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There are multidimensional short- and long-term impacts of disasters (natural and man-made) on human well-being. Despite this, restitution strategies have predominantly relied on asset-based approaches to measure disaster losses and craft such strategies. There is a growing realization that for...
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To date, the discussion about what can be done in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic to blunt the economic, social, and psychological costs has largely focused on government bolstering small businesses through loans and grants, softening the effects of unemployment through unemployment...
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the macroeconomic resilience of the economy to natural disasters, is an important parameter to estimate the overall … vulnerability of a population. Here, resilience is decomposed into two components: instantaneous resilience, which is the ability to … limit the magnitude of the immediate loss of income for a given amount of capital losses, and dynamic resilience, which is …
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Tropical Cyclone (TC) Seroja impacted Timor-Leste with heavy torrential rains over a 24-hour period on April 4, 2021, with an average intensity of over 14 millimeters per hour and a peak intensity of over 70 millimeters per hour. The heavy precipitation and the country's natural topography led...
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resilience of complex organizational systems operating in uncertain and turbulent environments. Perhaps nowhere is this need more … to whether redundant designs enhance or undermine system resilience. Using case study data from three large …‐checking. Further, each redundancy type is associated with its own capabilities for enhancing system resilience as well as its own set …
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approaches to evaluating and improving risk management, resilience, recovery and adaptability in the face of disasters. A …
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Tropical Cyclone (TC) Seroja impacted Timor-Leste with heavy torrential rains over a 24-hour period on April 4, 2021, with an average intensity of over 14 millimeters per hour and a peak intensity of over 70 millimeters per hour. The heavy precipitation and the country's natural topography led...
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