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Fiscal Storms: Public Spending and Revenues in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters [PDF]
Recent research in both the social and natural sciences has been devoted to increasing our ability to predict disasters, prepare for them and mitigate their costs. Curiously, we appear to know very little about the fiscal consequences of disasters.
Ilan Noy, Aekkanush Nualsri
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Post-disaster resettlement in the Philippines: a risky strategy
Forced Migration Review, 2015 Experience in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan suggests that resettlement as a strategy for mitigating disaster-induced displacement can create significant protection risks.
Alice R Thomas
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Disaster Guard for Disaster Management
International Journal For Multidisciplinary ResearchThe "Disaster Guard" project presents a comprehensive disaster management mobile app designed to empower individuals and communities in navigating the challenges of disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. With a focus on fostering resilience, the app integrates cutting-edge features, including real-time disaster alerts, location-based services ...
Mohammed Fouzan - +3 more
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Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.Hierarchical multi‐material TPMS lattices are engineered as flexible tactile sensors by combining soft and stiff elastomeric layers with a conformal conductive coating. The bilayer architecture delivers sensitivity at low pressures while maintaining a broad detectable range under large loads, enabling reliable pressure and vibration monitoring for ...
Reza Noroozi +3 more
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Economic development and losses due to natural disasters: the role of risk [PDF]
We show that the relationship between wealth and economic losses due to natural disasters is strongly linked to disaster risk. We first build an analytical model that demonstrates how countries that face a low hazard of disasters are likely to see first ...
Eric Strobl, Ingmar Schumacher
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Forced Migration Review, 2015 Researchers have much to do, not only to understand climate- and disaster-induced migration but also to transmit their understanding for the use of policymakers and practitioners.
Susan Martin
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Frontiers in Public HealthBackgroundDue to cultural, economic, and societal factors, immigrants and refugees are pivotal groups in dealing with social vulnerability in disasters.
Mohammad Mahdi Doust Mohammadi +2 more
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Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.This work establishes Bi2MoO6/rGO heterostructures as a mechanism‐guided platform for high‐performance room‐temperature ethanol gas detection by showing that modest adsorption, in conjunction with dynamic interfacial band modulation, enables rapid charge‐transfer.
Sagarika Panda +7 more
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Rare Macroeconomic Disasters [PDF]
The potential for rare macroeconomic disasters may explain an array of asset-pricing puzzles. Our empirical studies of these extreme events rely on long-term data now covering 28 countries for consumption and 40 for GDP.
José F. Ursua, Robert J. Barro
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Temporary protection arrangements to fill a gap in the protection regime
Forced Migration Review, 2015 Predictable measures are needed to provide protection for people displaced across borders by disasters, where there is currently a gap.
Volker Türk
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