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Flood disaster management policy: An analysis of the United States Community Ratings System [PDF]

, 2014
Author's manuscript.In 1990 the US Federal Emergency Management Agency created the Community Ratings System (CRS) to engage local governments to enhance community flood resilience.
Noonan, Douglas S., Sadiq, Abdul-Akeem
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan, Orkhan Sariyev, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Manfred Zeller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development of a Preliminary-Risk-Based Flood Management Approach to Address the Spatiotemporal Distribution of Risk under the Kaldor–Hicks Compensation Principle

Applied Sciences, 2020
All over the world, probability-based flood protection designs are the ones most commonly used. Different return-period design floods are standard criteria for designing structural measures.
Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman Tariq, Rashid Farooq, Nick van de Giesen   +2 more
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Flood Risk Assessment in the Tisa River Basin [PDF]

Aerul şi Apa: Componente ale Mediului, 2019
This paper presents an assessment of the flood risk at Tisa basin level resulted from the activity developed into the Jointisza project and based on the national reporting documents for the 2007/60 EU Directive on assessment and management of flood risk.
Ionel Sorin RÎNDAŞU-BEURAN, Anemari Luciana CIUREA, Ramona DUMITRACHE, Bogdan ION, Diana ACHIM, Petrișor MAZILU, Răzvan Dan BOGZIANU   +6 more
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Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar, Sanzidur Rahman, Giacomo Zanello   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Flood risk management

, 2012
The EU Flood Directive requires member states to develop flood risk management plans by 22nd December 2015. Along the way, member states are required to carry out preliminary flood risk assessments by 22nd December 2011, and detailed flood risk and hazard maps by 22nd December 2013.
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Adaptive flood risk management planning based on a comprehensive flood risk conceptualisation [PDF]

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 2015
Densely populated deltas are so vulnerable to sea level rise and climate change that they cannot wait for global mitigation to become effective. The Netherlands therefore puts huge efforts in adaptation research and planning for the future, for example through the national research programme Knowledge for Climate and the Delta Programme for the Twenty ...
Klijn, F., Kreibich, H., de Moel, H., Penning-Rowsell, E.   +3 more
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Assessing the Impact of Promotions on Consumer Purchasing Behavior During Crises

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding how households modify their food expenditure decisions during times of crisis is essential because consumer purchasing behavior frequently changes during these times. This study looks at these behavioral shifts during the COVID‐19 pandemic, concentrating on how price sensitivity and response to sales promotions changed over the ...
Wafa Mehaba, José María Gil
wiley   +1 more source

Flood risk modeling of urbanized estuarine areas under uncertainty: a case study for Whitesands, UK [PDF]

, 2015
Aims: The impacts of catastrophic flooding have steadily increased over the last few decades. This work investigated the effectiveness of flood modeling, with low dimensionality models along with a wealth of soft (qualitative) and hard (quantitative ...
Koursari, Eftychia, Solley, Mark, Valyrakis, Manousos   +2 more
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Too Complex to Choose? The Role of Heuristics in Shaping Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Income Stabilization Tool in Italy

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT European agriculture is increasingly exposed to economic instability driven by extreme weather events, market volatility, and geopolitical tensions. To manage these growing risks, farmers are encouraged to adopt innovative risk management strategies such as the Income Stabilization Tool (IST), which offers protection against severe income ...
Alice Stiletto, Ruggiero Rippo, Samuele Trestini, Elisa Giampietri, Roberta Raffaelli, Simone Cerroni   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source