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Seismic-resilient bulk power grids : hazard characterization, modeling, and mitigation
Nazemi, Mostafa; Dehghanian, Payman - In: IEEE transactions on engineering management : EM 67 (2020) 3, pp. 614-630
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Earthquake and resultant apocalypse of Shimla city
Harkanchan Singh; Siwach, Pradeep Singh - In: International journal of risk assessment and management … 21 (2018) 4, pp. 332-358
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Responses when the earth trembles : the impact of community awareness campaigns on protective behavior
Okazaki, Shintaro; Benavent-Climent, Amadeo; Navarro, … - In: Journal of public policy & marketing : JPP & M ; an … 34 (2015) 1, pp. 4-18
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The Vulnerability of Canada to Volcanic Hazards
Stasiuk, Mark; Hickson, Catherine; Mulder, Taimi - In: Natural Hazards 28 (2003) 2, pp. 563-589
Western Canada lies in a zone of active tectonics and volcanism, but thedispersed population has witnessed few eruptions due to the remoteness of the volcanoes and their low level ofactivity. This has created a false perception that Canada's volcanoes are extinct. There are more than 200...
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Two chapters on early history of the munich reinsurance company : the foundation/ the San Francisco earthquake
Spree, Reinhard - 2010
way the Munich Re dealt with the challenge of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. …
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Estimating the direct economic damage of the earthquake in Haiti
Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Powell, Andrew; Becerra, Oscar - 2010
January 12, 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti. Damages are estimated for a disaster with both 200,000 and 250,000 total dead … and missing (i.e., the range of mortality that the earthquake is estimated to have caused) using Haiti s economic and …
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The long-term impact of the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on wage distribution
Ōtake, Fumio; Okuyama, Naoko; Sasaki, Masaru; Yasui, Kengo - 2014
This paper explores the effects of the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on the wages of people in the area of the … earthquake over the 17 years after its occurrence and identified which part of the wage distribution has been most affected by … shows that the negative impact of the earthquake still affects the mean wages of male workers. Second, the DFL decomposition …
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After the earth moved : accounting and accountability for earthquake relief and recovery in early twentieth-century New Zealand
Vosslamber, Rob - In: Accounting history : journal of the Accounting History … 20 (2015) 4, pp. 518-535
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Theoretical analysis of urban land use change by information provision for Nankai Trough Huge Earthquake in Japan
Miyata, Yuzuru; Shibusawa, Hiroyuki; Mizuno, Kentaro - 2015
the same damage when the earthquake occurs. However, if disaster risk information is provided, the land rent shows a … population and properties in the risky district that are expected to receive significant damage when the earthquake occurs … smaller than that in the case of symmetric vulnerability for the earthquake, it can be concluded that the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483124
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Parametric insurance : a possible and necessary solution to insure the earthquake risk of Romania
Radu, Nicoleta; Alexandru, Felicia - In: Risks : open access journal 10 (2022) 3, pp. 1-16
The rapid growth over recent decades of the impact of natural disasters on economies, especially in vulnerable areas, urges stakeholders to promote innovative solutions involving risk transfers that account for the new risk exposures. These proposed solutions are designed to optimize and...
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