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From multi-risk evaluation to resilience planning: The case of central Chilean coastal cities
(MDPI AG, 2019)
Multi-hazard evaluations are fundamental inputs for disaster risk management plans and the implementation of resilient urban environments, adapted to extreme natural events. Risk assessments from natural hazards have been ...
Globalization and global risk: How risk analysis needs to be enhanced to be effective in confronting current threats
In the last 20-30 years, technological innovation has enabled the advancement
of industry at a global scale, giving rise to a truly global society, resting on an
interdependent web of transnational technical, economic ...
Methodological aspects for modeling the environmental risk of transporting hazardous materials by road
(2016-05-01)
The main objective of this paper is to establish the procedures necessary to the development of a model for the environmental risk assessment of accidents involving Transporting Hazardous Materials by Road (THMR). Quantifying ...
Risk perceptions and management strategies in a post-disaster landscape of Guatemala: Social conflict as an opportunity to understand disaster
(Elsevier, 2021-04)
This work analyses a post-disaster case study in Guatemala where a large landslide named “Los Chorros” affected several communities and one of the country´s main highways. Risk managers, starting from their own assessment, ...
Validity of an adaptation of the framingham cardiovascular risk function: comparison of predicted and observed outcomes with international risk models
Background: Global risk calculation is considered the best tool for community approach of comprehensive cardiovascular (CV) primary prevention, aiding in the establishment of health priorities.
One of the first predictive ...
Airport risk of importation and exportation of the COVID-19 pandemic
On March 11, 2020, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) characterized the spread of
the coronavirus disease, COVID-19, as a pandemic on the basis of “alarming levels of spread and severity, and ...
Health-Related Quality of Life and Cumulative Psychosocial Risks in Adolescents
Psychosocial risks can negatively affect adolescents’ physical, psychological, and social health. Grounded on the cumulative risk theory, the objective of this study was to analyze the differences in health-related quality ...