This article reviews current drought effects on environmental systems. It stresses the need
for considering environmental drought as a relevant type to be included in drought …

The exposure of built environment systems to climate-related disturbances increases over
time. As such, the resilience of the built environment against climate change shocks and …

摘要本文在作者1991 年发表的“灾害研究的理论与实践” 一文基础上, 全面分析了当前国外灾害
理论研究的进展, 对灾害理论研究中的致灾因子论, 孕灾环境论, 承灾体(人类活动) 论进行了评述 …

The COVID-19 outbreak is a global crisis that has placed small and medium enterprises
(SMEs) under huge pressure to survive, requiring them to respond effectively to the crisis …

作者曾分别于1991, 1995 和2001 年发表了关于灾害研究理论与实践的3 篇文章,
对灾害系统的性质, 动力学机制等进行了探讨. 本文在前3 篇文章的基础上 …

Involvement in disaster by international, national and academic institutions has led to a
number of implicit and explicit definitions of disaster. Several major sources of data provide …

The superficial features of the dominant view are not hard to discern, though it requires
specialised, lengthy training to contribute to them. There is generally a straightforward …

Definition Natural hazards are processes that serve as triggers for natural disasters. Natural
hazards can be classified into six categories. Geophysical or geological hazards relate to …

Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not
wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at …

Problem, research strategy, and findings: Historical patterns of discrimination and
disinvestment have shaped the current landscape of vulnerability to heat in US cities but are …