Seismic hazard zoning in Urmia urban area. by Ali nasiri

“…Today, the resiliency of the human centers, especially urban centers against the natural hazards such as earthquakes, is one of the main challenges in the targeted management of urban. …”
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The Foundations of Probability with Black Swans by Graciela Chichilnisky

“…We extend the foundation of probability in samples with rare events that are potentially catastrophic, called black swans, such as natural hazards, market crashes, catastrophic climate change, and species extinction. …”
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Rapid Mapping and Deformation Analysis over Cultural Heritage and Rural Sites Based on Persistent Scatterer Interferometry by D. Tapete, F. Cigna

“…Advantages and drawbacks of the methodology are critically discussed based on feasibility tests performed over Pitigliano and Bivigliano, respectively, located in Southern and Northern Tuscany, Italy, and representative of hilltop historic towns and countryside settlements chronically affected by natural hazards. We radar-interpreted ERS-1/2 (1992–2000) and ENVISAT (2003–2010) datasets, already processed, respectively with the Permanent Scatterers (PSs) and Persistent Scatterers Pairs (PSPs) techniques, and assigned the levels of conservation criticality for both the sites. …”
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Flood Evacuation in Informal Settlements: Application of an Agent-Based Model to Kibera Using Open Data by Olivia Butters, Richard J. Dawson

“…Although informal settlements have a concentration of vulnerable people and are often more exposed to natural hazards, data availability is often limited, posing challenges for planning and implementing flood incident management actions. …”
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Projected changes to drought characteristics in Tehran under CMIP6 SSP-RCP climate change scenarios by Mohammad Reza Khazaei

“…Drought represents one of the most devastating natural hazards, significantly impacting economies, societies, and the environment. …”
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Evaluation of land use change, modeling and prediction of areas susceptible to physical development of the city (Case Study: Nurabad Mamasani Town) by rahman zandi, najmeh shafiei, ebrahim akbari, ali hajizadeh shikhanlo

“…In a mountainous area, the effects of these factors have become a barrier to development and can have natural hazards. In this research, it is tried to identify the optimal directions of physical development of the city of Nurabad as a relatively high region by identifying its effective factors and evaluating it. …”
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Identification of Landslide Precipitation Areas in Lagos Valley Using Analytical Hierarchy Model and Fuzzy Logic by Atrin Ebrahimi, Amir Ali Abbaszadeh, Fatemeh Noredin Mosa, Hamid Ganjaeian, Zahra Zangane Tabar

“…These processes are among the most damaging natural hazards that have been accelerating as human manipulation of natural systems in recent decades. …”
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Experimental Study on Wind Erosion Resistance and Strength of Sands Treated with Microbial-Induced Calcium Carbonate Precipitation by Zhaoyu Wang, Nan Zhang, Jinhua Ding, Chen Lu, Yong Jin

“…This study proposed an innovative microbial-induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP) technique to reinforce sands for mitigating natural hazards caused by the wind erosion. A series of small-scale laboratory experiments were performed to evaluate wind erosion resistance of MICP-treated sands with different treatment cycles. …”
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Coastal environmental changes in Ninh Thuan Province, South-Central Vietnam. by Bijeesh Kozhikkodan Veettil, Siham Acharki, Vikram Puri, Vanna Teck

“…Vietnam's coastal regions are highly vulnerable to natural hazards and human-induced changes, posing significant challenges to their ecological and socio-economic systems. …”
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Analysing the Physical Quality of Reconstructed Residential Environment of Bam City by mahmod Ghadir, Soghra Shahrbabaki

“…In developing countries, every year natural hazards causes major losses in urban and rural settlements. …”
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FathomDEM: an improved global terrain map using a hybrid vision transformer model by Peter Uhe, Chris Lucas, Laurence Hawker, Malcolm Brine, Hamish Wilkinson, Anthony Cooper, Alex A Saoulis, James Savage, Christopher Sampson

“…The Earth’s terrain is linked to many physical processes, and gaining the most accurate representation is key to work in many sectors from engineering to natural hazards modeling and ecology. Existing global digital elevation models (DEMs) are widely used, however often suffer from systematic biases caused by trees, buildings and instrumentation error, ultimately limiting their effectiveness. …”
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Preparation of flood susceptibility map and its occurrence probability using Shannon entropy model (case study of Firoozabad river basin) by mohammad ebrahim afifi

“…Among the natural hazards, without a doubt, the flood is known as a natural disaster. …”
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The Study of Environmental Risk Role (Factors) on the Economy of Urban Communities, Case Study: Ahwaz City by sara behvandi, mohammad reza zandmoghadam, abbas arghan, zeinab kekehabadi

“…Today, the huge economic damage of natural hazards, especially of the micro-organisms, to human societies has led the concept of economic sustainability to mitigate the effects of crises to become an important area in crisis management. …”
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Assessment of the Ground Vulnerability in the Preveza Region (Greece) Using the European Ground Motion Service and Geospatial Data Concerning Critical Infrastructures by Eleftheria Basiou, Ignacio Castro-Melgar, Haralambos Kranis, Andreas Karavias, Efthymios Lekkas, Issaak Parcharidis

“…This allows for the millimeter-scale measurement of ground motion, which is essential for assessing anthropogenic and natural hazards. The study examines ground displacement from 2018 to 2022 using multi-temporal Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (MTInSAR). …”
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Identifying and Prioritizing Tourism Attractions in Ravansar Based on Tourist Attracting Potentials by Yousef Ghanbari, Hossein Komasi, Dawood Jamini, Azadََ Arianpour

“…This article from the viewpoint of its purpose is an applied one and according to its method is a descriptive - analytical study and survey. to achieve the goal of the article, 9 parameters including altitude , situation of infrastructure, number of tourists, facilities and services, accessibility, potentials of attraction surroundings, the ability to attract tourists in different seasons, economic impacts and the absence of natural hazards in seven most important tourist sites were selected and prioritized using TOPSIS techniques. …”
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VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION AS A SCHOOL OF STUDENTS’ VOCATIONAL TRIALS by V. A. Starodubtsev, Р. V. Rodionov

“…The paper presents an example of establishing and operating a volunteer organization for students with the aim of widening the curriculum and providing students with an opportunity for getting vocational experience in the field of preventing and controlling man-made, social and natural hazards. The vocational training was conducted in university laboratories, during real local emergencies and regional volunteer contests. …”
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Statistical Analysis of the Possibility of Hail in Northern Zagros by Mohammad Reza Salimi Sobhan, zahra beygom Hejazizadeh, fariba sayadi, fatemeh qaderi

“…In examining natural hazards, such as hail, statistical analyzes can play a significant role. …”
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Numerical Study on Seismic Behavior of Underwater Bridge Columns Strengthened with Prestressed Precast Concrete Panels and Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Reinforcements by Yu Tang, Gang Wu, Zeyang Sun

“…The seismic performance of the bridge column, such as pier or pile, is a time-dependent property which may decrease in resistance to the deterioration or natural hazards along the structure’s service life. The most effective strengthened method for degraded bridge columns is the jacketing method, which has been widely developed and investigated through numerous studies since the 1980s. …”
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HEALTH MONITORING OF STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS USING CT-XRAY by F. Nateghi Alahi, S.S. Kamali

“…For example, urban structures such as electric poles and traffic signs cause financial losses or even deaths due to natural hazards or wear and tear every year. One of the features of this method is its high accuracy and speed in checking the member. …”
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Resilience analysis of urban settlements against the flood with emphasis on Social and economic indicators Case study : ( Gorgan city) by shamsi sadat mir asadollahi, sadraldin motavali, gholam reza janbaz ghobadi

“…Strengthen local organs and organizations in a decentralized state  , one of the important ways to increase the social participation of citizens of Gorgan during the crisis.by providing people's participation and strengthening the people's economic ability when natural hazards occur including flood, the initiative of the people is strengthened and the scope for reducing the damage caused by the flood is reduced . people are faced with real and tangible issues with the executive and so on their gap crisis management and conflicts of interest will diminish.…”
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