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Disaster Mitigation

Disaster Mitigation is a preventive conservation strategy that belongs to the broader class of risk management measures, specifically distinguished by its focus on reducing or eliminating the long-term risks and impacts of disasters on cultural heritage through proactive planning, structural improvements, and policy implementation.

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217.8K

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8.9K

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2.7K

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2017–2026

1.6K

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Social-Ecological Resilience to Coastal Disasters

W. Neil Adger, Terry P. Hughes, Carl Folke et al. · Science · 2005 · 2.6K citations

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Urban Hazard Mitigation: Creating Resilient Cities

David R. Godschalk · Natural Hazards Review · 2003 · 1.6K citations

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The Death Toll from Natural Disasters: The Role of Income, Geography, and Institutions

Matthew E. Kahn · The Review of Economics and Statistics · 2005 · 1.4K citations

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Resilience to natural hazards: How useful is this concept?

Richard J. T. Klein, Robert J. Nicholls, Frank Thomalla · Environmental Hazards · 2003 · 1.4K citations

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The macroeconomic consequences of disasters

Ilan Noy · Journal of Development Economics · 2008 · 1.3K citations

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Authors

8.9K

  1. RS
    Rajib Shaw

    Kyoto University, Japan

    37 publications · 1.8K citations

    25

    h-index

  2. IK
    Ilan Kelman

    University College London, United Kingdom

    32 publications · 2.9K citations

    24

    h-index

  3. HK
    Howard Kunreuther

    University of Pennsylvania, United States

    25 publications · 3.2K citations

    22

    h-index

  4. RM
    Reinhard Mechler

    International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria

    26 publications · 2.6K citations

    22

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  5. DA
    Dilanthi Amaratunga

    University of Salford, United Kingdom

    28 publications · 1K citations

    21

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Institutions

2.7K

  1. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    36 h-index

    97 publications

    7.7K citations

  2. Tohoku University

    Sendai, Japan

    31 h-index

    123 publications

    8.7K citations

  3. Kyoto University

    Kyoto, Japan

    30 h-index

    109 publications

    5K citations

  4. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

    Laxenburg, Austria

    28 h-index

    92 publications

    7.5K citations

  5. University of Auckland

    Auckland, New Zealand

    26 h-index

    70 publications

    4.2K citations

  6. University of Colorado Boulder

    Boulder, United States

    25 h-index

    65 publications

    7.6K citations

  7. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    24 h-index

    66 publications

    14.3K citations

  8. Northumbria University

    Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

    23 h-index

    59 publications

    5.1K citations

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Venues

  1. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

    310 publications · 16.4K citations

    70

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  2. Natural Hazards

    124 publications · 5.8K citations

    45

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  3. Disasters

    79 publications · 8.3K citations

    45

    h-index

  4. 44

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  5. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science

    IJDRS · 90 publications · 5.4K citations

    44

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