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Supply chain sustainability and risk management in food cold chains : a literature review

Khalid, Raja Usman; Jajja, Muhammad Shakeel Sadiq; … - In: Modern supply chain research and applications 6 (2024) 2, pp. 193-221

Purpose - This article aims to evaluate published food cold chain (FCC) literature against risk management and supply chain sustainability concepts. Design/methodology/approach - The article uses the theory refinement logic proposed by Seuring et al. (2021) to analyze the contents of FCC...

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Dealing with Smoothed Return Series in Risk Management and Asset Allocation

Frei, Christian W - 2023

Smoothed returns that can occur as a result of an appraisal based valuation process distort asset characteristics (in particular volatility and correlations). Using a simple but often used model for smoothed return series this paper studies the performance of different approaches of dealing with...

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Urban Flood Risk Handbook

Campos, Ana; Doeffinger, Tess; Ferguson, Scott; … - 2023

This Urban Flood Risk Handbook: Assessing Risk and Identifying Interventions is a roadmap for conducting an urban flood risk assessment in any city in the world. It includes practical guidance for a flood risk assessment project, covering the key hazard and risk modeling stages as well as the...

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A Review of Disaster Risk Management for Fragility, Conflict and Violence Countries in the World Bank Portfolio

Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR); … - 2023

This portfolio review, led by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery's (GFDRR) Disaster-FCV Nexus thematic area, aims to contribute to the GFDRR's overarching objective to help low- and middle-income countries understand and reduce their vulnerability to natural hazards and...

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Making Government-Led Risk and Crisis Communication More Effective

You, Myoungsoon - 2023

Government-led risk and crisis communication (RCC) is an essential priority in directing and supporting effective pandemic response in a country. Ineffective RCC during public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic can lead to public confusion, fear, and distrust, which eventually...

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Advancing Disaster Risk Finance in Dominica

World Bank - 2023

The objective of this report is to make recommendations for the Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica (GoCD) for the formulation of a country-specific comprehensive disaster risk financing (DRF) strategy, based on the assessment of the legislative, financial management, fiscal, and...

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Banking Sector Risk in the Aftermath of Climate Change and Environmental-Related Natural Disasters

Nie, Owen; Regelink, Martijn; Wang, Dieter - 2023

Climate change and environmental risks are increasingly recognized as a concern for financial authorities, yet … aggregate impact of physical risks from climate and environmental-related natural disasters on bank balance sheets across 184 …, assess, and mitigate climate and environmental related physical risks to the banking sector …

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Advancing Disaster Risk Financing in Sint Maarten

Boyer, Mary; De Kort, Rendell Ernest; Gunaskera, Rashmin; … - 2023

Historical losses due to hurricanes have been significant in Sint Maarten (SXM) since 1960, with the most severe impact having been experienced in 2017 following Hurricane Irma. The objective of this report is to provide recommendations to the Government of Sint Maarten (GoSXM) for the...

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Climate Risks, Exposure, Vulnerability and Resilience in Nepal

Amadio, M.; Behrer, A.P; Bosch, L.; Kaila, H.K; Krishnan, N. - 2023

The authors investigate key climate change hazards affecting Nepali households and livelihoods: river flooding, heat exposure, drought, landslides, and air pollution. The authors analyze the distributional impacts of these hazards by combining spatial distributions of exposure with measures of...

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Reducing Wildfire Risk through Sustainable Forest Management

World Bank - 2023

Lebanon's forest landscapes are unique in the Mediterranean region and, over the centuries, have provided multiple socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental benefits. However, societal changes have had a significant impact on these landscapes, putting them at risk of further degradation....

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