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This paper uses cross-country data from 1965 to 2008 to examine how ethnic heterogeneity affects the probability of technological disasters. Estimation results showed that ethnic heterogeneity increased the probability of technological disasters.
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This paper describes the concepts of poverty and vulnerability as well as the interconnections and differences between them using an interdisciplinary approach. While poverty is a static concept, vulnerability has a forward-looking dimension. We, therefore, review the methodologies that...
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Business and risk have always been considered complementary concepts. Many companies are successful because of their … say without being wrong, that risk represents an essential part in business. …
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While exports within NAFTA face a lower hazard, its onset has increased the hazard of exporting between the members …, though intra-NAFTA exports still enjoy a lower hazard. There are differences in the timing of the effect of NAFTA across the … increasing-returns-to-scale manufacturing products faced the highest hazard across all three members. The effect of NAFTA on the …
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, hazard, vulnerability assessment, were applied. These policies aims to improve: town planning, seismic risk mitigation … the vulnerability territory. The theme of “natural risk” assumes a fundamental role starting from the international … ….disaster prevention, cultural natural and historical heritage (United Nations, 1996). This paper will put in evidence the …
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that coastal erosion risk effects flood insurance demand, and that community level erosion hazard mitigation projects … 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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As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world is becoming a warmer place principally attributable to human activities. Regrettably, the physical impacts of future climate change on humans and the environment will include...
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the speaker’s use of the modal verbs that contribute to the mitigation or the aggravation of the illocutionary forces …
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This paper considers the challenges confronting LDCs in meeting the adaptation and mitigation requirements brought on …
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exogenous shock to the economics of US counties and show that non-disaster government transfers, such as unemployment insurance … value of the increase in non-disaster transfers is more than double that of direct disaster aid. Among the implications of …
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