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A gender-sensitive earthquake recovery assessment using administrative and satellite data : the Case of Indonesia's 2016 Aceh earthquake
Akter, Sonia; Chairunissa, Talitha Fauzia; Pundit, Madhavi - 2022
This study presents a gender-specific assessment of medium-term disaster recovery following a series of earthquakes in … Indonesia's Central Statistics Bureau. We develop a novel index to represent women's welfare in the context of a disaster … Indonesia's Aceh Province on 7 December 2016. For this assessment, we combine the village-level nighttime radiance data obtained …
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Advancing gender equality in environmental migration and disaster displacement in the Caribbean
Bleeker, Amelia; Escribano, Pablo; Gonzales, Candice; … - 2021
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Natural disasters, growth and institutions : a tale of two earthquakes
Barone, Guglielmo; Mocetti, Sauro - 2013
better define the geographic area hit by the disaster. We examine two large-scale earthquakes that occurred in two different …
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The impact of socio-economics and climate change on tropical cyclone losses in the USA
Schmidt, Silvio (contributor); Kemfert, Claudia (contributor) - 2008
Tropical cyclones that make landfall on the coast of the USA are causing increasing economic losses. It is assumed that the losses are largely due to socio-economic developments, i.e. growing wealth and greater settlement of exposed areas. However, it is also thought that the rise in losses is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779218
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The Impact of Socio-Economics and Climate Change on Tropical Cyclone Losses in the USA
Schmidt, Silvio; Kemfert, Claudia; Hoeppe, Peter - 2009
Tropical cyclones that make landfall on the coast of the USA are causing increasing economic losses. It is assumed that the losses are largely due to socio-economic developments, i.e. growing wealth and greater settlement of exposed areas. However, it is also thought that the rise in losses is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206832
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Economic losses from tropical cyclones in the USA : an assessment of the impact of climate change and socio-economic effects
Schmidt, Silvio - 2010
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Do natural disasters enhance societal trust?
Toya, Hideki; Skidmore, Mark - 2012
In this paper we investigate the long-run relationship between disasters and societal trust. A growing body research suggests that factors such as income inequality, ethnic fractionalization, and religious heritage are important determinants of social capital in general, and trust in particular....
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Cheering up the dismal theorem
McKitrick, Ross - 2012
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Contributions regarding the management of the effects of global warming
Prelipcean, Gabriela; Cozorici, Angela; Lupan, Mariana - In: Revista română de economie 33 (2011) 2, pp. 30-42
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