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One of the lessons we have learned during our industrialization process is that the garbage we left behind would trip up someone else. In other words, it is not possible to smooth over cracks any more. The home owner has already surpassed her limits; tired and exhausted, but we are still getting...
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As has been amply documented by science and validated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, global warming is a reality. In response to global warming, the interna- tional community has devised ambitious policies that are enshrined in the Kyoto Protocol and most recently, in the...
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Two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999 exposed rampant corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The government's relief efforts were tainted by corruption as well, and exhibited a great deal of incompetence. How voters responded to these in the next...
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of these impacts, a “business-as-usual” approach to disaster risk management in agriculture cannot continue if we are to …
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infrastructure capital. Earthquakes and floods are the most frequent hazards today, and flood risks are expected to increase with …-term complementarity across capital assets; (3) the reconstruction process is modeled in a way that accounts for post-disaster constraints … capital, but also its productivity. The welfare impact of a disaster - proxied by the discounted consumption loss—is found to …
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infrastructure capital. Earthquakes and floods are the most frequent hazards today, and flood risks are expected to increase with …-term complementarity across capital assets; (3) the reconstruction process is modeled in a way that accounts for post-disaster constraints … capital, but also its productivity. The welfare impact of a disaster-proxied by the discounted consumption loss-is found to …
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