We examine the effects of natural disasters on income and investment in China. Using macroeconomic province-level data … mortality and morbidity, disasters’ economic damages, government investment and regional economic activity, and infrastructure … development. The Chinese government’s aggressive investment in post-disaster reconstruction is discussed, and the implications of …

volcanic risk from lava flows. The possible fields of intervention are: [(a)] Long term forecasting of the flow direction at … various eruption rates and points of emission by locating potential risk areas and permitting the creation of detailed maps of … risk; [(b)] The possibility to follow the progress of an event and predict its evolution; [(c)] The verification of the …

disasters are frequent causes of disruptions of this kind. This article focuses on determining the risk of road disruptions due …, we determined the relationship between landslide data and road segment disruptions and derived the risk coefficient based … on the number of landslides in the vicinity of the road and its length. The result is a disruption risk map with risk …

highest risk is borne by rail traffic due to its expensive infrastructures and its comparably complex operating structure …

risk reduction approaches. This study presents an approach to transfer knowledge of an extensive multidisciplinary … scientific study on risk identification into recommendations for risk reduction strategies. The study has been conducted by means …

80 sunspots. In contrast, hurricane risk in regions of the southeastern Atlantic is predicted to increase by 73 % when …

The concepts vulnerability and risk are of great importance in the fields of climate change and natural hazards … vulnerability and risk assessments. This paper argues that the main difference between methods to assess vulnerability and risk in … is made using a formal framework of vulnerability to climate change that makes the structure of vulnerability and risk …