In recent years, rainfall-induced waterlogging has become a common hazard in the highly urbanized coastal city of Chattogram, Bangladesh, resulting high magnitude property damage and economic loss. Therefore, primary objective this research was to prepare inventory map understand spatial variations risk by means intensity, exposure, vulnerability waterlogging. research, factors influencing haza...

INTRODUCTION This report addresses the development, implementation, and evaluation of a protocol designed to protect participants from inadvertent emotional harm or further emotional trauma due to their participation in the World Trade Center Evacuation (WTCE) Study research project. This project was designed to identify the individual, organizational, and structural (environmental) factors ass...

Recent perspectives in anthropological research define a disaster as a process/event involving the combination of a potentially destructive agent(s) from the natural and/or technological environment and a population in a socially and technologically produced condition of vulnerability. From this basic understanding three general topical areas have developed: (a) a behavioral and organizational ...

In this paper, we analyze the impact of default risk on the portfolio decision of an investor wishing to invest in corporate bonds. Default risk is modeled via a reduced form approach and we allow for random recovery as well as joint default events. Depending on the structure of the model, we are able to derive almost explicit results for the optimal portfolio strategies. It is demonstrated how...

1 The Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction 2015–2030 highlights concerns on human health and well-being that are common to disaster risk reduction, climate change and sustainable development. 2 A substantial emphasis on health is a welcome development, given the relative lack of attention to health issues in its predecessor, the Hyogo framework for action 2005–2015. 3 The Hyogo framewor...

With the continuous acceleration of urbanization process, flood problem seriously affects economic and social development city daily life citizens. Therefore, taking Linyi City as an example, disaster risk assessment is carried out, index system constructed, methods mathematical statistics, analytic hierarchy process spatial overlay analysis are used to calculate environmental sensitivity disas...