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Linking indegenious knowledge of the community with modern techniques to mesure, analyse and reduce disaster vulnerability is one way of engaging and moblising community capacity. This paper discuses he use of the local/ indegenious knowledge into disater management. It suggest a way to moblise...
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We explore behavior and test theory regarding the determinants of flood insurance coverage in the coastal zone using … insurance cost, risk factors, community characteristics, and household attributes on flood insurance purchase for residential … price and hold greater flood insurance coverage (controlling for value of asset at risk). We find support for rational …
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eastern Uttar Pradesh, India) is highly susceptible to floods with a major flood occurring every ten years and smaller ones … happening every one-two years. The data is drawn from primary household surveys undertaken in the study area for flood affected … geographical location of the households have no significant role to play with respect to the changes in consumption in the flood …
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three independent surveys of tourists and tourism service providers viz. hoteliers and tour operators from the 10-tourist …
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transfer and diffusion from institutions that form tourism business environment to tourism enterprises. Method. The analysis … was based on a case study of the Irish National Tourism Development Authority. The data used were obtained by applying the … content analysis of 111 videos, including 36 webinar-publications directly aimed at the transfer of knowledge to tourism …
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regional tourism along its three main dimensions: organisational, environmental and innovation-process specifics. Empirical …
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-border trade along Asian Highway 15 and Asian Highway 131 between Northeast Thailand, Central Lao PDR and North Central Vietnam …, major cities in Northeast Thailand, South and Central Lao PDR, and North Central and Mid Central Vietnam, ports in Vietnam …
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NAMRU-6), Thailand (Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences or AFRIMS), and the U.S.-Mexico Border (Early …
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This study investigates the requirement for the exchange rate to be a shock absorber in Indonesia and Thailand from … Asian countries. Furthermore, it is arguably more costly for Thailand during the post-1997, and for Indonesia during the pre …
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despite various violations of human rights in Thailand and Indonesia. …
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