Sökning: "disaster risk"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 259 uppsatser innehållade orden disaster risk.

  1. 1. Holistic Assessment of Critical Infrastructure Resilience during Disasters (HACIRD) - A case study of the 2023 Kahramanmaras earthquakes

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Riskhantering (CI); Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Författare :Erik Kimblad; [2024]
    Nyckelord :Critical infrastructure; Lifeline; Resilience; Interdependencies; Earthquake; Natural hazards; Turkey; Holistic; Disaster; Framework; Assessment; Empirical; Case study; Technology and Engineering;

    Sammanfattning : On February 6, 2023, two earthquakes (7.8MW and 7.7MW) struck Turkey within nine hours, resulting in over 50,000 fatalities and significant damage to critical infrastructures (CI) which provide services essential for the functioning of society. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Potential and Limitations of the Sketch Map Tool in the International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Författare :Kimon Letzner; [2024]
    Nyckelord :Disaster risk reduction; Participatory action research; Community risk mapping; International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement; Colombia; Technology and Engineering;

    Sammanfattning : In disaster risk management, participatory mapping (PM) closes spatial data gaps in communities by integrating local risk knowledge. The thesis examined the potential and limitations of the Sketch Map Tool (SMT) as a PM tool for community-based disaster risk reduction (DRR) through an International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement case study. LÄS MER

  4. 3. DRR in Colombia: The risk of reproducing rather than reducing disasters : A discourse analysis on the local sense-making of DRR in Huila, Colombia

    Master-uppsats, Försvarshögskolan

    Författare :Daniel Magnil; [2024]
    Nyckelord :Disaster Risk Reduction; Vulnerability; Knowledge; Discourse Analysis;

    Sammanfattning : The international community has been working on reducing disaster risks for decades, investing millions of dollars and implementing hundreds of projects in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). There is a broad consensus nowadays between academia and practitioners of how disasters result from exposure and vulnerabilities, where it’s essential to reduce these vulnerabilities. LÄS MER

  5. 4. NO ONE LEFT BEHIND? The ability of EU policies to support the capabilities of stateless people facing climate change-induced disasters

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Sophie Auckram; [2023-08-31]
    Nyckelord :statelessness; vulnerability; EU; capability approach; climate change-induced disasters;

    Sammanfattning : Statelessness is an issue that has affected Europe since the end of World War II, as nation-state boundaries have constrained which people have a nationality and which do not. In the instance of a climate change-induced disaster, stateless people are hyper-marginalised for two distinct reasons: they tend to live in high-risk locations, and they are in danger of being overlooked by state institutions. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Skogsbranden i Västmanland 2014 - en inkluderande katastrofhantering? : En kvalitativ innehållsanalys om gruppers prioritering, social ojämlikhet och resursfördelning

    Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för samhälls- och kulturvetenskap (from 2013)

    Författare :Emelie Bryntesson; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Social inequality; resource distribution; forest fire; disaster management; Social ojämlikhet; resursfördelning; skogsbrand; katastrofhantering;

    Sammanfattning : Ett förändrat klimat ökar risken för fler frekventa skogsbränder, skogsbränder som spås vara mer intensiva än tidigare sett. Det här ger ett behov av att ha en fungerande katastrofhantering när en skogsbrand sker. LÄS MER