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Slovenians feel vulnerable to extreme weather, floods, and geological disasters but show high disaster awareness, trust in authorities, and proactive preparedness, ensuring strong resilience.
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Slovenia is raising levees and levies in a nationwide effort to become resilient to heavy rainfall and flash flooding.
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This seismic risk profile of Slovenia, produced by the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation summarizes key metrics of seismic risk, allowing stakeholders in risk management to get an overview of the risk in the country.
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Government adopts changes to Natural Disaster Recovery Act to expedite relief, remedial actions
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Slovenia's Voluntary National Report for the Midterm Review of the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (MTR SF).
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This study proposes to adopt the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) approach to assist integrated flood management and transboundary cooperation in river basins, extending over more municipalities, regions, or states.
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In order to address residual risks and to reduce the damages from overload events, a combination of structural protection measures with additional, nonstructural measures is required. Based on data collected through a literature review, a questionnaire

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Eastern Europe was praised for being exceptional during the first wave of the pandemic but its pandemic experience has been dramatically different this autumn.
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