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Measuring earthquake risk concentration for hazard mitigation
Bernknopf, Richard; Amos, Paul - In: Natural Hazards 74 (2014) 3, pp. 2163-2192
event-driven conditional distribution of earthquake risk is used to prioritize investment decisions for earthquake hazard … mitigation. Simulation of the damages in the scenario showed a statistically significant risk concentration in census tracts with …
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Non-structural flood risk mitigation under developing country conditions: an analysis on the determinants of willingness to pay for flood insurance in rural Pakistan
Abbas, Azhar; Amjath-Babu, T.; Kächele, Harald; … - In: Natural Hazards 75 (2015) 3, pp. 2119-2135
the financial risk associated with flood events in rural Pakistan. Moreover, the factors influencing rural households … insurance is thought to be a viable alternative to mitigate the financial risk associated with the catastrophic events like the … perceived risk of flooding but by their financial position. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 …
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Spatiotemporal patterns of extreme hurricanes impacting US coastal cities
Ellis, Kelsey; Sylvester, Linda; Trepanier, Jill - In: Natural Hazards 75 (2015) 3, pp. 2733-2749
US coastal cities are regularly subjected to destruction by tropical cyclones. The risk of tropical cyclone winds … advocate for annual and decadal hurricane risk to include: (1) the likelihood of temporal clusters of extreme hurricanes along …
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Risk assessment of environmental corrosion for reinforcing steel bars embedded in concrete in Taiwan
Chiu, Chien-Kuo; Tu, Fung-Chung; Fan, Cheng-Yu - In: Natural Hazards 75 (2015) 1, pp. 581-611
The main purpose of this work is to propose novel computational procedures for calculating the risk of corrosion of …. Using the risk curve of corrosion of reinforcing steel bars, building designers can set an allowable reliability to discuss … concrete cover, the concrete mix and surface coatings should be used as barriers to mitigate the corrosion risk for reinforcing …
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Comment on “Communicating earthquake risk to the public: the trial of the ‘L’Aquila Seven’” by David E. Alexander
Gabrielli, Franco; Bucci, Daniela - In: Natural Hazards 75 (2015) 1, pp. 991-998
In his paper on the so-called L’Aquila trial, David Alexander (<CitationRef CitationID="CR1">2014</CitationRef>) states that “much of the international reaction to the trial was misguided because it was based on incomplete, second-hand information about the proceedings.” To support this hypothesis, his reasoning process refers back...</citationref>
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Analyses of Physical Data to Evaluate the Potential to Identify Class I Injection Well Fluid Migration Risk
Bloetscher, Frederick; Gao, Jie - In: Water Resources Management 28 (2014) 15, pp. 5283-5296
injecting treated wastewater to assess which create the greatest risk to migration potential. Prior studies have looked at the …
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Remittances, savings and return migration under uncertainty
Delpierre, Matthieu; Verheyden, Bertrand - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014) 1, pp. 1-43
Recent empirical evidence links migrant remittances, savings and return migration, and stresses the inaccuracy of return migration plans. This paper presents a model of endogenous remittances, savings and return decisions under uncertainty. In our framework, migrants make remittance and saving...
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Privilege and exclusion at the farmers market: findings from a survey of shoppers
Rice, Julie - In: Agriculture and Human Values 32 (2015) 1, pp. 21-29
Research consistently shows the typical farmers market shopper is a white, affluent, well-educated woman. While some research to date examining farmers markets discusses the exclusionary aspects of farmers markets, little has expounded on this portrait of the typical shopper. As a result of this...
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VALUING RISK TRADEOFFS AND VOLUNTARY INSECTICIDE REDUCTION
LOHR, Luanne; PARK, Timothy; HIGLEY, Leon - Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, … - 1996
Midwestern states in the U.S. to trade yield losses for environmental risk reduction by eliminating an insecticide application … and soybeans, to guarantee protection of eleven environmental goods from moderate insecticide risk. Uncertainty about …
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El teorema de la separación de Tobin: información del primer semestre de 2008 del mercado accionario colombiano
Gómez, José Gabriel Astaiza - In: REVISTA AD-MINISTER (2012)
El artículo muestra una situación especial en donde el portafolio surgido del teorema de la separación de Tobin no se encuentra en la frontera eficiente de Markowitz. El desarrollo del mismo inicia con una revisión del modelo de selección de carteras de Harry Markowitz seguido del teorema...
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