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Hydrometeorological disasters in urban areas of Costa Rica, Central America
(2020)
Tropical countries are subjected to natural disasters which cause
substantial human and economic losses. Coping with disasters in
tropics requires to improve our understanding of the frequency
and distribution of ...
Strengthen disasters preparedness within clinical engineering-CE expertise and knowledge
(Springer, 2019)
Clinical Engineering supports the effectiveness of diagnosis and treatment; it also provides expert knowledge as health technology management, health technology planning, health technology assessment and other essential ...
Land Use Planning for Disaster Resilient Communities
(2020)
Land-use planning that considers natural hazard risk is the single most important mitigation measure in minimising the increase in future disaster losses in areas of new development. The Land Use Planning for Disaster ...
Business education and creation of awareness for disaster risk managementin Chile
(Univ. Eafit, 2016)
This paper discusses the apparent disconnection between disaster risk management research and the lack of tools for business continuity after disastrous events in Chile. As disasters are a common occurrence in business ...
Jagroop, Devawand
(2012-03-13)
Hunter, Garfield
(2012-03-13)
Entrepreneurial Intentions in the Context of a Natural Disaster
(2020)
This study advances the emerging stream of research on micro-level consequences of exogenous shocks, and how they shape individual functioning. Borrowing from the theory of planned behavior (Ajzen, 1991), our study explores ...
Natural disaster risk inequalities in Central America
(2022)
Central America is affected by geological and hydrometeorological hazards
that, together with its high exposure and vulnerability, comprise risky scenarios for disasters. This region presents a significant number of ...