Interventions for Managing Disaster Risk Assessment and Climate Adaptation in The BahamasThe United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (2010) defines riskas "the probability of harmful consequences – casualties, damaged property, lost livelihoods, disrupted economic activity, and......
been characterized by a large number of devastating climate-related hazards. While many of these events were likely to have been exacerbated by climate change, they also provide drastic reminders of the degree to which humans can influence whether a meteorological extreme develops into a disaster. ...
The Intergovernmental Expert Working Group on Indicators and Terminology Relating to Disaster Risk Reduction provides a set of relevant definitions. Firstly, a disaster can cause damages which occur during and immediately after the disaster. This is a stock amount that is measured in physical units ...
Climate models can provide large samples of plausible conditions over short time periods that can be used to reduce uncertainties in quantifying risk. Previous studies have used ensemble seasonal and weather prediction systems to estimate return periods of surge levels in the Netherlands37,38and of si...
In our report, we indicated insurers' tasks in the natural disaster risk management, as well as the tasks of the state. The insurers' tasks include gathering risk data, prevention and education (it is also the authorities' task), risk ...
A very high positive value of S is an indicator of an increasing trend, and a very low negative value indicates a decreasing trend. However, it is necessary to compute the probability associated with S and the sample size, n, to statistically quantify the significance of the trend. To calcu...
James Daniell, disaster risk consultant at CATDAT and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; Matthew Eby, founder and executive director at First Street Foundation; Jessica Elengical, ESG Strategy Lead at DWS; Greg Fiske, senior geospatial...
For instance, the worst disaster in Ethiopia has experienced in 1983/84 failure of the main rainfall season, and resulted in reduction of the agricultural outputs by 21%, and GDP by 9.7% (World Bank 2006). FAO (2016) also reported that because of El Niño caused drought in 2015/2016,...
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Within countries however, the differences of physical climate risks between foreign and local facilities are small. We also examine China, as it is fast becoming one of the largest sources of outward foreign investment across the globe. We find that foreign direct investment from China is ...