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–plant firms with their use of bills-of-exchange; the Bautier-Verlinden model on the ‘industrialization of 14th century Italy’; and …
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insurance demand in Italy, with particular reference to the economic activities? Extreme precipitation events over most of the … century, as global mean surface temperature increases. If we look to Italy, examination of the precipitation time series shows … a sensitive and highly significant decrease in the total number of precipitation events in Italy, with a trend of events …
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in Italy: principally Tuscany and Lombardy. In so far as warfare and rising transaction costs limited the importation of …
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in Venice (c. 1800-44). At a time of transition in finance and cash shortage, Bogdano offered credit at a ‘just’ interest …
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, via new transcontinental trading routes from Venice through Germany to the Brabant Fairs, based on a tripod of English … decline of the Venetian cloth industry in the 17th century have focused on Venice’s own ‘internal faults’, this paper offers … major share of Ottoman and Persian markets, at the direct expense of Venice: through a combination of diplomacy and superior …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze some of the unseen negative effects of the post-Katrina government policies dealing with housing in New Orleans. Design/methodology/approach – Since Hurricane Katrina, the government, along with private for profit and not-for-profit...
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Among „the bad years” of the 18th century that affected the city of Arad, 14 of it were because of the floods, the most … Mureş, and the urban policy thought about the danger of the floods, the city of Arad kept to be endangered by the river in …
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such bad practices, these areas being also exposed to stronger floods. The paper aims to calculate the potential waste …
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-affected area. The most recent floods however, were different because of the magnitude of their effect. Nearly 90 per cent of the … people's coping abilities. In the wake of the floods the Department of Human Resource Development of the Veer Narmad South …
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This non-technical summary presents the findings and recommendations from the project called ‘Analysis of institutional adaptability to redress electricity infrastructure vulnerability due to climate change’. The objectives of the project are to examine the adaptive capacity of existing...
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