نتایج جستجو برای: natural disasters
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Little is known about the fiscal costs of natural disasters, especially regarding social safety nets that do not specifically target extreme weather events. This paper shows that US hurricanes lead to substantial increases in non-disaster government transfers, such as unemployment insurance and public medical payments, in affected counties in the decade after a hurricane. The present value of t...
Many transnational organisations work to support efforts to eliminate maternal and child undernutrition in high-burden countries. Financial, intellectual, and personal linkages bind these organisations loosely together as components of an international nutrition system. In this paper, we argue that such a system should deliver in four functional areas: stewardship, mobilisation of financial res...
Previous research on warfare in a worldwide sample of societies by Ember and Ember (Journal of Conflict Resolution, 36, 242-262, 1992a) found a strong relationship between resource unpredictability (particularly food scarcity caused by natural disasters) in nonstate, nonpacified societies and overall warfare frequency. Focusing on eastern Africa, a region frequently plagued with subsistence unc...
Migration is generally considered to be one of the primary responses to a natural disaster. The existing literature widely acknowledges the fact that disaster victims migrate from affected areas. This paper, though, provides empirical evidence of the non-occurrence of out-migration in the aftermath of the 14 April 2004 tornado in Bangladesh. Data collected from 291 respondents from eight tornad...
Sports Medicine Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran Sport and Exercise Medicine Department, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran Iran Football Medical Assessment and Rehabilitation Center, Tehran, IR Iran Corresponding author: Bahar Hassanmirzaei, Sports Medicine Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Ira...
Pacific Economic Bulletin Volume 8 Number 2 1993 © Asia Pacific Press The South Pacific is unique, not because its geographical, biological, sociological and economic characteristics are found nowhere else in the world, but because the combination of these characteristics in the region is special. The region is characterised by a high degree of ecosystem and species diversity, an extraordinary ...
INTRODUCTION We describe characteristics of unplanned school closures (USCs) in the United States over two consecutive academic years during a non-pandemic period to provide context for implementation of school closures during a pandemic. METHODS From August 1, 2011 through June 30, 2013, daily systematic internet searches were conducted for publicly announced USCs lasting ≥ 1 day. The reason...
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