As a result of global climate change, the frequency and intensity heat waves have increased significantly. According to World Meteorological Organization (WMO), extreme temperatures in southwestern Pakistan exceeded 54 °C successive years. The identification assessment heat-health vulnerability (HHV) are important for controlling heat-related diseases mortality. At present, many definitions. To...

Enhancing sanitation services is a major challenge for sustainable development and plans. This work aims at developing vulnerability hotspot mapping improving provision in Jordan based on multi-weighted criteria model. Multiple spatial, physical, demographic, social, economic, data were collected compiled using GIS. We also considered experts’ stakeholders’ opinions to determine the necessary i...

A primary goal of the US Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 is to slow the increase in disaster losses by emphasizing a proactive approach focusing on predisaster hazard mitigation, rather than postdisaster relief. The legislation requires local communities to produce hazard-mitigation plans that include multihazard maps, signifying a de facto prioritization of mitigation dollars on the basis of a...

Phase one activities deal with creation of an enabling environment for the intervention and flows into phases two and three. It mobilises the local community to own the problem of drug abuse and related risks, sets up committees of concern consisting of key influencers and the lays the ground for sustaining the intervention after project life. Key informant interviews and group discussions are ...

Active volcanoes give significant threats to the populations that live in their proximity. The Three Sisters Volcanic region is one of 9 threatening volcanoes within the Cascades volcanic arc. Eruptions are probable which makes it essential to complete hazard, vulnerability, and risk assessments so that proper planning, education and mitigation procedures can be implemented prior to the threat ...