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What can we learn from the spatial patterns of disasters? What human and structural factors need to be addressed to explain hazard vulnerability? As populations grow and the climate warms, how can natural hazards be mitigated? Thoroughly revised and
The 21st century presents many challenges to the hazard manager; dynamic climatic conditions combined with population growth, rapid urbanization, and changing socio-economic relationships are reshaping disaster impacts, community responses, and socia
Publikováno v:
Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning. 22:239-255
Protected areas are widely recognized as an important strategy for biodiversity conservation. Most of the sites are, however, poorly managed as resource exploitation by fringe communities and low g...
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Weather, Climate, and Society. 10:361-372
Particular social factors can limit or promote adaptive capacity and resilience in hazardous environments. Understanding these factors is essential for developing planning tools for risk reduction and response. In this qualitative study, focus groups
Autor:
Graham A. Tobin, Shakhawat H. Tanim
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Papers in Applied Geography. 4:123-136
Evacuation decisions by people at risk are dependent on a variety of social factors that can define the success and failure of such practices. Many previous studies have identified the role...
Autor:
Rebecca Brady David, Graham A. Tobin
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Environmental Science & Policy. 78:167-172
This research works to create a clearer understanding of sustainability in water policy through an examination of current water policies in San Francisco and San Jose, California. San Francisco was selected because it appears on various lists of as o
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The Professional Geographer. 68:603-612
Following the 2010–2011 earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, many nonprofit organizations changed or expanded services to address emergent or compounded risks. This research is based on interviews with thirty local community nonprofit managers
Autor:
Rebecca Brady David, Graham A. Tobin
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Papers in Applied Geography. 2:96-104
This research looks at sustainability of water policies using Austin, Texas, as a case study. Austin has been classified by Sustainability Tools for Assessing & Rating Communities, the League of Cities—Sustainable Cities Institute, and Popular Scie
Autor:
A. J. Faas, Arthur D. Murphy, Graham A. Tobin, Eric C. Jones, Linda M. Whiteford, Christopher McCarty
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Preventing Health and Environmental Risks in Latin America ISBN: 9783319737980
We examine social aspects of risk perception in seven sites among communities affected by a flood in Mexico (one site), as well by volcanic eruptions in Mexico (one site) and Ecuador (five sites). We conducted over 450 interviews with questions about
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73799-7_11
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73799-7_11
Autor:
Christopher McCarty, Eric C. Jones, Linda M. Whiteford, A. J. Faas, Arthur D. Murphy, Graham A. Tobin
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Economic Anthropology. 2:385-404
Within the context of major changes in economics, population distribution, and lifestyles around the world, people continue to rely on personal relationships for support. People also often create or find themselves in relationships that are alternati