Sökning: "Disaster Risk Management"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 131 uppsatser innehållade orden Disaster Risk Management.

  1. 16. Local Public Actors’ Flood Risk Perceptions and the Connection to Flood Risk Management : A Comparative Case Study of the Municipalities of Karlstad and Kristinehamn

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Författare :Frida Jansson; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Sustainable Development; Risk Perception; Flooding; Disaster Risk Reduction; Risk Management; Cultural Theory of Risk;

    Sammanfattning : The frequency and severity of floods have increased due to climate change and achieving successful disaster risk reduction is deemed crucial to attain preparedness and sustainability. The responsibility for society’s preparedness mainly resides with local public actors. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Assessing the Practical Use of an Integrated Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation Approach: A Case Study on Bangladesh

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Pim Roupé; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Disaster Risk Reduction; Climate Change Adaptation; Disaster Management; Climate Change; Natural Hazards; Resilience;

    Sammanfattning : The ambition of this thesis is to fulfill two aims. The first aim is theory development, by presenting a theoretical framework where climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) are combined. The second aim is empirical, where the theoretical framework is used to analyze an example of DRR with an ambition to include CCA. LÄS MER

  4. 18. Controlling the Uncontrollable? : A qualitative content analysis of the United Nations Sendai Framework and its reflection of disaster risk reduction in a risk society.

    Magister-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Författare :Ida Lindberg; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Disaster risk reduction; the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030; natural hazards; the United Nations; climate change; control; resilience; uncertainty; humanitarian aid;

    Sammanfattning : Occurrences of extreme weather events are increasing due to the ongoing climate change driven by human actions. In parallel, this triggers a growing need for humanitarian action in the future to help those impacted by disasters. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Property Prices and Disaster (In)Justice: Fifty Years of Demographic Change in Hawai’i County’s Lava Hazard Zones

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

    Författare :AnaCapri Mauro; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Social Vulnerability; Volcanic Hazards; Disaster Justice; Risk Governance; Temporal Analysis; Mauna Loa; Kīlauea; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : While there is a degree of homogeneity in the physical impact that volcanic hazards can cause, the experience of volcanic risk and the politics of exposure are far from equal. The purpose of this thesis is to expand on research citing population growth and property price dynamics as factors encouraging settlement in the Mauna Loa and Kīlauea lava hazard zones. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Hur lär sig människor av extrema händelser? : en fallstudie om Haiti och katastrofhantering efter jordbävningen 2010

    Kandidat-uppsats, Försvarshögskolan

    Författare :Daniel Dixon; [2022]
    Nyckelord :learning; policy change; disaster risk management; disaster risk reduction; natural disasters; Haiti;

    Sammanfattning : This study aims to explore if learning through policy change is possible after natural disastersoccur. Previous studies are divided concerning if natural disasters in fact lead to learning or policy change taking place. LÄS MER