Sentence examples for hazards research from inspiring English sources
Christian Klose, a geophysical hazards research scientist from Columbia University in New York, has also suggested the extra water could have triggered the earthquake.
With dry hot winds putting a large area of east Texas under a red flag fire warning even as the cleanup continues in dozens of communities already swept by flames, I thought it worth getting some insights from John McAneney, the director of Risk Frontiers, a natural hazards research center at Macquarie University in Australia.
Anthropogenic geomorphology is an emerging systematic field that overlaps with climate change and natural hazards research.
Sometimes it can have an immediate application, as Jutta Thielen, who works in natural hazards research at the EC's Joint Research Centre, found out last summer!
Emergency managers rely on strong partnerships with the research and engineering communities to understand and advise on natural and man-made hazards: research to operations, operations to research.
Although practitioners and scholars have emphasized the importance of household natural hazard preparedness in reducing the damage caused by natural hazards, research has suggested that households are usually ill-prepared to face such hazards.
In the hazard risk research literature, no consensus exists on what is the best way is to measure resilience (Bevington et al. 2011).
The concept of vulnerability emerged within different fields (in the context of natural hazards and risk research, for example, in research on famine, disaster mitigation, the insurance business, and development) to help in understanding the condition or the predisposition of a system to suffer harm due to a hazard (Adger 2006).
Bill McGuire is the Benfield Greig professor of geohazards and director of the Benfield Greig Hazard research centre at University College London.
Consequently, most hazard research has been focused on saving lives and reducing injuries.
"Sea level rise, especially in the south-east of England, will mean some of these sites will be under water within 100 years," said David Crichton, a flood specialist and honorary professor at the hazard research centre at University College London.
