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... Wealth inequality has been growing throughout the world in recent decades. In this article, I explore the impact of inequality on risk-management decisions in a developing country context. I use a lab-in-the-field experiment that introduces exogenous variation in inequality to investigate the impact of inequality on risk-sharing and insurance uptake decisions. I find that inequality does influence ...
... The normative dimensions of flood harm in flood risk management (FRM) have become salient in a milieu of extreme flood events. In this article, two types of flood harm will be discussed. They are namely, risk harm and outcome harm. Whilst risk harm suggests that risk imposition by structural FRM measures is a type of harm that can increase vulnerability and diminish well‐being, outcome harm is man ...
... This work focuses on a modern typology through which mutual solidarity in the insurance sector finds application: peer-to-peer insurance. This cooperative insurance model arises from the translation of the sharing economy concept into insurance risk management, and it is realized thanks to the use of digital technology connecting policyholders and sharing risks. The participants to a peer-to-peer ...
... Convergence research is driven by specific and compelling problems and requires deep integration across disciplines. The potential of convergence research is widely recognized, but questions remain about how to design, facilitate, and assess such research. Here we analyze a seven-year, twelve-million-dollar convergence project on sustainable climate risk management to answer two questions. First, ...
... Adaptation pathway approaches (APAs) have become an increasingly popular means of facilitating local and regional anticipatory planning under the influence of climate change. Many studies in this field of research identify path dependencies as a key barrier to adaptation efforts. However, their respective definitions of path dependency are often vague and impede a comprehensive integration of this ...
... An important aspect of fashion e‐commerce is the emergence of new types of consumer behaviours that occur online. These behaviours are diverse and include searching for, comparing, ordering and returning fashion items. They are driven by various motivations, characterised by different types of perceived risks and objectives, and carried out through different consumer activities. Thus, the purpose ...
riskmanagement, etc ; earthquakes; glaciation; piedmont; streams; China; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Although it is generally assumed that understanding the trigger factor leading to the transition from a progressive rock failure toward sudden and rapid events is better to risk management, the ability to identify triggering factors responsible for prehistoric catastrophic rock avalanches is still debated. Here we describe two rock avalanches (Ganqiu and Shuiqiu) in the Cuihua Mountain area of the ...
riskmanagement, etc ; data collection; hurricanes; rain; Louisiana; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The use of a long-term and high-quality precipitation dataset is crucial for hydrologic modeling and flood risk management. This study evaluates the Analysis of Period of Record for Calibration (AORC) dataset, a newly released product with high temporal and spatial resolutions. Our study region is centered on Louisiana because of the major flooding it has been experiencing. We compare the AORC hou ...
Victoria L. Boult; Emily Black; Halima Saado Abdillahi; Meghan Bailey; Clare Harris; Mary Kilavi; Dominic Kniveton; David MacLeod; Emmah Mwangi; George Otieno; Elizabeth Rees; Pedram Rowhani; Olivia Taylor; Martin C. Todd
riskmanagement, etc ; climate; climate change; drought; risk; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The lives and livelihoods of people around the world are increasingly threatened by climate-related risks as climate change increases the frequency and severity of high-impact weather. In turn, the risk of multiple hazards occurring simultaneously grows and compound impacts become more likely. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) proposed the use of multi-hazard impact-based forecasting (Ib ...
riskmanagement, etc ; surveys; water storage; water utilities; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Sanitary survey data can be broadly evaluated to understand the most prevalent issues occurring within public water systems. The most commonly identified deficiencies are associated with monitoring and reporting, finished water storage, and treatment. Reviewing sanitary survey findings and common deficiencies may help officials proactively determine water system infrastructure issues and utility t ...
riskmanagement, etc ; drought; food security; insurance; risk; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Agricultural climate index-based-insurance (IBI) compensates farmers for losses from adverse climatic conditions. Using a systemic review, we show that research related to agricultural climate index-based-insurance efficacy and application is lacking in many climate and food security vulnerable countries. We concluded that there are countries with high climate and food insecurity risk based on sev ...
riskmanagement, etc ; agricultural policy; debt; risk; swine; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Little attention is given to cooperatives’ role in producer risk management. We review literature and theory in development of a hypothesized positive relationship between producers’ risk aversion and usage of cooperatives. We test the hypothesis using a sample of crop and hog producers and find evidence that cooperative membership and the percentage of commodity sold through cooperatives are posi ...
riskmanagement, etc ; climate; industry; people; risk; runoff; Show all 6 Subjects
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... This interdisciplinary study investigates the technical and social feasibility of developing a domestic raintank programme to increase urban flood resilience. Hydrological modelling of different types of tank was used to determine the advantages and disadvantages of different models in controlling runoff. Qualitative socio-cultural interviews with local people revealed that raintanks were broadly ...
riskmanagement, etc ; climate; climate change; issues and policy; Show all 4 Subjects
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... As the need for climate action increases in terms of timing, nature and scope there is a commensurate call for knowledge and information that can enable such action consistent with policy targets. The European Climate Change Adaptation Conference ECCA2021 virtual session ‘At your Service: Climate knowledge and information as enablers for climate action' engaged users and providers of these enabler ...
riskmanagement, etc ; risk; sewer systems; socioeconomics; soil; Italy; Show all 6 Subjects
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... City of Florence, central Italy Aiming at defining a nature-based strategy to mitigate pluvial flood risk, a two-tiered methodology is proposed. Firstly, the areas prone to pluvial flood are identified by a spatial multi-criteria analysis that combines five criteria (imperviousness, slope, hydrologic soil groups, density of sewer system and social vulnerability) to build a Pluvial Flood Index (PFI ...
riskmanagement, etc ; drought; geometry; infrastructure; livestock; models; Egypt; Show all 7 Subjects
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... This study assesses the potential downstream impacts in the event of a flood due to failure, either structural or operational, of the Grand Ethiopian renaissance dam (GERD). The following two failure scenarios were modeled as part of this study: Dam Break (DB) and MisGuided Dam Operation (MGDO) as a result of a false flood signature. The DB scenario shows that 40% of the intensively cultivated Gez ...
Zuzana V. Harmáčková; Simona Pedde; James M. Bullock; Ornella Dellaccio; Jennifer Dicks; George Linney; Magnus Merkle; Mark D.A. Rounsevell; Jon Stenning; Paula A. Harrison
riskmanagement, etc ; climate; climate change; stakeholders; United Kingdom; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Regional analyses of risks from climate change require reproducible, consistent and robust approaches to downscaling global socioeconomic scenarios, with coherent processes that work across multiple projects and communities. We address this need by developing an iterative approach to stakeholder-based Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP) downscaling and co-design, enabling us to extend SSPs while ma ...
riskmanagement, etc ; ecosystems; natural capital; supply chain management; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Global understanding of the interconnections between the environment and economy has increased, driving the development of frameworks and standards that support the measurement and valuation of natural capital and ecosystem services by both governments and businesses. This paper outlines how businesses can use natural capital accounts (NCA) aligned to the System of Environmental Economic Accountin ...
riskmanagement, etc ; algorithms; altitude; electromagnetic interference; geometry; maneuverability; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The accurate and reliable high-altitude orientation estimation is of great significance for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) localization, and further assists them to conduct some fundamental functions, such as aerial mapping, environmental monitoring, and risk management. However, the traditional orientation estimation is susceptible to electromagnetic interference, high maneuverability, and subst ...
riskmanagement, etc ; earthquakes; models; socioeconomic status; socioeconomics; Algeria; Show all 6 Subjects
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... This study attempts to explain, through the analysis of the 2003 earthquake in the province of Boumerdes. The unequal distribution of damages between one city and another by testing the risk management model according to which social and physical vulnerabilities are directly linked to places. To assess physical and social vulnerabilities before and after this disaster, we selected a set of indices ...