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policies to embed DRRM into the business sector and the role of APEC in promoting MSMEs resilience in the region. …
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have become increasingly relevant. As one set of tools, resilience capacity (capital) measurement approaches may be used to … support actions and decisions throughout all stages of the project cycle. Measuring capacity for resilience dividends, not … scoping out how development and disaster risk interact, as well as for supporting the cogeneration of multiple resilience …
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levels must be complemented by action at the community level. Measuring community disaster resilience can help lead to novel … and systemic investments that build community resilience. Our analysis of community flood resilience data finds … deficiencies and potential for substantial improvements in community flood resilience investment across the region, with different …
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There are multidimensional short- and long-term impacts of disasters (natural and man-made) on human well-being. Despite this, restitution strategies have predominantly relied on asset-based approaches to measure disaster losses and craft such strategies. There is a growing realization that for...
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disaster risk resilience (DRR). This paper tries to emphasise the importance of DRR in dealing with natural catastrophesby … reinsurance mechanisms used in other countries for financing these catastrophes. It underlines a concept that resilience can be … infrastructure network and assets -existing and planned -and ignoring the 'resilience' aspect in infrastructure management and …
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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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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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