Abstract The Department of Civil Protection (DPC), in compliance with the EU decision 1313/2013 and at request Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 to update disaster risk assessments by various countries, released latest National Assessment Italy end 2018. Specifically, as regards seismic assessment, six research units belonging two centres competence DPC collaborated under i...

For assessing vulnerability and risk of water resources system and defining climate change adaptation policies and measures, the integrated contribution of several disciplines is required, enabling a comprehensive, but also complex, dynamic description of present state and future trends. But, the notions of vulnerability and risk and the approaches for their assessment, have found different and...

Presents an overview of migration as a digital preservation strategy and introduces five reasons to migrate digital information. Presents risk measurement and impact scales used in this workbook. Explores file format issues associated with changes from one format to another. Discusses computer hardware and software features that influence methods of protecting digital information. Describes eme...

The impact of global climate change is gradually intensifying, and the frequent occurrence meteorological disasters poses a serious challenge to crop production. Analyzing evaluating agricultural multi-hazard disaster risks based on historical data summary occurrences development patterns are important bases for effective reduction natural regulation This paper explores technical system risk as...

Supported by the World Bank, the Integrated Information System for Natural Disaster Mitigation (ISNDM), including the operational service system and network telecommunication system, has been in development for three years in the Center of Disaster Reduction, Chinese Academy of Sciences, based on the platform of the GIS software Arcview. It has five main modules: disaster background information...

Background and Objective: Hospitals play an important role in protecting the health and survival of people during disasters. Despite the development of risk management programs worldwide in recent years, hospital preparedness in disasters is low and one reason for that is the lack of hospital standards for disaster preparedness. This study aims to develop hospital accreditation standards for ho...

Adverse selection and moral hazard are commonly expected to cause market failures in natural disaster insurance markets. However, such problems may not arise if individuals mainly buy insurance based on risk preferences. Advantageous selection can occur if individuals with insurance are highly risk averse and seek to reduce risk. We offer a comprehensive empirical study of risk selection in nat...

abstract   background: due to the high incidence of breast cancer and the effect of its early diagnosis on decreasing morbidity and mortality, we used the gail model to study breast cancer risk in iranian women.   methods: this study was done in a simple randomized way. participants were 2000 iranian women older than 35 years old. the questionnaire consisted of demographic data such as age, rac...

To the Editor: On March 11, 2011, Japan was struck by a magnitude 9.0 Mw earthquake. The results were severe, as more than 15,000 people were killed by the earthquake and the following tsunami.1 The aftermath of the disaster was a level 7 nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, matching only the Chernobyl disaster.1,2 However, a recent report of the World Health Organization showed that, to date, no dea...

background: the aim of this study was to determine bioavailability heavy metal concentrations of cu, cd, cr, co and zn and health risk assessment in different types of klang district, selangor (malaysia) urban surface soil using in physiologically based extraction test in vitro human digestion model. methods: a total of 76 urban surface soil was sampled based on seven different types of land us...