on the operational risk management’s plan at the organization’s level. The increased dynamic of the problems with social …

volcanic risk from lava flows. The possible fields of intervention are: [(a)] Long term forecasting of the flow direction at … various eruption rates and points of emission by locating potential risk areas and permitting the creation of detailed maps of … risk; [(b)] The possibility to follow the progress of an event and predict its evolution; [(c)] The verification of the …

. A high priority for proper assessment of storm surge hazard is the production of maps showing inundation zones for storm … planning purposes (i.e., to reduce or avoid the risk). Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2003 …

seismic hazards and risk in the region has been gained in recent years by using geologic data to extend the short period of … risk from earthquakes because important infrastructure, including energy and transportation lifelines, probably would be …

comparison to that of the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. Public awareness of tsunami hazard and risk in Canada is low because … at greatest risk from tsunamis because of the high incidence of earthquakes and landslides in that region. The most … edge of the Grand Banks. The tsunami risk along Canada's Arctic coast and along the shores of the Great Lakes is low in …

Most measures of vulnerability are a-theoretic and essentially static. In this paper we use a stochastic Ramsey model … to find a household's optimal welfare and we measure vulnerability as the shortfall from the welfare attained if the … household consumed permanently at the poverty line. The results indicate that vulnerability is very sensitive to the time …

the changing role of the risk-mitigating social policies looking through the theoretical lenses of the risk society. The … state shifts towards promotion of individual responsibility for risk management. The welfare state policies can produce … substantially different levels of vulnerability to poverty among population groups facing different risks. In the context of the …