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ABSTRACT Recent tsunamigenic earthquakes in Japan have highlighted the emerging fire hazard triggered by tsunami inundation and its impact on tsunami vertical evacuation (TVE) structures. This new type of fire following earthquake, referred to as “tsunami fires,” may be a potential universal hazard that tsunami‐prone countries face; however, it has not
Tomoaki Nishino
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We introduce an 8m Aotearoa New Zealand wide hydrologically conditioned DEMs and roughness generated in April 2025, which is publicly available on ZENODO European Union Open Research Repository (https://zenodo.org/records/16734446) with the DOI 10.5281/zenodo.16734446. This dataset is ideal for flood modelling and other topologically driven analyses in
R. Pearson +12 more
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Risk Times in Mission‐Oriented Systems
ABSTRACT This article assesses risk times in mission‐oriented systems with high safety standards. We examine critical times under two safety policies. The first requires that the system's reliability function, known the first failure of the components, must exceed a reliability level throughout the mission.
Antonio Arriaza +2 more
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Does money affect happiness and self-esteem? The poor borrowers' perspective in a quasi-natural experiment [PDF]
Research on the nexus between life satisfaction and income has looked at lottery winners or postcommunism transition to document that exogenous changes in income generate effects of the same sign on happiness.
Becchetti, Leonardo, Castriota, Stefano
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Abstract Understanding community resilience to disasters is fundamentally important in a world characterized by increasing political and environmental instability. The Social Identity Model of Collective Resilience has examined how the shared identity that emerges among neighbourhood residents affected by disasters can facilitate and coordinate ...
Helen Hart +2 more
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Bonding social capital, disaster experience, and post‐disaster giving in Japan
Abstract When are people willing to donate their time or money after a disaster? We investigate the psychological and socio‐economic determinants of post‐disaster giving in Japan, using a nationally representative panel survey of more than 7,000 respondents, conducted repeatedly from early 2020, including after the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake.
Toshihiro Okubo, Ilan Noy
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From Hurricane Irma to the Grindavík eruptions: volatility premiums in disaster governance
Abstract Environmental volatility can inflate property values even as it destroys them. To show how, this article pairs a postcolonial micro‐state in the Caribbean (Sint Maarten after Hurricane Irma) with a Nordic welfare town (Grindavík in Iceland following volcanic eruptions) because they occupy the opposite ends of the governance capacity spectrum ...
Thor Björnsson
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Abstract This study explores how disaster‐impacted communities in New South Wales, Australia, mobilised during and after the bushfire crisis of 2019–20 and multiple catastrophic floods between 2020 and 2022. Interviews were conducted across three regions: Northern Rivers; Blue Mountains; and Hawkesbury. Our findings illuminate how community‐led actions
Scott Webster +15 more
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In this study, we investigated the photoperiodic responses regulating erect thallus formation in Petalonia fascia (KU-1293). We found that, through critical day length analysis and night break treatment culture experiments, P.
Yuya Maegawa +3 more
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