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Robert B. Sowby and Braxton W. Porter
Even though drinking water utilities are not meant to fight wildfires, they quickly become stakeholders, if not first responders, when their resources are needed for firefighting. The August 2023 wildfires on the island of Maui, Hawaii, USA, have highlig...
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Ujwal Sharma, Uma Shankar Medasetti, Taher Deemyad, Mustafa Mashal and Vaibhav Yadav
This review paper addresses the escalating operation and maintenance costs of nuclear power plants, primarily attributed to rising labor costs and intensified competition from renewable energy sources. The paper proposes a paradigm shift towards a techno...
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Jaehyun Shin and Dong Sop Rhee
As the frequency and intensity of natural and social disasters increase due to climate change, damage caused by disasters affects urban areas and facilities. Of those disasters, inundation occurs in urban areas due to rising water surface elevation becau...
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Peng Zhang, Qin Qin, Shijie Zhang, Xiangtian Zhao, Xiaoliang Yan, Wei Wang and Hongbin Zhang
Remote sensing has become an essential tool for geological exploration, disaster monitoring, emergency rescue, and environmental supervision, while the limited number of remote sensing satellites and ground stations restricts the timeliness of remote sen...
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Yunzhou Chen, Shumin Wang, Ziying Gu and Fan Yang
Spatial population distribution data is the discretization of demographic data into spatial grids, which has vital reference significance for disaster emergency response, disaster assessment, emergency rescue resource allocation, and post-disaster recons...
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Israel Edem Agbehadji, Stefanie Schütte, Muthoni Masinde, Joel Botai and Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi
Early warning systems (EWS) facilitate societies? preparedness and effective response capabilities to climate risks. Climate risks embody hazards, exposure, and vulnerability associated with a particular geographical area. Building an effective EWS requi...
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Jiansong Tang, Ruijia Yang, Qiangsheng Dai, Gaoteng Yuan and Yingchi Mao
Climate change has increased the frequency of various types of meteorological disasters in recent years. Finding the primary factors that limit the emergency response capability of meteorological disasters through the evaluation of that capability and pr...
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Wenwen Li, Sizhe Wang, Xiao Chen, Yuanyuan Tian, Zhining Gu, Anna Lopez-Carr, Andrew Schroeder, Kitty Currier, Mark Schildhauer and Rui Zhu
The past decade has witnessed an increasing frequency and intensity of disasters, from extreme weather, drought, and wildfires to hurricanes, floods, and wars. Providing timely disaster response and humanitarian aid to these events is a critical topic fo...
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Jung-Hong Hong and Yi-Tin Shi
Smart cities represent a new perspective on modern urban development. They involve an information infrastructure environment with application intelligence to improve operational efficiency and welfare effectively. However, understanding how to overcome t...
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James Durham, Sudipta Chowdhury and Ammar Alzarrad
Effectively harnessing the power of social media data for disaster management requires sophisticated analysis methods and frameworks. This research focuses on understanding the contextual information present in social media posts during disasters and dev...
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