Essays about: "land disasters"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 36 essays containing the words land disasters.

  1. 6. Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction - Assessing barriers and opportunities to integrate risk information into communal development planning in Burundi

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Katharina Oschmann; Marie Lachenmann; [2021]
    Keywords : Central East Africa; Build Back Better; Bujumbura; Burundi; CCA; Climate Change Adaptation; Integration; Development Gains; Development and Spatial Planning; Disaster Risk Reduction; DRR; Great Lakes Region; Institutional Barriers; Lake Tanganyika; Land-use planning; LDC; LUP; Mainstreaming; Mitigation; PPP; Preparedness; Prevention; Recovery; Resilience; Risk Governance; Risk Information; Risk-Based; Risk-Informed; Risk-Sensitive; Sendai Framework; Sustainable Development; Urban planning; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Natural hazards cannot be avoided, but their damage to what human beings value, such as life, health, and property, can be limited. Climate change will increase extreme weather events and overall disaster risk, which will particularly affect Least Developed Countries. READ MORE

  3. 7. A Home Among the Gumtrees - Reimagining suburban Sydney for a hotter future

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

    Author : Athena Newman-Andrews; [2021]
    Keywords : heat; Sydney; climate change; suburban; housing; Australia; urban sprawl; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : This thesis started with a desire to delve into the impact that natural disasters have on small communities in an Australian context, how climate change exacerbates their effect, and the role that design can play in mitigating the impact on people and the natural environment. Initial research into bushfires, drought, floods, and heat landed this project in Western Sydney, in an area not far from where I grew up. READ MORE

  4. 8. Lesson learned? : A study of Sweden’s post-crisis learning after the fire in Västmanland 2014

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Hanna Tućan Oldgren; [2021]
    Keywords : Crisis management; Post-crisis learning; Emergency preparedness; Organisational learning;

    Abstract : The world is facing an increase in natural disasters due to climate change, and Sweden is no exception. In the past 10 years Sweden has endured two large forest fires which devastated both land and property and which had huge financial impacts on society. READ MORE

  5. 9. The urban planning of Istanbul and the provision of green resilient zones in an earthquake-hit metropolitan area -A case study of Istanbul & Avcılar

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Melissa Högberg Yilmaz; [2020]
    Keywords : Earthquake; Turkey; Istanbul; Avcilar; disaster risk reduction; urban disaster resilience; green areas; green infrastructure; regional planning; governance; planning hierarchy;

    Abstract : This paper examines how green areas may be used as strategic recovery zones in the event of an earthquake and how these zones may strengthen the resilience for future quakes in Istanbul. The paper also refers to investigating why the planning system in Turkey can pose a threat for the provision of green areas. READ MORE

  6. 10. Threat or Possibility: Land Rights & Disaster-Vulnerability - A qualitative study on land rights, tenure security and disaster-vulnerability in light of the 2018 land law amendment in Myanmar

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Nina Fuchsová; [2020]
    Keywords : land rights; tenure; disaster-vulnerability; ethnic minorities; Myanmar; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Secured land tenure is considered to play a crucial role in decreasing disaster-vulnerability. By signing the Sendai Framework, Myanmar Government agreed to focus its policies on reducing risks of natural disasters. READ MORE