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Krisenintervention im Rahmen des Forschungsgebietes Stress, Belastung und Beanspruchung. Aus der Betroffenenperspektive ist der Umgang …
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This paper is a comparative study of the responses to the 1995 Wharton School survey of derivative usage among US non-financial firms and a 1997 companion survey on German non-financial firms. It is not a mere comparison of the results of both studies but a comparative study, drawing a...
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Pacific? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors—rising population exposure, greater population vulnerability … disasters and population exposure, represented by population densities. Population vulnerability also matters, but increasing …
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exposure and sensitivity minus the adaptive capacity to obtain the vulnerability index. We discuss the similarities and …. Also we found that 16 % of the total population in the country is located in high-exposure areas. In addition, 41 % lives … to guide policies aimed at reducing exposure and sensitivity and increasing adaptive capacity. Copyright Springer Science …
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The paper focuses on automatic extraction of building stock information for quantifying physical exposure and its …
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assesses the relationships among four critical components, namely exposure, hazard, vulnerability and capacities and measures … each component factor. The general characteristics of vulnerability, risk, exposure and capacities and measures are well …
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hazard (frequency, duration, and severity of droughts), drought exposure (water use), and drought vulnerability (unreliable …
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climate change. The approach underlines that the key factors of such a common framework are related to the exposure of a …
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waterlogging hazards. This paper describes our exposure assessment of old-style residences in Shanghai during rainstorm … Shanghai Flood Risk Information Center. Each old-style residence was ranked according to its degree of exposure indicated by … the inundation depth of that residence. An exposure assessment model was then built to integrate three ranks of exposure …
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This paper presents the construction classification of the existing engineering covers in Taiwan. The exposure profile … earthquake with consideration of the dynamic nature of structural changes and exposure values during a construction project …
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