natural disasters

Natural disasters and clientelism: the case of floods and landslides in Colombia
... of natural disasters, this description suggests that the political implications of the lethality of such events in clientelistic democracies, in many cases, could be closer to what happens in ...
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Natural disasters and poverty in Latin America: welfare impacts and social protection solutions
... that natural disasters decrease welfare (and therefore increase poverty) seems obvious, proving this in a credible way has long proved challenging, and more so in the ...which disasters can leave ...
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Vulnerabilidad, pobreza y desastres ´socionaturales´ en Centroamérica y El Caribe1 Vulnerability, poverty and socio-natural disasters in Central America and The Caribbean
... desastre natural es la coincidencia entre un fenómeno natural peligroso y determinadas situaciones especí- fi cas”, y es en este punto donde los procesos de urbanización y los desastres se vinculan, ya que ...
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Mainstreaming natural disaster risk management into social protection policies (and vice versa) in Latina America and the Caribbean
... These remittances, whose magnitude and importance have increased recently in the LAC Region (Acosta, et. al., 2007), are put to different uses: studies find that a large part goes to buy consumer durables (refrigerators, ...
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Prevención de desastres soportado en el internet de las cosas y sistemas de alerta temprana
... of natural disasters that generate a high economic and social detriment and even the loss of human lives, for this reason in the last decades governments have been worried with finding more efficient ways ...
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Adoption of Center TOR: The Terms of reference of Center " was revised and adopted during the Meeting for Preparation and Adoption of the Terms of Reference of the Regional Training and Research Center for Central and West Asia" which was held on 27-28
... other natural disasters, which have caused serious adverse impacts on wetlands and their dependent species, including water birds, as acknowledged in Resolution ...
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3 4 Financiamiento del riesgo (contratación de seguros y fianzas) pdf
... to natural disasters and adapt to climate change, thanks to the continued support of our partners: ACP Secretariat, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, European Commission, Finland, ...
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Writing catastrophes: interdisciplinary perspectives on the semantics of natural and anthropogenic disasters
... The traditional tension between the ethics and aesthetics of natural disasters gives way to more ironic play with aesthetic traditions and ethical assumptions. Subversive narrative strategies reflect the ...
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