Essays about: "Geological disaster"

Found 5 essays containing the words Geological disaster.

  1. 1. Property Prices and Disaster (In)Justice: Fifty Years of Demographic Change in Hawai’i County’s Lava Hazard Zones

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : AnaCapri Mauro; [2022]
    Keywords : Social Vulnerability; Volcanic Hazards; Disaster Justice; Risk Governance; Temporal Analysis; Mauna Loa; Kīlauea; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : While there is a degree of homogeneity in the physical impact that volcanic hazards can cause, the experience of volcanic risk and the politics of exposure are far from equal. The purpose of this thesis is to expand on research citing population growth and property price dynamics as factors encouraging settlement in the Mauna Loa and Kīlauea lava hazard zones. READ MORE

  3. 2. Human Factors in Deepwater Drilling - A New Approach to Safety and Operational Excellence

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : José Carlos Silveira Bruno; [2020]
    Keywords : Deepwater; Drilling; Human Factors; Oil Gas; Performance; Safety; FLMU06; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : Deepwater drilling operates high hazardous and complex systems. Technological and operational complexities, harsh environmental conditions, geological uncertainties, and high-pressure flammable fluids are some of the critical factors that pose clear threats towards safe operations and may result in high consequence events, as the Macondo blowout in 2010. READ MORE

  4. 3. Using multi-criteria evaluation and GIS for chronic food and nutrition insecurity indicators analysis in Ethiopia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Mathewos Tamiru Amato; [2016]
    Keywords : multi-criteria evaluation; food and nutrition insecurity indicators; food security dimensions; Physical Geography and Ecosystem Analysis; GIS; districts; Ethiopia; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : The actual concept of food security focuses on four food security dimensions: food availability, food access, food utilization and food stability of which eight indicators were identified for this study. The study aims to evaluate vulnerability to chronic food and nutrition insecurity, one of the food stability types, in Ethiopia; and examines the relationship between four food security dimensions and stunting of children under age five. READ MORE

  5. 4. An interpretation of oncoid mass-occurrence during the Late Silurian Lau Event, Gotland, Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

    Author : Martin Qvarnström; [2012]
    Keywords : Bjärsjölagård; Gotland; microbialites; Silurian; Oncoids; Lau Event; ecological crisis; Onkoider; Silur; microbialiter; ekologisk kris; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : The geological significance of the microbial-formed oncoid is not as well understood as the recognized, analogous stromatolite but can, as well be used as an environmental indicator. In association with the larger Phanerozoic mass extinctions, a resurgence of microbialites as a disaster fauna is at present an accepted view. READ MORE

  6. 5. Land Sliding Analysis on Red Clay soil using Fracture Criteria

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för ingenjörsvetenskap

    Author : Mohamed Riyazdeen Mavaday Guthbutheen; Yisho ji; Jin ji; [2012]
    Keywords : Slope stability; Geological disaster; Stress intensity factor; Land slide; Crack initiation; structural damages.;

    Abstract : In order to assess the safe and functional design of road ways, buildings, bridges, dams, etc. Also to protect from structural damages and geological disasters. READ MORE