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Landslide risk: some issues that determine societal acceptance
Winter, M.; Bromhead, E. - In: Natural Hazards 62 (2012) 2, pp. 169-187
This paper illustrates approaches to landslide risk acceptance in various parts of the world in the context of the willingness to accept that risk, the willingness to pay to reduce the risk, and the willingness to alter the environment in the process. These factors are interlinked using the...
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Assessing physical vulnerability in large cities exposed to flash floods and debris flows: the case of Arequipa (Peru)
Thouret, Jean-Claude; Ettinger, Susanne; Guitton, Mathieu; … - In: Natural Hazards 73 (2014) 3, pp. 1771-1815
.5 years across the city. We utilized a geographic information system to embed vulnerability and hazard maps as a step to …
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Road density as a proxy for population density in regional-scale risk modeling
Quinn, Pete - In: Natural Hazards 65 (2013) 3, pp. 1227-1248
with the spatial distribution of seismic hazard to develop a qualitative seismic risk map. The seismic risk map, presented …
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Drought risk assessment in the western part of Bangladesh
Shahid, Shamsuddin; Behrawan, Houshang - In: Natural Hazards 46 (2008) 3, pp. 391-413
Though drought is a recurrent phenomenon in Bangladesh, very little attention has been so far paid to the mitigation … conceptual framework, which emphasizes the combined role of hazard and vulnerability in defining risk, is used for the study …. Standardized precipitation index method in a GIS environment is used to map the spatial extents of drought hazards in different …
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Waterlogging and flood hazards vulnerability and risk assessment in Indo Gangetic plain
Pandey, A.; Singh, Suraj; Nathawat, M. - In: Natural Hazards 55 (2010) 2, pp. 273-289
oriented with little or no attention to mitigation and preparedness. This paper presents a method for spatial, Geographic …
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A risk assessment model with systematical uncertainty treatment for container shipping operations
Nguyen, Son - In: Maritime policy & management 47 (2020) 6, pp. 778-796
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Improvement of enterprise risk visualization : risk mapping
Abdelatif, Aib; Nettour, Djamel; Chaib, Rachid; Verzea, Ion - In: Technology audit and production reserves 6 (2023) 2/74, pp. 28-36
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Risk Communication and public perception of technological hazards. First Volume
Recchia, Virginia - 1999
Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently evolving legislation dealing with hazards, the key issues of public involvement, the risk and environmental management. Risk communication is a relatively new field based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608544
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Risk Communication and public perception of technological hazards. Second Volume
Recchia, Virginia - 1999
Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently evolving legislation dealing with hazards, the key issues of public involvement, the risk and environmental management. Risk communication is a relatively new field based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608545
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The economics of volcanoes
Choumert, Johanna; Lamour, Anaïs; Phélinas, Pascale - In: Economics of disasters and climate change 5 (2021) 2, pp. 277-299
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