We analyze the impact of short-run and long-run earthquake risk on Japanese property prices. We exploit a rich panel data set of property characteristics, ward attractiveness information, macroeconomic variables, seismic hazard data, and historical earthquake occurrences, supplemented with...

The vulnerability index presented in this paper is a tool to measure the vulnerability of different city areas related to flooding. The index is applied to the boroughs of the City of Hamburg. The city faces three different kinds of flood risks: storm surges, inland flooding and heavy rainfall....

The Índice de Vulnerabilidade Social (IVS) and the Atlas da Vulnerabilidade Social (AVS) of the municipalities and metropolitan regions arise by an effort of selection, development and georeferencing of indicators that could express conditions of social vulnerability in the different scales of...

This work aims to verify to what extent the development style that is underway in the municipality of Tupaciguara is determined to exclude part of the population from the local productive systems, thus increasing the number of people living in conditions extreme poverty, poverty and low income...

The article describes and analyses data on the homeless population that are available in the Cadastro Único. The aim is to present some input to the betterment of public policies, offering a diagnostic of the current situation in Brazil. The article also presents a method for the compilation,...

The word Matopiba refers to the region that is formed by municipalities in the frontier of the states of Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia, which in the last two decades has been rapid transformations in its dynamics of land occupation due to expansion of the agricultural activity, a...

Purpose: In most countries, development, growth, and sustenance of industrial facilities are given utmost importance due to the influence in the socio-economic development of the country. Therefore, special economic zones, or industrial areas or industrial cities are developed in order to...

Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 outbreak, an emergency policy initiative called "Suspending Classes Without Stopping Learning" was launched by the Chinese government to continue teaching activities as schools across the country were closed to contain the virus. However, there is ambiguity...

Experience gained from NATO operations shows that the basis for an effective solution to a crisis is a combination of a comprehensive political, civilian and military approach. The cooperation of all stakeholders is thus a basic prerequisite for the effective resolution of crisis situations....

The ability of emergency management organizations to perform effectively in the eyes of the public has been argued to stem from organizational culture, and a proclivity to overcome path dependent effects that may inhibit changes to enhance service provision. One mechanism argued to be effective...