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which residents perceived as supporting community resilience to disaster. There is a gap in this research area centred in … demographic study to assess community stability and functioning before and after the flood disaster, focus group interviews to … resilient to the flood disaster. The demographic study results pointed to a resilient community after the floods as they …
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The concepts vulnerability, resilience and community are widely used and abused in the literature on natural hazards … of §policy for disaster risk reduction at the scale of community. Here there is often an idealized notion of community as … disaster preparedness and governance, especially the way that power operates at the community level. The ways in which …
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capacity building in the recovery of the community. Resilience literature also suggests a staged model of disaster impacts and …Disasters are unpredictable events that have catastrophic impacts. There is now a focus on disaster resilience and … Cohesion and the Index of Perceived Community Resilience are examined in each community for relationships (correlation) between …
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Purpose The paper aims to examine the conditions under which disaster entrepreneurship contributes to community …-level resilience. The authors define disaster entrepreneurship as attempts by the private sector to create or maintain value during and … services required by community stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach This paper builds a typology of disaster …
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strategies on household level rather than mobilizing the Ebo Town community for more effective action. Many people thought they …
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growth. Flood damages affect Coastal firms hitting their labour productivity, capital stock and inventories. We find that the …-reinforcing and path-dependent agglomeration processes. We then introduce five scenarios considering flood hazards characterized by … regions. If strong flood hazards hit frequently the Coastal region before agglomeration forces trigger high levels of …
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