Sökning: "Disaster Preparedness"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 81 uppsatser innehållade orden Disaster Preparedness.

  1. 1. Community Continuity Management : An Exploration of the Energy Production and Use of a Fictional Stockholm Neighbourhood in a Crisis

    Master-uppsats, KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Författare :Nils Brattgård; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Business Continuity Management; Community Continuity Management; Energy Community; Energy Resilience; Energy; Resilience; Preparedness; Adaptation; Wellness; Wellbeing; Blackout; Power Failure; High Impact Low Probability; Crisis; Disaster; Kontinuitetshantering; Community Continuity Management; Energigemenskap; Energiresiliens; Energi; Resiliens; Beredskap; Anpassning; Välmående; Välbefinnande; Strömavbrott; Elkris; High Impact Low Probability; Kris; Katastrof;

    Sammanfattning : In an increasingly interconnected, and electricity-reliant world, households are asked to build up their resilience to crises. Local, distributed electricity production within a microgrid with capability to operate disconnected from the larger grid has been shown to be an effective tool for increasing power system resilience in the past. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Anticipating Glacier Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs): an impact-based forecasting framework for managing GLOF risks in Nepal.

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

    Författare :Grace Muir; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Anticipatory Action; Impact-based Forecasting; Glacier Lake Outburst Flood; Nepal; Risk-informed Early Action; Prediction; Disaster Risk Management; Science General;

    Sammanfattning : Glacier lake outburst floods (GLOFs) are an increasingly documented threat across the Himalayan region, wherein Nepal is situated. GLOFs involve a rapid discharge of water from a lake situated at the side, front, within, beneath, or on the surface of a glacier. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Ett skyddsrum för kulturarvet? : En komparativ undersökning av Riksarkivets och Rigsarkivets krisberedskap

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för ABM, digitala kulturer samt förlags- och bokmarknadskunskap

    Författare :Annika Haugsöen; [2023]
    Nyckelord :ABM; Arkivvetenskap; krisberedskap; krismedvetande; kulturarv; samhällskris; naturkatastrof; väpnad konflikt; bevarande; lagrum; riksarkiv; Sverige; Danmark; – ALM; Archival science; crisis preparedness; crisis consciousness; cultural heritage; social crisis; natural disaster; armed conflict; appraisal; formal frameworks; national archives; Sweden; Denmark; Cultural Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : This master’s thesis aims to investigate how crisis preparedness is conducted in the Swedish and Danish archive sector and specifically the national archives in Sweden and Denmark. The research questions asked are: 1. Which crisis consciousness do the Swedish and Danish national archives have? 2. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Vulnerability & Resilience in an Ageing Population : A Case Study on Individual Self-Reliance & Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Policies in Japan

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Författare :Victor Bergenek; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Disaster Risk Reduction; DRR; Ageing Population; Vulnerability; Resilience; DRM; Disaster Risk Management; Individual Self Reliance; Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction; Japan; Case Study; Elderly; Vulnerable Groups.;

    Sammanfattning : Natural disasters and hazards pose significant risks and challenges for people and communities all around the world, among the groups most vulnerable to these events are elderly populations who face physical, social, and psychological hardships in the face of disasters. The vulnerability and lacking resilience of elderly are a growing global concern as their proportion of the world's population is steadily increasing with an estimated 1 in 6 people being aged 65 and over by 2050, doubling the current number. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Redo att fortsätta leverera? En kvantitativ undersökning om förekomst och betydelse av krisberedskapsplanering i svensk socialtjänst under coronapandemins inledning

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Socialhögskolan

    Författare :Ann Edlund; [2023]
    Nyckelord :disaster preparedness; disaster preparedness plan; disaster response; social services; covid-19 pandemic; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study was to investigate the occurrence and variation in disaster preparedness planning, for particularly vulnerable groups, in Swedish social services at the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic. The aim was also to investigate whether disaster preparedness planning, as measured in this study, had a bearing on the number of deaths from covid-19 in special accommodation and home care for the elderly and disabled during 2020 and 2021. LÄS MER