This paper studies the allocation of total disaster risk reduction public spending among regions in Peru. The main … received by region in order to prevent future natural disasters. Impacts of geological disaster, on the other hand, affect the …

In March 2015, a new international blueprint for disaster risk reduction (DRR) has been adopted in Sendai, Japan, at … the end of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR, March 14 - 18, 2015). We review and discuss …

The paper deals with maritime risk, which we consider important, no doubt, for ship-owners acting in volatile markets …. Traditionally, risk is measured by "standard deviation". Other risk measures like "excess kurtosis", "excess skewness", "long …-term dependence" and the "catastrophe propensity" were ignored. Risk in 1900 was based on the mathematical laws of Chance and …