Essays about: "Disaster resilience"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 90 essays containing the words Disaster resilience.

1. 1. Holistic Assessment of Critical Infrastructure Resilience during Disasters (HACIRD) - A case study of the 2023 Kahramanmaras earthquakes

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Riskhantering (CI); Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

   Author : Erik Kimblad; [2024]
   Keywords : Critical infrastructure; Lifeline; Resilience; Interdependencies; Earthquake; Natural hazards; Turkey; Holistic; Disaster; Framework; Assessment; Empirical; Case study; Technology and Engineering;

   Abstract : On February 6, 2023, two earthquakes (7.8MW and 7.7MW) struck Turkey within nine hours, resulting in over 50,000 fatalities and significant damage to critical infrastructures (CI) which provide services essential for the functioning of society. READ MORE

3. 2. Potential and Limitations of the Sketch Map Tool in the International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

   Author : Kimon Letzner; [2024]
   Keywords : Disaster risk reduction; Participatory action research; Community risk mapping; International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement; Colombia; Technology and Engineering;

   Abstract : In disaster risk management, participatory mapping (PM) closes spatial data gaps in communities by integrating local risk knowledge. The thesis examined the potential and limitations of the Sketch Map Tool (SMT) as a PM tool for community-based disaster risk reduction (DRR) through an International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement case study. READ MORE

4. 3. Community Continuity Management : An Exploration of the Energy Production and Use of a Fictional Stockholm Neighbourhood in a Crisis

   University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

   Author : Nils Brattgård; [2023]
   Keywords : Business Continuity Management; Community Continuity Management; Energy Community; Energy Resilience; Energy; Resilience; Preparedness; Adaptation; Wellness; Wellbeing; Blackout; Power Failure; High Impact Low Probability; Crisis; Disaster; Kontinuitetshantering; Community Continuity Management; Energigemenskap; Energiresiliens; Energi; Resiliens; Beredskap; Anpassning; Välmående; Välbefinnande; Strömavbrott; Elkris; High Impact Low Probability; Kris; Katastrof;

   Abstract : In an increasingly interconnected, and electricity-reliant world, households are asked to build up their resilience to crises. Local, distributed electricity production within a microgrid with capability to operate disconnected from the larger grid has been shown to be an effective tool for increasing power system resilience in the past. READ MORE

5. 4. Vulnerability & Resilience in an Ageing Population : A Case Study on Individual Self-Reliance & Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Policies in Japan

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Victor Bergenek; [2023]
   Keywords : Disaster Risk Reduction; DRR; Ageing Population; Vulnerability; Resilience; DRM; Disaster Risk Management; Individual Self Reliance; Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction; Japan; Case Study; Elderly; Vulnerable Groups.;

   Abstract : Natural disasters and hazards pose significant risks and challenges for people and communities all around the world, among the groups most vulnerable to these events are elderly populations who face physical, social, and psychological hardships in the face of disasters. The vulnerability and lacking resilience of elderly are a growing global concern as their proportion of the world's population is steadily increasing with an estimated 1 in 6 people being aged 65 and over by 2050, doubling the current number. READ MORE

6. 5. Changing Tides and Navigating Uncertainty : An ethnographic study of NGO resilience in coastal South India

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Emma Berglund; [2023]
   Keywords : NGO; India; Localisation; Resilience; India; Blue Economy; Community centered practice;

   Abstract : What makes an non-governmental organisation (NGO) agile and resilient towards changes, pressures or uncertainties at community, state or macro-political level? By adopting a single case study based on semi-structured interviews and fieldwork, this thesis will dive into the life-world of a community-based NGO based in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu. Social Needs Education and Human Awareness (SNEHA) has since founding in the 1980s had a strong rights-based identity and evolved through various phases of community organising, disaster relief work, evidence-based advocacy and upholding of fisher communities traditional and customary rights. READ MORE