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Violence Against Women in Disasters A Study of Domestic Violence Programs in the United States and Canada
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A study of organizational readiness, impact, and response employing a mail survey and open-ended telephone interviewing was conducted by as discussed by the authors, who found that low levels of in-house emergency preparedness were found, but also strong interest in increasing disaster readiness.Abstract:
Although data are limited, field reports indicate that reported violence against women increases in communities hit by environmental disasters. Seventy-seven Canadian and U.S. domestic violence programs participated in a study of organizational readiness, impact, and response employing a mail survey and open-ended telephone interviewing. Low levels of in-house emergency preparedness were found, but also strong interest in increasing disaster readiness. Those programs most severely impacted by disasters reported increased service demands, as long as 1 year after the event, and decreased organizational resources. Strategies are suggested for more fully engaging women's services in community-based disaster mitigation, planning, and response.read more
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An increasing risk of family violence during the Covid-19 pandemic: Strengthening community collaborations to save lives
TL;DR: This article explored the impact of natural disasters on family violence reports and found that such actions such as social distancing, sheltering in-place, restricted travel, and closures of key community foundations are likely to dramatically increase the risk for family violence around the globe.
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Broad threat to humanity from cumulative climate hazards intensified by greenhouse gas emissions
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TL;DR: In this article, traceable evidence for 467 pathways by which human health, water, food, economy, infrastructure and security have been recently impacted by climate hazards such as warming, heatwaves, precipitation, drought, floods, fires, storms, sea-level rise and changes in natural land cover and ocean chemistry.
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Home is not always a haven: The domestic violence crisis amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
TL;DR: Some of the recent events leading up to the reported spike in DV are delineated; literature on previously documented disaster-related DV surges are reviewed; and some of the unique challenges, dilemmas, and risks victims and survivors face during this pandemic are discussed.
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Mapping social vulnerability to enhance housing and neighborhood resilience
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Evaluating Local Government Emergency Management Programs: What Framework Should Public Managers Adopt?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify 30 elements of a high-quality local emergency management program and synthesize them into a single framework that provides clear-cut best practices for emergency program evaluation and performance measurement.
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