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that coastal erosion risk effects flood insurance demand, and that community level erosion hazard mitigation projects … insurance cost, risk factors, community characteristics, and household attributes on flood insurance purchase for residential … price and hold greater flood insurance coverage (controlling for value of asset at risk). We find support for rational …
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This paper describes the concepts of poverty and vulnerability as well as the interconnections and differences between them using an interdisciplinary approach. While poverty is a static concept, vulnerability has a forward-looking dimension. We, therefore, review the methodologies that...
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Business and risk have always been considered complementary concepts. Many companies are successful because of their … say without being wrong, that risk represents an essential part in business. …
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, hazard, vulnerability assessment, were applied. These policies aims to improve: town planning, seismic risk mitigation … the vulnerability territory. The theme of “natural risk” assumes a fundamental role starting from the international … Heritage@risk (ICOMOS, International Council of Monuments and Sites) to the Heritage risk paper (Italian Reconstruction Central …
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While exports within NAFTA face a lower hazard, its onset has increased the hazard of exporting between the members …, though intra-NAFTA exports still enjoy a lower hazard. There are differences in the timing of the effect of NAFTA across the … increasing-returns-to-scale manufacturing products faced the highest hazard across all three members. The effect of NAFTA on the …
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the analysis are topographic maps from different representative periods, and the 2006 ortho-photomaps. Application of GIS …
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methods of Spatial Analysis of GIS technology. Spatial Analysis focuses on evaluating existing and proposed models of spatial … organization, while GIS, provide the necessary informational tools for the elaboration and management of the relevant information …
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System (GIS) under the project titled RETA 6073 undertaken in various countries like China, Philippines, Indonesia, and … Pakistan. The Poverty Mapping GIS has been developed using two data sets namely Pakistan Socio Economic Survey 2001 and …
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Enterprises seek for development and growth  so  as  to increase  their  sales  and  profits. In  order  to  come  to  a  decision  on  how  this development  is  going  to  be  achieved  they  face an  endless  line  of  possible  strategies,  one ...
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The main purpose of this paper is the formulation of a methodological approach for the definition of homogenous spatial clusters, taking into account both geographical and descriptive characteristics. The proposed methodology, is substantiated by SPiRAL (SPatial Integration and Redistricting...
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