Search Results - subject:"Disaster recovery"

A Case for Hurricane Irene : Disaster Recovery Preparedness Score

Aimiuwu, Ehi - 2021

This case study is for business students, who are taking a class in Disaster Recovery from an internet securities … perspective. It is recommended that the students should have been exposed to the issues of disaster recovery (DR), recovery plans … this case. This case is about trying to measure the disaster recovery preparedness (DRP) of a university by creating a …

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Learning from Tropical Cyclone Seroja : Building Disaster and Climate Resilience in Timor-Leste

World Bank - 2021

Tropical Cyclone (TC) Seroja impacted Timor-Leste with heavy torrential rains over a 24-hour period on April 4, 2021, with an average intensity of over 14 millimeters per hour and a peak intensity of over 70 millimeters per hour. The heavy precipitation and the country's natural topography led...

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AIB/Allfirst : Development of Another Disaster

McConnell, Patrick J. - 2021

In February 2002, the banking industry and its regulators were shaken by the revelation by the Allied Irish Bank (AIB) that a trader at one of its subsidiaries, Allfirst Bank, had incurred financial losses of almost $700 million. Similarities between Allfirst and the sudden collapse of Barings...

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Disaster risk financing : main concepts & evidence from EU member states

Radu, Diana - 2021

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Social entrepreneurship in the context of disaster recovery : organizing for public value creation

Chandra, Yanto; Paras, Arnil - In: Public management review 23 (2021) 12, pp. 1856-1877

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Mandated vs. Voluntary Adaptation to Natural Disasters : The Case of U.S. Wildfires

Baylis, Patrick W.; Boomhower, Judson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Despite escalating disaster losses and predicted increases in weather-related catastrophes, takeup of protective technologies and behaviors appears limited by myopia, externalities, and other factors. One response to such frictions is to mandate adaptive investment. We measure the effect of...

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Electoral earthquake : natural disasters and the geography of discontent

Cerqua, Augusto; Ferrante, Chiara; Letta, Marco - 2021

The recent literature on the determinants of populism has highlighted the role of long-term trends of progressive isolation and prolonged economic stagnation in engendering discontent and, in turn, demand for political change. We investigate, instead, the potential of unanticipated local shocks...

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Unraveling the effects of tropical cyclones on economic sectors worldwide : direct and indirect impacts

Kunze, Sven - In: Environmental and resource economics 78 (2021) 4, pp. 545-569

This paper examines the current, lagged, and indirect effects of tropical cyclones on annual sectoral growth worldwide. The main explanatory variable is a new damage measure for local tropical cyclone intensity based on meteorological data weighted for individual sectoral exposure, which is...

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Resilience to disaster : evidence from daily wellbeing data

Frijters, Paul; Johnston, David; Knott, Rachel J.; … - 2021

As the severity and frequency of natural disasters become more pronounced with climate change and the increased habitation of at-risk areas, it is important to understand people's resilience to them. We quantify resilience by estimating how natural disasters in the US impacted individual...

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On well-being of households in Japan and post-disaster reinstatement

Shukla, Jyoti; Yukutake, Norifumi; Tiwari, Piyush - 2021

There are multidimensional short- and long-term impacts of disasters (natural and man-made) on human well-being. Despite this, restitution strategies have predominantly relied on asset-based approaches to measure disaster losses and craft such strategies. There is a growing realization that for...

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