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In this paper, we introduce a new applicable tool to evaluate any post-natural disaster and its impact on people losses … and damage, the new applicable tool is entitled “the post-natural disaster people losses and damage simulator (Ḧ …-Simulator).” Subsequently, the Ḧ-Simulator works under the application of five indicators such as (i) the post-natural disaster people losses …
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This paper studies the short-term impact of a volcano eruption on tourism demand, supply, and hospitality labour in La Palma (Spain), an island economy that is highly dependent on the tourism sector. Based on a monthly panel dataset at the touristic zone level, we use SeeminglyUnrelated...
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Hurricanes are among the costliest natural disasters in the world, with a significant portion of their impact linked to the accuracy of their forecasts. In this paper, we estimate the economic impacts of the official hurricane forecasts in the US and develop a new approach for measuring the...
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This study presents a gender-specific assessment of medium-term disaster recovery following a series of earthquakes in … Indonesia's Central Statistics Bureau. We develop a novel index to represent women's welfare in the context of a disaster … and after the 2016 earthquake series. Similar to studies using the nighttime radiance to monitor disaster recovery and …
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This chapter describes tools and a methodology to model wind and flood risks from tropical storms under present and future climate accounting for natural infrastructure. Wind forcing provide a crucial link to hydrodynamic models that can be used in risk assessments to estimate extent of and...
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Objective - The purpose of this paper is to find out the key research direction and disaster relief optimization method … logisticsis reviewed and analyzed in four aspects: tropical cyclone disaster, basic theory and method of emergency logistics … the discovery. In terms of disaster types, most of the existing research results pay more attentionto earthquake, flood …
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Natural disasters are a challenge for good governance - this is the result of recent research investigating the effects of natural disasters on one important antagonistic force to good governance, public corruption. However, a specific analysis of droughts is so far neglected in this young...
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January 12, 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti. Damages are estimated for a disaster with both 200,000 and 250,000 total dead …
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main disaster data sources available, discusses the determinants of the direct effects of disasters, and distinguishes …
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application data from the U.S. Federal Disaster Loan program, which provides loans to households that have uninsured damages from … a federally-declared natural disaster, to a panel of credit records before and after the shock. We exploit a … following the disaster. We explore mechanisms using additional quasi-experimental variation in interest rates, finding support …
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