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Hurricane preparedness and planning in coastal public school districts in the United States

Meter, Jessica; Schmidlin, Thomas - In: Natural Hazards 66 (2013) 2, pp. 1029-1036

hurricane preparedness to students and 85 % train staff members in hurricane preparedness. Sources of information about cyclone …. Most districts (75 %) would use schools as storm shelters, and 92 % would use school busses to assist in community … less likely to use school busses for evacuations, and smaller school districts were less likely to provide schools as storm …

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The Unsustainable Trend of Natural Hazard Losses in the United States

Gall, Melanie; Borden, Kevin A.; Emrich, Christopher T.; … - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 11, pp. 2157-2181

In the United States, direct losses from natural hazards are on the rise with hurricanes, flooding, and severe storms contributing about three quarters of the total damages. While losses from severe storms have been stable over the past fifty years, hurricane and flood losses have tripled. Per...

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Time-varying effects of extreme weather shocks on output growth of the United States

Sheng, Xin; Gupta, Rangan; Cepni, Oguzhan - 2023

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Internal factors supporting business and technological transformation in the context of Industry 4.0

Kohnová, Lucia; Papula, Ján; Salajová, Nikola - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 20 (2019), pp. 137-145

Radical changes resulting from the Fourth Industrial Revolution strongly affect industrialized European countries. In particular, due to the new technologies that are characteristic of Industry 4.0, it will be essential for companies to make the necessary changes and achieve competitiveness...

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