Explicit and implicit ethical issues in the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: the example of the “tipping points” metaphor

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Explicit and implicit ethical issues in the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: the example of the "tipping points" metaphor Questions éthiques explicites et implicites dans les rapports du GIEC : l'exemple de la métaphore des « points de bascule »

Quantitative and Qualitative Data in Disaster Risk Management of Fires: A Case Study From South Africa at Various Geographical Levels

“…Then the documents were searched for the word frequency of disaster and fire, using the Adobe Reader search function (Adobe Inc., USA) or Microsoft Word (Microsoft Inc., Johannesburg, South Africa). Then the words, notions or sentences that were associated with both terms were also analysed in each document (Fries, 2019). The ability to deal with fires the Makana DRM system was assessed by extracting the description and/or quantity of capacity available, the resource allocation and the availability of quantitative and qualitative data on the fire disaster management, or the unit operations conducted in phases of the disaster management cycle.…”

“…which is here understood as a combination of everyday activities and place that a human being exists in (Lawton, 1983). This overlaps with the life space of other people through interactions, which can be traced, monitored, and evaluated as a living and fluid structure of space over time (Gong et al, 2020). ___________________ As a species, humanity has not only been living with disasters, but recent discourse and discoveries in the disaster risk science tend to indicate that humans have become triggering agents of disasters (Mizutori, 2020).…”