287.

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Modern engineering structures should ensure an economic design, construction and operation of structures in compliance with the required safety for persons and the environment. In order to achieve this aim, all contingencies and associated consequences that may possibly occur throughout the life cycle of the considered structure have to be taken into account. Today, the development is often based on decision theory, methods of structural reliability and the modeling of consequences. Failure consequences are one of the significant issues that determine optimal structural reliability. In particu
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Threatt, Patrick Lee. "NATURAL HAZARDS IN MISSISSIPPI: REGIONAL PERCEPTIONS AND REALITY." MSSTATE, 2008. http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-11092007-145929/.

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This study comprised of a survey of 807 students in geosciences classes at Mississippi State University to determine the perceived level of threat from eight natural hazards: hurricanes, hail, lightning, tornadoes, earthquakes, ice storms, floods, and wildfires. Responses were analyzed to detect spatial differences in perceptions of threats across the state of Mississippi for comparison. Actual occurrences of the natural hazards and preparations for dealing with these hazards were recorded by county and MEMA districts. Threat perceptions for hurricanes, ice storms, floods, and lightning showed
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Threatt, Patrick Lee. "Natural hazards in Mississippi regional perceptions and reality /." Master's thesis, Mississippi State : Mississippi State University, 2007. http://library.msstate.edu/etd/show.asp?etd=etd-11092007-145929.

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García, Castillo Jorge M. Eng Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Effects and mitigation of natural hazards in retail networks." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117797.

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Thesis: M. Eng. in Supply Chain Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Supply Chain Management Program, 2018.<br>This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-89).<br>The number of natural hazards has been increasing over the last 10 years. Understanding the impact of natural hazards on retail networks is crucial to make effective planning against disruptions. We used daily sa
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Hunter, Alasdair. "Quantifying and understanding the aggregate risk of natural hazards." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/15719.

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Statistical models are necessary to quantify and understand the risk from natural hazards. A statistical framework is developed here to investigate the e ect of dependence between the frequency and intensity of natural hazards on the aggregate risk. The aggregate risk of a natural hazard is de ned as the sum of the intensities for all events within a season. This framework is applied to a database of extra tropical cyclone tracks from the NCEP-NCAR reanalysis for the October to March extended winters between 1950 and 2003. Large positive correlation is found between cyclone counts and the loca
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Xia, Xilin. "High-performance simulation technologies for water-related natural hazards." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3798.

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Water-related natural hazards, such as flash floods, landslides and debris flows, usually happen in chains. In order to better understand the underlying physical processes and more reliably quantify the associated risk, it is essential to develop a physically-based multi-hazard modelling system to simulate these hazards at a catchment scale. An effective multi-hazard modelling system may be developed by solving a set of depth-averaged dynamic equations incorporating adaptive basal resistance terms. High-performance computing achieved through implementation on modern graphic processing units (G
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Allen, Matthew Charles. "Stakeholder perceptions of flooding issues in the Wildcat Creek Watershed." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/35444.

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Master of Arts<br>Department of Geography<br>John A. Harrington Jr<br>Wildcat Creek Watershed near Manhattan, Kansas, experiences damaging flash floods that have required evacuations in recent years (Spicer 2011). The purpose of this study was to qualitatively examine the issue of flooding in the Wildcat Creek Watershed through interviewing stakeholders (those that reside, own a business, or study) using a semi – structured approach. Interview discussion examined stakeholders’ perceptions of 1) how they understand the processes that create the flooding hazard, 2) whether or not they value the
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Lilly, Joseph. "Municipal planning for natural hazards, what is the best approach?" Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ39677.pdf.

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Hammel, Evan Martin. "A multi-attribute framework for risk analysis of natural hazards." Connect to online resource, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1446078.

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Kim, Chun Il. "Urban spatial structure, housing markets, and resilience to natural hazards." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109024.

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Thesis: Ph. D. in Urban and Regional Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2017.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>This dissertation consists of three essays on urban structure, housing, and environment. The first paper contributes to the existing debate on the co-location hypothesis by devising a proximity measure and controlling for a set of other urban form measures. Multiple regression analysis revealed that job-worker proximity leads to shorter commuting time. In addition, results from s
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Liu, Huan. "Economic Analysis of Resilience to Natural Hazards in Industrial Sectors." Doctoral thesis, Kyoto University, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/263777.

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Duenas-Osorio, Leonardo Augusto. "Interdependent Response of Networked Systems to Natural Hazards and Intentional Disruptions." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/7546.

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Critical infrastructure systems are essential for the continuous functionality of modern global societies. Some examples of these systems include electric energy, potable water, oil and gas, telecommunications, and the internet. Different topologies underline the structure of these networked systems. Each topology (i.e., physical layout) conditions the way in which networks transmit and distribute their flow. Also, their ability to absorb unforeseen natural or intentional disruptions depends on complex relations between network topology and optimal flow patterns. Most of the current resea
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Vitoontus, Soravit. "Risk assessment of building inventories exposed to large scale natural hazards." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/43676.

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Earthquakes are among the most devastating and unpredictable of natural hazards that affect civil infrastructure and have the potential for causing numerous casualties and significant economic losses over large areas. Every region that has the potential for great earthquakes should have an integrated plan for a seismic design and risk mitigation for civil infrastructure. This plan should include methods for estimating the vulnerability of building inventories and for forecasting economic losses resulting from future events. This study describes a methodology to assess risk to distributed ci
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PEDE, ELENA CAMILLA. "Building resilience towards natural hazards: cross-­‐scale knowledge and institutional linkages." Doctoral thesis, Politecnico di Torino, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11583/2611359.

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Our environment is becoming increasingly complex: the rapid urbanisation, often accompanied by uncontrolled use of land, occupation of unsafe environments as well as the increased rate of occurrence of climate events are introducing elements of uncertainty (Pinna, 2002). The idea of certainty or security that was fundamental to risk management in the past, collapses. In this context, the notion of ‘risk society’, introduced by Ulrich Beck in 1992, is considered as a shifting paradigm in world security, where our modern society becomes ever more interdependent and more complex, and consequently
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Vogel, Kristin. "Applications of Bayesian networks in natural hazard assessments." Phd thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2013. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2014/6977/.

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Even though quite different in occurrence and consequences, from a modeling perspective many natural hazards share similar properties and challenges. Their complex nature as well as lacking knowledge about their driving forces and potential effects make their analysis demanding: uncertainty about the modeling framework, inaccurate or incomplete event observations and the intrinsic randomness of the natural phenomenon add up to different interacting layers of uncertainty, which require a careful handling. Nevertheless deterministic approaches are still widely used in natural hazard assessments,
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Cencerrado, Barraqué Andrés. "Methodology for time response and quality assessment in natural hazards evolution prediction." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/284023.

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En aquesta tesi doctoral es descriu una metodologia per a l’evaluació del temps de resposta i la qualitat en la predicció de l’evolució d’emergències mediambientals. El treball s’ha centrat en el cas específic dels incendis forestals, com un dels desastres naturals més importants i devastadors, però és facilment extrapol·lable a altre tipus d’emèrgencies mediambientals. Existeixen molts entorns de predicció que es basen en l’ús de simuladors de l’evolució del fenòmen catastròfic. Donat el creixent poder quant a capacitat de cómput que ens ofereixen els nous progressos computacionals, com
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Bowman, Harry Albert. "Optimizing Transportation Infrastructure Improvements For Networks Under The Threat of Natural Hazards /." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487929745332846.

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Grahn, Tonje. "Risk assessment of natural hazards : Data availability and applicability for loss quantification." Doctoral thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för miljö- och livsvetenskaper, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-48324.

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Quantitative risk assessments are a fundamental part of economic analysis and natural hazard risk management models. It increases the objectivity and the transparency of risk assessments and guides policymakers in making efficient decisions when spending public resources on risk reduction. Managing hazard risks calls for an understanding of the relationships between hazard exposure and vulnerability of humans and assets.   The purpose of this thesis is to identify and estimate causal relationships between hazards, exposure and vulnerability, and to evaluate the applicability of systematically
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Pineda, Carlos Eduardo Rodriguez Pineda. "Hazard assessment of earthquake-induced landslides on natural slopes : modelling growth and maturation in primate and human evolution." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/8872.

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Bell, Heather. "Efficient and effective? the hundred year flood in the communication and perception of flood risk." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000522.

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Angignard, Marjory [Verfasser]. "Applying risk governance principles to natural hazards and risks in mountains / Marjory Angignard." Dortmund : Universitätsbibliothek Technische Universität Dortmund, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1018126872/34.

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Tolo, S. "Uncertainty quantification and risk assessment methods for complex systems subject to natural hazards." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2016. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3005411/.

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The interaction between natural events and technological installations involves complex mechanisms which have the potential to affect simultaneously more critical systems, nullifying the redundancy measures common to industrial safety systems and endangering the integrity of facilities. The concerns related to this kind of events are far from being restricted to a merely economic or industrial nature. On the contrary, due to the sensitivity of most processes performed in industrial plants and the negative consequences of eventual releases of hazardous materials, the impact of simultaneous fail
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Budimir, Mirianna. "Cascading natural hazards : probability and loss modelling for earthquakes and earthquake-triggered landslides." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2015. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/378652/.

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Wedholm, Johanna. "Policy change after natural hazards : A systematic large-N study using narrative analysis." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-412404.

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The main purpose of this thesis is to empirically describe the extent to which and how countries affected by natural hazards refer to these natural hazards as drivers for policy change. In order to realize this, a systematic large-N extensive study with the innovative method of narrative analysis was used to analyze the national progress reports on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2013-2015 by searching for the extent to which and how countries affected by natural hazards refer to these natural hazards as drivers for policy change. With a starting point in theories derived
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Harvatt, Joanne Elizabeth. "Natural hazards and the public in the UK : mtegrating understanding and precautionary response." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.521967.

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Wang, Wei. "Automated spatiotemporal and semantic information extraction for hazards." Diss., University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1415.

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This dissertation explores three research topics related to automated spatiotemporal and semantic information extraction about hazard events from Web news reports and other social media. The dissertation makes a unique contribution of bridging geographic information science, geographic information retrieval, and natural language processing. Geographic information retrieval and natural language processing techniques are applied to extract spatiotemporal and semantic information automatically from Web documents, to retrieve information about patterns of hazard events that are not explicitly desc
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Ishiwata, Hiroaki. "Dynamic Stochastic Macroeconomic Analysis of Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction in Developing Countries." Kyoto University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/232025.

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Grahn, Tonje. "A Nordic Perspective on Data Availability for Quantification of Losses due to Natural Hazards." Licentiate thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för miljö- och livsvetenskaper, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-41138.

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Natural hazards cause enormous amounts of damage worldwide every year. Since 1994 more than 1.35 billion people have lost their lives and more than 116 million homes have been damaged. Understanding of disaster risk implies knowledge about vulnerability, capacity, exposure of persons and assets, hazard characteristics and the environment. Quantitative damage assessments are a fundamental part of disaster risk management. There are, however, substantial challenges when quantifying damage which depends on the diversity of hazards and the fact that one hazardous event can negatively impact a soci
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Jiang, Fan. "Three Essays on the Behavioral Responses to Coastal Hazards and Vulnerability." FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3759.

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This dissertation consists of three papers in environmental and natural resource economics. The first paper estimates the value of statistical lives (VSL) from hurricane evacuation behavior through an empirical analysis. I present empirical models that predict individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) for avoiding hurricane risks revealed through their evacuation behavior. Using survey data from Texas residents (who were affected by Hurricane Ike), I analyze the individuals’ hurricane evacuation decisions and their corresponding WTP for evacuation. I also estimate the individuals' WTP for avoiding
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Soto, Gómez Agnes Jane. "Geographical Distribution of Disasters Caused by Natural Hazards in Data-scarce Areas : Methodological exploration on the Samala River catchment, Guatemala." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Luft-, vatten och landskapslära, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-260708.

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An increasing trend in both the number of disasters and affected people has been observed, especially during the second half of the 20th century. The physical, economic and social impact that natural hazards have had on a global scale has prompted an increasing interest of governments, international institutions and the academia. This has immensely contributed to improve the knowledge on the subject and has helped multiply the number of initiatives to reduce the negative consequences of natural hazards on people. The scale on which studies supporting disaster risk reduction (DRR) actions are p
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Lee, Ji Yun. "Risk-informed decision for civil infrastructure exposed to natural hazards: sharing risk across multiple generations." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/53965.

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Civil infrastructure facilities play a central role in the economic, social and political health of modern society and their safety, integrity and functionality must be maintained at manageable cost over their service lives through design and periodic maintenance. Hurricanes and tropical cyclones, tornadoes, earthquakes and floods are paramount among the potentially devastating and costly natural disasters impacting civil infrastructure. Even larger losses may occur in the future, given the population growth and economic development accompanying urbanization in potentially hazardous areas of t
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O'Grady, Kevin Lawrence. "Facing natural hazards : uncertain and intertemporal elements of choosing shore protection along the Great Lakes /." Diss., This resource online, 1992. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-165904/.

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Nehl, Ryan E. "Analysis of naturally-occurring and technology-based hazards in Indiana's District 6 region." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1380106.

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Naturally-occurring and technology-based hazards affect public health and safety to varying degrees. Naturally-occurring hazards include weather-related events and infectious disease epidemics/pandemics. Examples of technology-based hazards include hazardous materials incidents and electrical power outages. Due to limited resources, emergency planners have to prioritize hazards that may affect local jurisdictions. The purpose of the reported study was to construct a hierarchy of public safety hazards at the county and district levels to aid emergency planners. Public safety representatives fro
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Marcer, Marco. "Déstabilisation des glaciers rocheux dans les Alpes Françaises : une évaluation à l'échelle régionale et locale." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018GREAU048/document.

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Le permafrost de montagne est menacé par le réchauffement atmosphérique, une évolution qui s’accompagne de l’augmentation des phénomènes tels que les chutes de pierres, la formation de thermokarsts et l’accélération des glaciers rocheux. La déstabilisation des glaciers rocheux, qui compromet l’intégrité structurelle de ces formes, semble liée au réchauffement atmosphérique, et a suscité un intérêt grandissant au cours des dernières années. Ce phénomène, qui peut être provoqué par le réchauffement du pergélisol ou des contraintes mécaniques externes, est caractérisé par une accélération anormal
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Stolle, Jacob. "Debris Hazard Assessment in Extreme Flooding Events." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39621.

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Coastal areas are often important to economic, social, and environmental processes throughout the world. With changing climate and growing populations in these areas, coastal communities have become increasingly vulnerable to extreme flooding events, such as tsunami, storm surges, and flash floods. Within this new paradigm, there has been an effort to improve upon current methods of hazard assessment, particularly for tsunami. Recently, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) released the ASCE 7 Chapter 6 which was the world’s first standard, written in mandatory language, that addresse
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Pardoe, Joanna [Verfasser]. "Multiple and more frequent natural hazards : The vulnerability implications for rural West Africa communities / Joanna Pardoe." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2016. http://d-nb.info/112454013X/34.

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Settembrino, Marc. "When There's No Home to Prepare: Understanding Natural Hazards Vulnerability Among the Homeless in Central Florida." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5864.

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The current study explores the social construction of natural hazards vulnerability by examining the perceptions of emergency management personnel, homeless service providers and homeless men living in Central Florida. The matrix of vulnerability is proposed as a framework for studying disaster vulnerability, wherein vulnerability is viewed as a complex process consisting of social and physical risk, human agency and time. Using the matrix as a guiding framework, this study examines the risks that natural hazards present to the homeless living in Central Florida and the strategies used by the
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Landry, Joselin Simoneaux. "An Examination: Using Participatory Action Research in a Marginalized Coastal Community at Risk to Natural Hazards." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2008. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/856.

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This extended case study examines the appropriateness of using Participatory Action Research (PAR) in a small, marginalized coastal community at risk to natural hazards. PAR is a method of conducting high-quality research to support the social change goals of diverse cultural and ethnic communities, especially as they relate to community involvement, democracy, emancipation, and liberation (Lindsey and McGuinness (1998). PAR is not the typical research methodology for hazards research. The community's goal was to "Save our heritage and our land". They consisted of 75-80 members who prim
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Castillo, Rodríguez Jesica Tamara. "INTEGRATED FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT: TOWARDS A RISK-INFORMED DECISION MAKING INCORPORATING NATURAL AND HUMAN-INDUCED HAZARDS." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/82305.

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Flood risk reduction is a global challenge. Society demands higher safety and security levels, including those actions related to flood defence infrastructure protection against natural hazards and manmade threats. Dams and levees, among other flood defence infrastructures, are critical hydraulic infrastructures, aiming at reducing the likelihood that people and property will get flooded, but whose failure would result in consequences for the community downstream, including not only economic damages but also loss of life. There is always a probability associated with infrastructure failure,
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Findley, D. Maximillian. "Rationalizing Disaster: Assessing the physical, economic, and cultural impact of natural hazards in Luzon, 1645-1754." Thesis, Findley, D. Maximillian (2020) Rationalizing Disaster: Assessing the physical, economic, and cultural impact of natural hazards in Luzon, 1645-1754. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2020. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/54529/.

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This dissertation asserts historic natural hazards and the disasters they created are a potent and flexible analytical tool for studying the Philippine archipelago during the mid-colonial period (ca. 1640-1764). Historic hazards, because they occurred in the islands with sufficient regularity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, were not just discrete, disruptive events, but processes that acted over time. These hazards, when viewed as processes, illustrate how a colonial society altered and adapted itself to cope with prolonged disruptions. When comprehended as events, though, respons
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Korzeniowska, Karolina [Verfasser], and Oliver [Akademischer Betreuer] Korup. "Object-based image analysis for detecting landforms diagnostic of natural hazards / Karolina Korzeniowska ; Betreuer: Oliver Korup." Potsdam : Universität Potsdam, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1218402792/34.

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Dhanhani, Hamdan Al Ghasyah. "Evaluation of the response capability of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the impact of natural hazards." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/241787.

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The UAE is an Islamic state which has undergone dramatic urbanisation in the last 30 years. It is situated near the eastern margin of the Arabian tectonic plate, close to the seismically active collision zone between the Arabian and Eurasian plates, marked by the Zagros Mountain belt of Iran. In the UAE the population of Dibba in Fujairah has felt tremors as recently as November 26 2009 and an earthquake with a magnitude (M) of 5 occurred in Masafi, Fujairah, in March 2002. The most recent earthquake was M 4.3, and awareness of seismic hazard is increasing. In addition to earthquakes, rapid he
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Homan, Jacqueline. "Realism, social constructionism and 'natural' hazards : a study of people-nature relations in Egypt and the U.K." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366403.

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Recent literature in the social sciences has emphasized the socially constructed nature of knowledge. Consequently, this has had a bearing upon the understanding of science; interpretations of the natural world; and issues associated with understanding 'the Other'. The relevance of these wider social debates can be extended into a consideration of 'natural' hazards in different cultural contexts. This thesis attempts to develop a 'middle ground', drawing on theories of critical realism, that appreciates the socially constructed nature of scientific practice, but that retains the empancipatory,
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Мартиненко, Володимир Олександрович, Владимир Александрович Мартыненко, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Martynenko та К. В. Черніговець. "Управління ризиками надзвичайних ситуацій природного та техногенного характеру". Thesis, Сумський національний аграрний університет, 2015. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/60169.

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Da, Silva Garcia Bruna. "Analyse des mécanismes d'interaction entre un bloc rocheux et un versant de propagation : application à l'ingénierie." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019GREAI062/document.

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De nombreuses incertitudes liées aux mécanismes d'interaction entre les blocs rocheux et le versant naturel lors des chutes de blocs persistent ; la prévision de tels événements reste de ce fait encore incertaine. Néanmoins, les outils numériques et la puissance de calcul ne cessent d'évoluer. Si, auparavant, les calculs trajectographiques étaient restreints à des géométries simplifiées et à des mouvements balistiques en deux dimensions, il devient désormais possible d'y intégrer des raffinements tels que la forme complexe des blocs, des modèles numériques tridimensionnels de terrain d’une gra
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Phillips, Melissa Catherine Koeka. "Lightning and hurricane safety knowledge and the effects of education modes on elementary school children." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1465337764.

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Straßer, Michael. "Quantifying Late Quaternary natural hazards in Swiss lakes subaquatic landslides, slope stability assessments, Paleoseismic reconstructions and lake outbursts." Zürich Schweizerische Geotechnische Kommission, 2008. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/view/eth:30202?q=strasser.

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BIGI, VELIA. "Understanding vulnerability to natural hazards: the importance of a local scale perspective for the production of relevant information." Doctoral thesis, Politecnico di Torino, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/11583/2963944.

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