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Risk Communication and public perception of technological hazards. First Volume
Recchia, Virginia - 1999
Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently … evolving legislation dealing with hazards, the key issues of public involvement, the risk and environmental management. Risk … communication is a relatively new field based on a sociological approach. The discipline comes from risk perception studies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608544
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Risk Communication and public perception of technological hazards. Second Volume
Recchia, Virginia - 1999
Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently … evolving legislation dealing with hazards, the key issues of public involvement, the risk and environmental management. Risk … communication is a relatively new field based on a sociological approach. The discipline comes from risk perception studies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608545
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Density and diversity of OpenStreetMap road networks in China
Zhang, Yingjia; Li, Xueming; Wang, Aiming; Bao, Tongliga; … - In: Journal of Urban Management 4 (2015) 2, pp. 135-146
OpenStreetMap is a geographic information platform designed to provide real-time updates and user-generated content related to its freely available global map, and it is one of the most widely used examples of volunteered geographic information, a technique associated with so-called...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986275
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The effect of industry, region and time on new business survival: A multi-dimensional analysis
Fritsch, Michael; Brixy, Udo; Falck, Oliver - 2004
We analyze the effect of industry, region and time on new-business survival rates by means of a multi-dimensional approach. The data relate to West German districts in the 1983-2000 period. The survival chances of start-ups tend to be relatively low in industries characterized by a high minimum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305668
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The effect of industry, region and time on new business survival: A multi-dimensional analysis
Fritsch, Michael; Brixy, Udo; Falck, Oliver - 2004
We analyze the effect of industry, region and time on new-business survival rates by means of a multi-dimensional approach. The data relate to West German districts in the 1983-2000 period. The survival chances of start-ups tend to be relatively low in industries characterized by a high minimum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307877
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The Effect of Industry, Region and Time on New Business Survival - A Multi-Dimensional Analysis
Fritsch, Michael; Brixy, Udo; Falck, Oliver - 2004
We analyze the effect of industry, region, and time on new business survival rates by means of a multidimensional approach. The data relate to West German counties in the 1983-2000 period. Survival chances of start-ups tend to be relatively low in industries characterized by a high minimum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261496
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The determinants of regional migration in Great Britain: a duration approach
Andrews, Martyn J.; Clark, Ken; Whittaker, William - 2008
Using data from the first fourteen waves of the British Household Panel Survey, we estimate a discrete duration model of interregional migration in Great Britain. By exploiting retrospective information on residency we control for late entry as well as unobserved heterogeneity. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270628
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Does community context have important bearings on the divorce rate? A fixed-effects study of twenty Norwegian first-marriage cohorts
Lyngstad, Torkild H. - 2006
community-level factors that may influence a couple's risk of divorce: Socioeconomic conditions, the local marriage market, and … the normative climate. Discrete-time hazard models with community-level fixed effects are estimated using a register … drive divorce rates down but that economic conditions do not matter for divorce risk. Estimates obtained from regular models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352590
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Climate-Related Disasters in Asia and the Pacific
Thomas, Vinod; Albert, Jose Ramon G.; Perez, Rosa T. - 2013
Asia and the Pacific? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising population exposure, greater …. In a regression analysis within a model of disaster risk determination, the most significant association is between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507386
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Integration of fuzzy reasoning approach (FRA) and fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) for risk assessment in mining industry
Verma, Shikha; Chaudhri, Sharad - In: Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (JIEM) 7 (2014) 5, pp. 1347-1367
hazard prone industries. To maintain safety in workplace timely assessment of risk associated with different operations … hybrid risk assessment approach for mining industry. Design/Methodology: Accident data from 1995 to 2012 is reviewed to … identify hazards contributed to negative outcomes. The FRA approach is implemented to evaluate the risk levels associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011939176