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Reputation and right to information: the communication of Samarco mining company in the case of Mariana (Minas Gerais, Brazil) environmental disaster
(Univ Malaga, Inst Investigacion Relaciones Publicas, 2016-07-01)
The present article aims to analyze whether the intention of an organization, when informing their actions during a crisis, is merely work for its image and reputation or a manner of guaranteeing the right to information ...
Industrialization and environmental crisis: A representation of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl prayer by Svetlana AleksievéitchIndustrialização e crise ambiental: A representação do desastre nuclear em Vozes de Tchernóbil, de Svetlana Aleksiévitch
(2019-01-01)
The article uses Svetlana Aleksievich's Voices of Chernobyl as representative to analyze the way humans have beaconed their energy production processes. Thus, literature emerges as a historical source to assess the ...
(In)visibilities About the Vulnerabilities of People with Visual Impairments to Disasters and Climate Change: A Case Study in Cuiabá, Brazil
(2022-02-01)
People with visual impairments (PwVI) represent a heterogeneous social group who often experience significant disabling barriers in exercising their rights throughout their life course. Understanding dimensions of vulnerability ...
Mining activity in Brazil and negligence in action
(Elsevier B.V., 2020-04-01)
The number of disasters involving tailings storage facilities has increased in Brazil. Only in the last six years, there have been six disasters involving this type of structure. Despite the vast socio-environmental impacts, ...
An operational dynamical neuro-forecasting model for hydrological disasters
(Springer, 2016-06-01)
In the last decades, artificial neural network has been increasingly applied in hydrological modeling given its potential to process the complex nonlinear relationships of the associated physical-environmental variables ...
Disaster risk reduction education: tensions and connections with sustainable development goals
(MDPI, 2021)
In the last decades, environmental risks and threats have increased human exposure to
natural hazards, often affecting the quality of life, especially for vulnerable groups. This article
explores the tensions and connections ...
Using mental well-being impact assessment to understand factors influencing well-being after a disaster
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)
The increased frequency and magnitude of natural disasters is producing a growing awareness of the need to incorporate mental well-being and resilience into policy and practice. The present research uses mental well-being ...
A relação entre o social e o natural nas abordagens de hazards e de desastresThe relation between the social and the natural in the approach of hazards and disasters
(ANPPAS - Revista Ambiente e Sociedade, 2001)
Urban expansion and environmental risk in the Sao Paulo Metropolitan Area
(Inter-researchOldendorf LuheAlemanha, 2013)