Located in Southeast Asia, the Philippines is ranked third worldwide in terms of disaster risk in the World Risk Index 2018, a composite index that also includes risks from climate-related hazards (www.WorldRiskReport.org). As of 2015, as many as 40.5% of the country’s total population (...
the Philippines, April 5, 2024. Sweltering weather has forced 3,954 schools across the Philippines to implement alternative delivery modes of learning to protect the students from the high heat index, the government said Wednesday.
i.e., the agent would be willing to bear a higher average intensity if she knew that she were guaranteed not to randomly draw a value higher than the mean89. The gap between the EDE and the mean is an index of inequality within a given group, indicating the maximum additional SUHI inte...