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Comparisons of post-disaster GLI images (7 & 12 Jan 2025) with pre-disaster images (27 Dec 2024) reveal the impact of a 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Tingri County, Tibet, which caused 126 deaths, 188 injuries, and 3,609 house collapses.

Integrated Research on Disaster Risk
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This study quantitatively analyzes how reconstruction activities caused changes in surface runoff and flooding disasters in Hezhai Village.

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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This study proposes an analytical framework for urban disaster recovery and resilience based on social media data that can analyze short-term disaster recovery and assess disaster resilience from the perspectives of infrastructure.

Natural Hazards (Springer)
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This contributing paper examines the interplay between official adaptive social protection (ASP) and grassroots efforts based on a case study of the rural reconstruction and recovery that took place after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, China.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Seizing the urban opportunity
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The report outlines how cities can drive COVID-19 recovery, tackle climate change, and promote shared prosperity, focusing on six major emerging economies.

The Coalition for Urban Transitions
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This article focuses on decision making for retrofit investment of road networks in order to alleviate severe consequences of roadside tree blowdown during tropical cyclones. The consequences include both the physical damage associated with roadside trees

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
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Societal Impact Statement

Ecosystem‐based adaptation (EbA) is increasingly being used to reduce the impacts of climate change on vulnerable people and landscapes. The international EbA South project implemented EbA interventions across three countries

The New Phytologist Trust
Wiley
Research on post-Wenchuan earthquake recovery and reconstruction implementation:
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This paper is a systematic study on the reconstruction planning and policy implementation of the Wenchuan earthquake, mainly summarizing the whole process of reconstruction from the perspective of post-disaster housing reconstruction.

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