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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Economic damages"”.
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Analyse der Unsicherheiten bei der Ermittlung der Schadenspotentiale infolge Überschwemmung
… and cultural goods and can be divided up into economic, ecological and psychosocial damages. Compared to ecological and psychosocial damages the damage assessment of economic damages is much more developed, but there is still a lack in data of the existing models, which leads to uncertainties …
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Environmental and economic assessment of alternative transportation fuels
… of radiative forcing, temperature change, and economic damages. We find that biofuels produced over a period of 30 years have higher CO 2 emissions than fossil fuels for 59 years, higher radiative forcing for 42 years, higher temperature change for 48 years, and higher cumulative discounted …
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Implications of floodplain dynamics for reservoir operation
… and flood events cause billions of dollars of economic damages in the United States and other countries every year. To alleviate both types of disaster, reservoirs regulate inflow, decreasing downstream variability. However, one blind spot in current reservoir operation, specifically …
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Modelling the economic and social consequences of drought under future projections of climate change
… to quantify the type and scale of social and economic effects that could occur under these future scenarios are virtually non-existent. Consequently, this study developed a methodology for projecting and quantifying future drought risk in terms of economic damages and numbers of lives lost and …
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The physical and economic impacts of urban flooding on critical infrastructure & surrounding communities: a decision-support framework
… frequency and severity of natural disasters. The economic costs associated with these extreme events exceeded $110 billion in the year 2012 alone. While the causes for these events are many and the subject of current controversy there is little doubt that man’s role in rapid urbanization is …
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Colombia's economic recession : the impact of guerrilla violence, illicit drug trafficking, and the 1991 constitution
… or the 1991 Constitution, have most affected economic stability in the last half of 1990s. The thesis will argue: (1) Guerrilla violence is the most important variable that impacts Colombia's economy, causing severe internal and external migration. Kidnapping, extortion, and infrastructure …
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Essays on Measuring Climate Change Damages and Adaptation
… change is already causing severe ecological and economic damages. Further warming is expected to have a profound effect on the functioning of ecological and human systems worldwide. While it is a top priority to limit carbon emissions and mitigate future climate change, it is also essential to …
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Estimating the environmental costs of the hydro fuel cycle using life cycle assessment techniques and economic valuation
… assessment, is used to estimate average external economic damages from the hydro fuel cycle. Aggregated average damage assessments of the hydro fuel cycle are complementary to marginal and site specific assessments, and are useful for general energy policy planning. For the upstream inventory …
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A Framework for Deriving Verification and Validation Strategies to Assess Software Security
… These exploits have caused substantial economic damages. Ensuring that software applications are not vulnerable to the exploits has, therefore, become a critical requirement. The last line of defense is to test before hand if a software application is vulnerable to exploits. One can …
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POTENCIAL TERAPÊUTICO DA CREOLINA® NA REVERSÃO DOS QUADROS CAUSADOS POR ENVENENAMENTO DE Bothrops jararaca EM RATOS
… public health problem in Brazil, as well as economic damages in the production systems. The components of the Bothrops genus are considered the most responsible (about 90% of the cases). Currently the only treatment recommended by the responsible organs is the use of antiophidic serum, which …
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The Politics of Contagion
… include the creation of risk groups, racism, and economic damages. While we have come a long way from the days of the Black Plague, this analysis highlights the areas where improvement is needed. From the media panic and hostility toward CDC-Ebola policies in 2014 to the current decline in tourism …
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Challenges of Transformative Adaptation: Insights from Flood Risk Management
… the merits of adaptation strategies (e.g. economic damages from flooding), there exists a prevailing need to also explicitly consider intangible assets (e.g. cultural values). Second, knowledge co-production is likely to prove crucial as single actors rarely possess the knowledge, resources …
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Topics in health economics
… for roughly one third of all births. The economics literature has established that a significant part of this growth is the result of physician incentives rather than medical necessity. Increasingly, however, the medical literature is raising questions about possible correlations between …
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Geospatial Analysis of Droughts, Rice and Wheat Production, and Agrarian Vulnerability: A District-Level Study of the self-calibrated Palmer Drought Severity Index in India
… in the last century, causing billions in economic damages and millions of deaths. As the Sea Surface Temperatures (SST) have heated in the Indian Ocean, drought patterns across South Asia have changed; the Indian monsoon has become more volatile and less predictable. In this study, monthly …
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Isolation, Characterisation and Preservation of Bacteriophages for Use in Treatment of Aeromonas hydrophila Infection In Finfish
… is a fish pathogen and responsible for economic damages to the aquaculture industry. The main focus of this study was to develop and use a suitable model to test the efficacy of a phage therapy by addressing the concerns associated with the potential limitations of the therapy, such as …
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Determinación del monto del daño material en infracciones al derecho de autor en entornos digitales
La tecnología ha transformado la manera como se crea y se adquiere la información que muchas veces está protegida por derechos de autor en entornos digitales e Internet. En consecuencia, hay nuevos casos de infracciones a los derechos de autor que no fueron previstos por el sistema de …