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At all times natural hazards like torrents or avalanches pose a threat to settlements and infrastructures in the Austrian Alps. Since 1950 more than 1,600 persons have been killed by avalanches in Austria, which is on average approximately 30 fatalities per year. In particular, the winter...
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Snow avalanches represent an undeniable reality in the Southern Carpathians both as a geomorphic process and as a type of hazard. Before the 1990s, few researchers focused on avalanches in Romania. However, after 1990, avalanches became an increasingly important topic of Romanian research...
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In the fjords of north-western Iceland, snow-avalanche and debris-flow hazards threaten 65% of the inhabitants. In this …
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In the scope of a recently launched European Research Project, a team of experts from public laboratories and TSO is in charge of defining the concepts and methodological approaches to design and analyse the technical and economic feasibility of future HVDC grids. This work aims at identifying,...
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Studies of immigrant students in upper secondary school in Iceland often highlight low attendance rates and early …
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This paper reviews economic developments in Iceland following its financial collapse in 2008, focusing on causes and … developments elsewhere on the periphery of Europe, in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal. In some ways, however, Iceland resembles Italy …
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(Iceland), and are based entirely on migration chains. Still, emigration from Stare Juchy has its own peculiarities related to …
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This study discusses the economic, political, and judicial aftermath of Iceland´s financial collapse in 2008. It … be adjusted in two respects. Second, since the crisis, Ireland has made a significantly stronger recovery than Iceland in … terms of per capita income. Third, Iceland´s economic recovery from the crisis is marred by a visible deterioration of …
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companies has lately been accelerating. Along with a general liberalisation of the economic policy in Iceland, there seems to be …
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, but now it is possible to study how the system works in real settings. Two countries, New Zealand and Iceland, have … adopted ITQ's as an overall fisheries management system on a national level. In Iceland, fish quotas were made transferable …-regime. In Iceland the demand for quotas is influenced by unemployment and lack of alternative sources of income for fishermen …
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