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Methodology and findings for the exposure analysis of the Chinese wastewater sector to flooding and earthquakes hazards : Lifelines: the Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity : back...

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earthquake exposure of a spatially accurate wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) database for China, covering a total of 1 … understanding of the vulnerability attributes of WWTPs including their exact location, the number of users they serve as well as … their flood protection standards. For earthquakes, we examine the exposure of WWTPs to earthquake hazards through both …

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Why do people die in earthquakes? : the costs, benefits and institutions of disaster risk reduction in developing countries

Kenny, Charles - 2009

"Every year, around 60,000 people die worldwide in natural disasters. The majority of the deaths are caused by building collapse in earthquakes, and the great majority occurs in the developing world. This is despite the fact that engineering solutions exist that can almost completely eliminate...

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Fertility response to natural disasters : the case of three high mortality earthquakes

Finlay, Jocelyn E. - 2009

"The event of a natural disaster, and being directly affected by it, brings a large shock to life-cycle outcomes. In addition to the replacement effects of higher fertility following a disaster that caused high mortality, a positive fertility response may be induced as children can be used to...