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A fast GIS-based risk assessment for tephra fallout: the example of Cotopaxi volcano, Ecuador
Biass, Sebastien; Bonadonna, Costanza - In: Natural Hazards 65 (2013) 1, pp. 477-495
We present a comprehensive probabilistic hazard assessment for tephra fallout of Cotopaxi volcano (Ecuador), a …
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Risk from Lahars in the Northern Valleys of Cotopaxi Volcano (Ecuador)
Aguilera, E.; Pareschi, M.; Rosi, M.; Zanchetta, G. - In: Natural Hazards 33 (2004) 2, pp. 161-189
Cotopaxi volcano (Ecuador) is famous for production of large-scale laharsthrough melting of ice and snow on its summit …
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A fast GIS-based risk assessment for tephra fallout: the example of Cotopaxi volcano, Ecuador
Biass, Sebastien; Frischknecht, Corine; Bonadonna, Costanza - In: Natural Hazards 65 (2013) 1, pp. 497-521
(Ecuador) using the advection-diffusion model TEPHRA2, which is based on field investigations and a global eruption database …
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Remittances, expenditure patterns, and gender: parametric and semiparametric evidence from Ecuador
Göbel, Kristin - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013) 1, pp. 1-19
C14, C34, D12, F24, J16 </AbstractSection> Copyright Göbel; licensee Springer. 2013
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Economic gradients in early child neurodevelopment: A multi-country study
Wehby, George L.; McCarthy, Ann Marie - In: Social Science & Medicine 78 (2013) C, pp. 86-95
Little is known about the importance of household wealth for child neurodevelopment very early in life including during infancy. Previous studies have focused on specific developmental domains instead of more holistic multi-domain measures of neurodevelopment and on economic effects for the...
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System dynamics modelling and the environmental Kuznets curve in Ecuador (1980–2025)
Robalino-López, Andrés; García-Ramos, José-Enrique; … - In: Energy Policy 67 (2014) C, pp. 923-931
focused on economic development and CO2 emissions in the coming years in Ecuador (Robalino-López et al., submitted for … hypothesis in Ecuador in the medium term using Jaunky's (2011) specification. Our proposal goes a step further than previous … term. Results do not support the fulfilment of the EKC, nevertheless, our estimations show that Ecuador could be on the way …
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Financing watershed conservation: Lessons from Ecuador's evolving water trust funds
Kauffman, Craig M. - In: Agricultural Water Management 145 (2014) C, pp. 39-49
In early 2000, the city of Quito, Ecuador, established the Water Protection Fund (FONAG) to provide sustainable … trust funds have been created or are under development in the Northern Andes, seven of which are in Ecuador. Ecuador's later … evolution of Ecuador's water trust funds since the creation of FONAG. It does so by comparing the development and effects …
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The impact of high value markets on smallholder productivity in the Ecuadorean Sierra: A Stochastic Production Frontier approach correcting for selectivity bias
González-Flores, Mario; Bravo-Ureta, Boris E.; Solís, … - In: Food Policy 44 (2014) C, pp. 237-247
This paper uses data from small-scale potato farmers in Ecuador to examine the impact of the program Plataformas de …
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How to Deliver Foreign Aid? The Case of Projects Governed by the Spanish International Agency
Hermano, Víctor; Martín-Cruz, Natalia - In: World Development 43 (2013) C, pp. 298-314
cost economics, this article examines 95 international aid projects delivered in Morocco and Ecuador by the Spanish …
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Linking social and financial remittances in the realms of financial know-how and education in rural Ecuador
Mata-Codesal, Diana - In: Migration Letters 10 (2013) 1, pp. 23-32
highland Ecuador. Each site has a different migration and remittance reception profile, in the broad contexts of Ecuadorian …
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