Background Compassion fatigue is a consequence of chronic work-related stress exposure
among healthcare providers. Nursing is a high-risk, stressful profession which increases …

Importance Health is inextricably linked to climate change. It is important for clinicians to
understand this relationship in order to discuss associated health risks with their patients …

Flood is one of the most destructive natural disasters which cause great financial and life
losses per year. Therefore, producing susceptibility maps for flood management are …

Earthquakes are natural phenomena, which induce natural hazard that seriously threatens
urban areas, despite significant advances in retrofitting urban buildings and enhancing the …

Flood is a common natural disaster that causes immense damage to the natural
environment, construction and casualties every year around the world. The effectiveness of …

This paper presents a robust network design model for the supply of blood during and after
disasters. A practical optimization model is developed that can assist in blood facility …

The collection of articles in this Special Feature is part of a larger project on “Forecasting
Societies' Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change”(an Advanced Grant of the European …

Pakistan is alarmingly exposed and vulnerable to flood disasters as a result of rapid
urbanization that has not taken into account the threats posed by climate change. The …

Survivors of disasters commonly provide each other with social support, but the social‐
psychological processes behind such solidarity behaviours have not been fully explicated …

Pakistan is ranked among the most climate change adversely affected countries of the world
due to facing higher frequency of extreme natural hazards events as floods, drought, and …