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Disaster risk management assessment
2015Despite its novel design, the still low penetration of governmental instruments for disaster risk reduction in Mexico has led to society’s high reliance on post-disaster measures. It has encouraged moral hazard among potential victims. Even though crop insurance, the most implemented ex-ante instrument, has increased coverage over the past decade ...
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2011
Natural disasters – floods, drought, hurricanes, landslides, earthquakes, tsunamis and volcano eruptions – increasingly cause casualties and damages to infrastructure and property. In addition to huge suffering, the economies of many countries, especially the developing ones, where 95% of all fatal casualties from natural disaster occur, get severely ...
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Natural disasters – floods, drought, hurricanes, landslides, earthquakes, tsunamis and volcano eruptions – increasingly cause casualties and damages to infrastructure and property. In addition to huge suffering, the economies of many countries, especially the developing ones, where 95% of all fatal casualties from natural disaster occur, get severely ...
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Regional Disaster Risk Management
2015Regional cooperation on DRM is now a global phenomenon. From the isolated islands in the South Pacific to landlocked countries in central Asia, regional DRM is in vogue. This is a fairly recent phenomenon that has only become evident in the last two to three decades. Before the 1970s, regional organizations did not prioritize, and in some cases did not
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Integrated Disaster Risk Management
2015The term “governance” comprises a multitude of different definitions: all of them have proven their usefulness, although there is much difference in understanding. The political definition as it is used in our daily life is that the governance means “running the country”.
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Risk management : sociotechnological risks and disasters
2016This chapter is about managing sociotechnological risks. It was in the 1970s that the notion of ‘high-risk’ (or ‘safety critical’) systems started to be distinguished and grouped into an independent category including industries such as the nuclear, aviation, marine, petrochemical or the railways.
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Disaster Risk Management Decision Tools
IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 2001Abstract It's never too early to integrate risk management into corporate governance - but it may often be too late…
A.V. Gheorghe, D.V. Vamanu
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Bangladesh: Natural Disaster Risk Management
2014Bangladesh with impressive gross domestic product (GDP) growth rates for over a decade is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. Yet, Bangladesh is also considered one of the most disaster-prone countries. Floods, cyclones and storm surge, tornadoes, drought, erosion, landslide and earthquakes are regular phenomena that have created ...
Ha, Huong, Ahmad, Akbaruddin
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Geotechnical Engineering for Disaster Mitigation and Rehabilitation and Highway Engineering 2011, 2011
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