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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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, 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 … Heritage@risk (ICOMOS, International Council of Monuments and Sites) to the Heritage risk paper (Italian Reconstruction Central …
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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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of the larger income generating sectors should also take advantage of technology. GIS in Tourism has number of …
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In this paper, we use data from Guatemala to map areas that are important for the provision of indirect ecosystem services—services whose benefits are enjoyed at some distance from the ecosystem that provides them, such as watershed services (enjoyed downstream) or biodiversity conservation...
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The knowledge of the transport infrastructure is essential to define development strategies, especially in countries with continental dimensions like Brazil. Information about the spatial distribution of the economic agents and its commercial transactions allow the creation of specific regional...
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The paper aims to mapping the potential vulnerable areas to illegal dumping of household waste from rural areas in the extra- Carpathian region of Neamț County. These areas are ordinary in the proximity of built-up areas and buffers areas of 1km were delimited for every locality. Based on...
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buffer analysis (using GIS techniques) is made according to the proximity of five critical factors (CF) such as: residential …
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