Resultados de búsqueda - "earthquake"
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Blind spots obscure understanding of how forests affect human health
Publicado 2023“…For example, the loss of coastal mangroves exacerbated morbidity and mortality following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami,6 and forest loss amplified the effects of the 2021 flooding across Europe,7 contributing to injury, increased prevalence of waterborne diseases, and death.…”
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Rehabilitating agriculture and promoting food security following the 2010 Pakistan floods: Insights from South Asian experience
Publicado 2010“….* Recovery experiences from previous natural disasters in Pakistan and throughout South Asia, especially the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan and the 1998 flood in Bangladesh, suggest lessons in four broad areas that are relevant for recovery efforts following the 2010 Pakistan flood. …”
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The effects of the 2004 tsunami on a coastal aquifer in Sri Lanka
Publicado 2012“…On December 26, 2004, the earthquake off the southern coast of Sumatra in the Indian Ocean generated far-reaching tsunami waves, resulting in severe disruption of the coastal aquifers in many countries of the region. …”
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Groundwater: a juggernaut of socio-economic development and stability in the arid region of Kachchh
Publicado 2022“…In 2001, the seismically active region of Kachchh experienced a large earthquake measuring 7.7 Mw but, the region has shown considerable development post-disaster. …”
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Pathways from agriculture-to-nutrition: Design and conduct of the National PoSHAN surveys of Nepal
Publicado 2018“…Each year between ~ 4286-5097 consenting households were assessed for agricultural practices, socioeconomic conditions and food security; diet by 7-day food frequency and nutritional status by anthropometry (weight, height and arm circumference) of women (n=4509-5458) and children (n=5401- 5468) using standardized procedures. Due to a major earthquake in April 2015, a truncated sample (wards n=27) was reached in 2015. …”
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Temporal changes in environmental health risks and socio-psychological status in areas affected by the 2011 tsunami in Ishinomaki, Japan
Publicado 2013“…On March 11 2011, a tsunami caused by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake devastated the northeastern coast of Honshu, Japan.The present study was conducted to assess environmental health risks of the areas affected and socio-psychological status of the dislocated people in Ishinomaki. …”
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How relative poverty influences responses to social protection programmes: Evidence from Pakistan
Publicado 2023“…Increasingly common disasters (many climate-related) across the globe – such as Pakistan’s devastating 2022 floods (UNICEF 2023), ongoing severe drought in the Horn of Africa (UN News 2022), and the recent earthquake in Syria and Turkey (Francis et al. 2023) – also disproportionately affect already vulnerable groups (UNDRR 2023). …”
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Haiti: The impact of COVID-19 and preliminary implications: Interim report
Publicado 2021“…In addition, the country suffered a series of very damaging natural disasters during this period, particularly the lethal earthquake of 2010 (from which Haiti has never fully recovered), but also a series of tropical storms and hurricanes (tropical storm Jeanne in 2004; hurricane Dennis in 2005; further tropical storms in 2008; hurricane Sandy in 2012; and hurricane Matthew in 2016, the strongest in decades). …”
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2012 Global hunger index: The challenge of hunger: Ensuring sustainable food security under land, water, and energy stresses
Publicado 2012“…The devastating January 2010 earthquake, although not yet fully captured by the 2012 GHI because of insufficient availability of recent data, pushed Haiti back into the category of “extremely alarming.” …”
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Springs, Storage Towers, and Water Conservation in the Midhills of Nepal
Publicado 2016“…We also drew inspiration from the insights of Jari Lukka, Team Leader, while preparing a handbook for recharge pond construction for the WASH Program of the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project in Western Nepal (RWSSPWN) supported by FINNIDA. The massive earthquake that struck Nepal on 25 April 2015 caused a major disaster in the villages in the areas where this research was carried out. …”
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Collective action, property rights and risk
Publicado 2010“…Risks can be characterized by their frequency and probability; some occur frequently (rainfall variation), some with less frequency (elections resulting in change in government), and others rarely (revolutions, earthquakes). The more frequent the occurrence, the more likely that people know the distribution of possible outcomes and, thus, the probabilities of specific outcomes.…”
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CACCI country profile Brazil
Publicado 2023“…This territory is exposed to floods, earthquakes, landslides, droughts, and diseases, which put the population and national development at risk. …”
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Phytosanitary Management of ICARDA’s Germplasm Seed Collections for Better Future Use
Publicado 2023“…Recent years have witnessed an increasing global concern about the loss of plant genetic resources, as a result of conflicts, epidemics, earthquakes, etc., which led to disrupting access to some germplasm and undermining social protection systems, and thus an increase in global awareness to preserve germplasm for their current and future use. …”
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Indigenous knowledge systems and indicators of rain: Evidence from Rwenzori Region, Western Uganda
Publicado 2020“…Among the abiotic indicators, winds, clouds, earthquakes, and cloud formation on Mount Rwenzori were important indicators. …”
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Growing City and Rapid Land Use Transition: Assessing Multiple Hazards and Risks in the Pokhara Valley, Nepal
Publicado 2015“…We investigate some of the active hazards, such as floods, landslides, fire, sinkholes, land subsidence and earthquakes, and prepare an integrated multiple hazard risk map indicating the highly vulnerable zones. …”
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Phytosanitary management of ICARDA’s germplasm seed collections for safe movement and better future use
Publicado 2023“…Recent years have witnessed an increasing global concern about the loss of plant genetic resources because of conflicts, human pandemic diseases, extreme weather events, pest and disease outbreaks, and natural calamities such as earthquakes, floods, etc., which led to disrupting access to germplasm and undermining social protection systems. …”
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Banana collecting mission in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (AROB), Papua New Guinea.
Publicado 2017“…However, environmental hazards are numerous in the region (earthquakes, tsunamis, drought, hurricanes…) and local agricultural systems often appear more resilient in face of hazards than conventional ex-situ collections.…”
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Food and nutrition emergencies in East Africa: Political, economic and environmental associations
Publicado 2009“…In regions of the world that experience earthquakes, hurricanes and typhoons (Africa does not), help may be obtained from outside the country, but the national governments themselves oversee the reconstruction and recovery aspects. …”
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