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Natural disaster risk is emerging as an increasingly important constraint on economic development and poverty reduction …. This paper first sets out the key stylized facts in the area-that the costs of disaster have been increasing, seem set to … dealing with disaster risk. Key sources of market failure include the difficulty of risk spreading and, perhaps even more …
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vulnerable, with the countries of the Eastern Caribbean standing out as among the most disaster-prone in the world. Natural …
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disaster management, especially regarding online media. Design/methodology/approach - The National Disaster Warning Centre … critical and useful tool for developing disaster management. However, the website concerned could not achieve the W3C standard …, and Twitter could not interest people in society, due to its content. This fact is confirmed by Twitter having only 11 …
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effectively and quickly. By combining these features properly, an effective social structure to recover from serious disaster can … have suffered from the disaster, the usual political power structure between them should be reversed so that the latter can …
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today's interconnected global economy. Incorporation of crisis and disaster management into hospitality firms' strategic …/or disaster scenario. …
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Climate change produces future risks and increasing climate variability produces current risks. Reducing disaster risk … new approach to public policy for disaster management. …
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analysis; providing trainings to municipal counterparts; implementation of disaster surveys; conducting hazard mapping by using …
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As societies evolve, often the most appropriate response to the hazard must also evolve. However, such shifts in appropriate response to a hazard, whether at the individual or at the societal level, are rarely straightforward: Closing the gap between desired practice and current practice...
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Falling international prices have helped lower Haiti’s inflation, but base money growth has continued to be higher than targeted in the program. The paper discusses Haiti’s Annual Progress Report on Implementation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper. In the area of economic...
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for the manifold application areas. Disaster management is one field depending on a very high level on high-quality data …
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