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  1. 11. Agenda-Setting in the Arctic : Critical Discourse Studies in the Case of the Norilsk Oil Spill

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutet för Rysslands- och Eurasienstudier; Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Författare :Jacob Rice; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Russia; Environment; Critical Discourse Studies; Norilsk;

    Sammanfattning : This paper examines the existing discourses surrounding environmental issues in Russia using a large oil Spill in Norilsk as a case study. The spill, which occurred in the summer of 2020, is the largest man-made disaster to ever occur in the Arctic, resulting in around 21,000 tons of diesel fuel being spilled into the ground and surrounding waterways. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Beyond Western Knowledge: Indigenous and Local Knowledges on Disaster Risk Reduction -A field study in rural Thailand

    Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Linnea Johansson; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Disaster risk reduction; Indigenous and local knowledge systems; Thailand; Indigenous and local communities; Natural hazards; Non-western knowledge; Pressures to Indigenous and local knowledge systems;

    Sammanfattning : Natural hazards are predicted to only increase in frequency and severity over the next decade, making it crucial to avoid their negative consequences by disaster risk reduction. Reducing risks of natural hazards is not a recent invention as it has been shown that indigenous and local communities possess indigenous and local knowledge systems related to reducing disaster risks. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Multikriterieanalys av kyrkbyggnader som trygghetspunkter : En undersökning utförd på Säffle, Åmåls och Melleruds pastorat

    Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för hälsa, natur- och teknikvetenskap (from 2013)

    Författare :Lina Karlström; [2023]
    Nyckelord :point of safety; natural disaster; multiple criteria evaluation; AHP; GIS; church buildings; trygghetspunkter; naturolyckor; multikriterieanalys; AHP; GIS; kyrkbyggnader;

    Sammanfattning : Förekomsten av extremväder på grund av klimatförändringar har med åren ökat vilket gjort att förekomsten av naturhändelser bedöms öka i framtiden. Vid krissituationer i samhället är det bra om det är planerat för trygghetspunkter som är platser dit människor kan ta sig vid kris. LÄS MER

  5. 14. The Effect of Natural Disasters on Economic Growth: Does Frequency of Disasters Matter?

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Författare :Elin Solfelt Frödén; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Economic growth; natural disasters; climate change; Business and Economics;

    Sammanfattning : This paper aims to investigate the effect of natural disasters, with regard to frequency of events, on GDP per capita growth. A panel data regression covering 121 countries between 1960 and 2015 in non-overlapping five-year periods is used. LÄS MER

  7. 15. An analysis of the economic costs of natural disasters in the Philippines - does the natural disaster type matter?

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Författare :Christopher Olsson; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Economic costs; Natural disasters; Philippines; International disaster database; World risk report; Business and Economics;

    Sammanfattning : Ranked as the most disaster prone country in the world by the World Risk Index, the people of the Philippines have had their fair share of natural disasters and will probably continue to be affected by them in the future. With the help of The International Disaster Database the purpose of this paper is to analyze if the actual type of natural disaster has an impacct on the total direct economic damages done. LÄS MER