Essays about: "typhoon"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the word typhoon.

1. 1. Typhoon Disaster Response amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Successive Typhoons in The Philippines in 2020

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

   Author : Lia Anne Gonzalo Ladera; Auria Tiemroth; [2021]
   Keywords : Disaster response; Typhoons; Compound risks; COVID-19; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The objective of this thesis is to analyze how typhoon response operations in the Philippines were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This multi-hazard scenario is not a singular case, many places around the world have been exposed to similar dilemmas of natural hazards occurring simultaneously as the pandemic. READ MORE

3. 2. Study on future storm surge around Suo-nada Sea

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Teknisk vattenresurslära

   Author : Ayano Sonoda; [2019]
   Keywords : storm surge; Suo-nada Sea; numerical simulation; FVCOM; Technology and Engineering;

   Abstract : Japan lies on an area frequently hit by typhoons while city functions are clustered along the flat coastal areas, hence Japan has experienced lots of storm surge disasters up to the present. Coastal areas along the Suo-nada Sea also have the vulnerability against storm surge and in the past Typhoon 18 in 1999, Typhoon 16 and 18 in 2004 made remarkable damages in the areas. READ MORE

4. 3. Participation and its Implication for a Resilient Generation : A qualitative analysis of Filipino children’s inclusion in the disaster management efforts of humanitarian organizations following typhoon Haiyan

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Stina Fagerlund; [2018]
   Keywords : Children; resilience; vulnerability; active participation; the Philippines; typhoon Haiyan; humanitarian aid organizations;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the ways in which children were included in the disaster management efforts of four major humanitarian aid organizations following the 2013 typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. Central concepts are resilience, vulnerability and participation, and the study builds on how these concepts relates to one another. READ MORE

5. 4. Frequency analysis of heavy rainfall related to synoptic weather patterns in Kyushu Island, Japan by using the Self-Organizing Map (SOM)

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Teknisk vattenresurslära

   Author : Norihiro Ohashi; [2018]
   Keywords : Heavy rainfall frequency; Self-Organizing Map; Pattern recognition; Meteorological fields; Technology and Engineering;

   Abstract : Recently heavy rainfall frequency in Kyushu Island, the southwestern part of Japan, during the rainy season, has been increasing due to possibly climate change, global warming. Owing to the recent increase of heavy rainfall frequency, natural disasters related to heavy rainfall including flooding and landslides have occurred and caused serious damages to infrastructures and human lives. READ MORE

6. 5. Critical success factors' impact on agility of humanitarian supply chains : A case study of the typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines 2013

   University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/IHH, Centre of Logistics and Supply Chain Management (CeLS)

   Author : Ellen Karlsson; Maria Eriksson; [2017]
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