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Tornado Seasonality in Central‐Southern Chile
Geophysical Research LettersTornado records in Chile show an apparent seasonality with a peak between May and June. We study this seasonality in central‐south and austral Chile by analyzing three indicators of tornado environments: vorticity generation parameter (VGP), storm ...
V. Caballero‐Morán, R. Rondanelli
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Tornadoes in Rural Areas vs Urban Areas
, 2023 The proposed research question asked, “do tornadoes touch down in rural areas more excessively than urban areas?” The goal of the research is to find out if tornadoes do, in fact, touch down in rural areas more than urban areas.
Frey, Tara
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Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how salient sustainability risks from near‐miss natural disasters influence board composition. Using a difference‐in‐differences design, I find that firms located in counties neighboring disaster‐affected areas significantly increase the presence of directors with sustainability expertise following the disaster.
Bo Wang
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AtmosphereStudies have analyzed U.S. tornado variability and correlated F1–F5 tornado occurrence with various natural climate oscillations and anthropogenic factors. Using a relatively new empirical mode decommission (EMD) method that extracts time-frequency modes
Zaitao Pan
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While most frontier studies associate commodity expansions with dispossession, I argue that such expansions can also function as ‘civilizational’ projects aimed at overcoming traditional farming and creating new rural subjects better suited to the needs of capitalist development. Using a Gramscian approach to study subsumption, I analyse three
Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete
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Editorial: Recent advances in risk and community resilience analysis against windstorms
Frontiers in Built Environment, 2023 Ahmed U. Abdelhady +3 more
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Peer Effects on Climate Change Beliefs
Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding how climate change beliefs are shaped by peer networks is critical for designing effective climate communication strategies, yet the degree of peer influence across spatial and political contexts remains insufficiently understood.
Xialing Zhao, Linlin Fan, Yilan Xu
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Frontiers in ClimatePuting beliung, or small-scale tornadoes, pose significant threats to infrastructure and human lives in tropical island environments. This study analyzes the socioeconomic impacts of these extreme weather events in Indonesia over a 15-year period from ...
Kiki +5 more
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Tornadoes: Are They Becoming More Frequent and Severe? [PDF]
, 2014 Inconsistent record keeping, changes with tornado reporting systems such as the Fujita Scale and Doppler radar, increased public awareness, the use of technology to report tornadoes, and the shifting populations have all played a role in increasing the ...
Westburg, Matthew E
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Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates how pro‐environmental behaviors (PEBs) of public sector employees can be stimulated using management control. We mobilize the theory of planned behavior to hypothesize that employee environmental concerns are associated with PEBs, and that this relation can be strengthened by management control instruments that provide ...
Berend van der Kolk +2 more
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