whether experiencing financial and health-related damage caused by storms affects risk preference of individuals in Germany …Individual risk preference may change after experiencing external socio-economic or natural shocks. Theoretical … predictions and empirical studies suggest that risk taking may increase or decrease after experiencing shocks. So far the …

destroying 77,000 acres of farmland. This study assesses disaster risk by using basic pseudo-equation expressed as Risk = Hazard × Vulnerability … at three villages of Padma Pukur union in Satkhira District, from April to August in 2010. Vulnerability to disaster risk … and unsafe conditions of vulnerability, and various elements at disaster risk. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media …

The paper presents a framework for the nation-wide assessment of natural hazards, vulnerability and risk for the … was developed that allowed for the calculation of an overall vulnerability value for each individual hazard type, using …. Secondly, hazard maps were drawn based on an innovative approach of assessing the magnitude and frequency of meteorological …

conceptual framework, which emphasizes the combined role of hazard and vulnerability in defining risk, is used for the study … through the integration of those thematic maps. The risk is computed as the product of the hazard and vulnerability. The … and preparedness of droughts. This article presents a method for spatial assessment of drought risk in Bangladesh. A …

Information Systems-based assessment of flood and waterlogging vulnerability and risk in northern Bihar plains. Multitemporal … losses due to these hazards indicate the continuing vulnerability of the region to flood and waterlogging. Management of … combining area prone to waterlogging and flood inundation was multiplied with socio-economic vulnerability map to derive the …

assessment of the hazard level, as well as to the vulnerability toward distinct processes, and to the arising risk level. As … overall hazard and consequent risk level as well as to rank threats. In addition, the visualization of a range of natural …Many areas of the world are prone to several natural hazards, and effective risk reduction is only possible if all …

on the operational risk management’s plan at the organization’s level. The increased dynamic of the problems with social …

hazard (frequency, duration, and severity of droughts), drought exposure (water use), and drought vulnerability (unreliable … water supply during prolonged and severe droughts, assessing drought risk becomes one of the key tasks of water … droughts and human socioeconomic factors. An index-based approach is presented in this study to evaluate drought risk at …

earthquake risk. While for earthquake hazard-related investigations, the use of remotely sensed data is an established … considers the assessment of vulnerability and its constituent elements as a pivotal part of a comprehensive risk analysis … survey of the interdisciplinary conceptual literature dealing with the scientific perception of risk, hazard and …