The role of clean technology research in disaster debris management
The role of clean technology research in disaster debris management
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清洁技术研究在灾害残骸管理中的作用
DOI:
10.1007/s10098-019-01712-1
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发表时间:
2019
影响因子:
4.3
通讯作者:
Babbitt, Callie W.
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作者:
Babbitt, Callie W.
Each year, communities around the world are devastated by natural disasters. Floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, wildfires, mudslides, and extreme weather events are responsible for death, displacement, and devastation to social, economic, and ecological systems. In 2018, the costs of disasters in the USA alone were estimated to exceed $91 Billion, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information, a division of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA 2019). At a global scale, the World Health Organization estimates that natural disasters are responsible for 90,000 deaths each year and for health impacts to almost 160 million people worldwide (WHO 2019). These effects show no sign of slowing, as unchecked climate change is expected to increase the magnitude and frequency of many disaster events.The world’s attention to a natural disaster usually begins to wane after the immediate risk has passed and news coverage moves on to other events. But it is at this point that a region begins to face the challenges of recovery and rebuilding, including the daunting task of dealing with debris and environmental damage left behind. The magnitude of these debris management challenges in recent years is staggering. According to the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA 2006), the single most catastrophic natural disaster in US history was Hurricane Katrina, which resulted in more than 99 million cubic yards of debris that cost more than $3.7 billion to remove and manage. Not only are these waste streams an added financial burden, they also magnify the temporal and geographic scale of resulting environmental impacts. After Japan’s 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, over five million tonnes of material was swept into the Pacific Ocean, some of which ultimately made landfall in US coastal areas in the years that followed (Murray et al. 2018).
影响因子:
13.2
作者:
Amato, Alessia;Gabrielli, Francesco;Beolchini, Francesca
通讯作者:
Beolchini, Francesca
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发表时间:
2016
期刊:
Defense + Security
影响因子:
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作者:
Colin Axel;J. V. van Aardt;Felipe Aros;J. Holguín
通讯作者:
J. Holguín