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GDLN Seminar on Strengthening Disaster Risk Management in East Asia and the Pacific : Volume 1 . Post???disaster recovery procedures of the Great Hanshin (Kobe earthquake) earthqua...
World Bank - 2013
In the GLDN seminar, the recovery procedures in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake and the Asian tsunami were …
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Value-engaged evaluation of a tourism-specific disaster management plan
Hughey, K. F. D.; Becken, Susanne - In: Tourism management perspectives : TMP 19 (2016), pp. 69-73
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A stochastic optimization model for staged hospital evacuation during hurricanes
Rambha, Tarun; Nozick, Linda K.; Davidson, Rachel; Yi, Wenqi - In: Transportation research / E : an international journal 151 (2021), pp. 1-21
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Distortions in aid allocation of United Nations flash appeals : evidence from the 2015 Nepal earthquake
Eichenauer, Vera; Fuchs, Andreas; Kunze, Sven; Strobl, Eric - 2019 - This version: February 2019
appeal triggered in response to the destructive 2015 Nepal earthquake. Specifically, we investigate the extent to which the …
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The impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity : evidence from the 2003 Bam earthquake in Iran
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fischer, Sven - 2023
to 2020 for 31 provinces and 429 counties to study the impact of the 2003 Bam earthquake in the Iranian Kerman Province … statistically significant boost in economic activity in the years following the earthquake. This increase in local economic activity … this period, the cultural importance of Bam, the severity of the earthquake, and the media attention. Additionally …
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Estimating the direct economic damage of the earthquake in Haiti
Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Powell, Andrew; Becerra, Oscar - 2010
January 12, 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti. Damages are estimated for a disaster with both 200,000 and 250,000 total dead … and missing (i.e., the range of mortality that the earthquake is estimated to have caused) using Haiti s economic and …
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Disaster Risk
Boccard, Nicolas - 2020
The United Nations Sendai (2015) framework aims to reduce disaster risk. We offer a careful definition and computation of the individual and property risk targets. Selecting the largest and better studied class of “natural disasters” over the period 1970-2018, we show that individual risk is...
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Improving disaster risk management according to development projects
Kwak, Chang-Jae; Kim, Jung-Soo - In: Risks : open access journal 9 (2021) 11, pp. 1-17
Since the 1990s, efforts have been made to reduce the damage caused by natural disasters, among which the Disaster Impact Assessment (DIA) System implemented in 1995 is noteworthy for its proactive response. The DIA System has undergone various institutional and technological changes to retain...
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Climate-related disasters in Asia and the Pacific
Thomas, Vinod; Albert, Jose Ramon G.; Perez, Rosa T. - 2013
Natural disasters are on the rise worldwide. There are more and more intense natural disasters - which are defined to cause at least 100 deaths or to affect the basic survival needs of at least 1,000 people - resulting from floods and storms as well as droughts and heat waves. The Asia and the...
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