High-Tech Disasters

Sensitivity Analysis of a Short-Cut Methodology for Assessing Earthquake-Related Na-Tech Risk

Natural disasters may be powerful and prominent mechanisms of direct or indirect release of hazardous material (hazmat) (Young et al., 2004). If industrial sites are located in naturally hazardprone areas, technological accidents may be triggered by natural events, such as storms, earthquakes, flooding, and lightning, generating the so-called Na-Tech (Natural and Technological) events and may m...

Digital Histories of Disasters: History of Technology through Social Media.

Natural and technologic hazardous material releases during and after natural disasters: a review.

Natural disasters may be powerful and prominent mechanisms of direct and indirect hazardous material (hazmat) releases. Hazardous materials that are released as the result of a technologic malfunction precipitated by a natural event are referred to as natural-technologic or na-tech events. Na-tech events pose unique environmental and human hazards. Disaster-associated hazardous material release...

The Dynamic Effects of Export and Technological Changes on Relative Wages

he links among trade, technological changes, and worker earnings have been the subject of intense research during the past few decades. The current literature on this subject shows that trade liberalization and technological changes are the main drivers of demand for skilled workers and a rise in the wage premium. In the present article, a panel of 134 Iranian manufacturing industries over the ...

Measuring the Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of Factors Affecting the Export of High-Tech Product Groups in Iran

The importance of non-oil exports and their role in the economic growth and development of countries has always been discuss as an important issue in the economy. Meanwhile, the role of high-tech exports in the growth of developed countries has been significant and developing countries, in order to succeed in the growth of production and export of their industrial goods under the constraint of ...