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Lost in participation: how local knowledge was overlooked in land use planning and risk governance in Tohoku, Japan
(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2016-03)
This article aims to identify gaps in public participation in land use planning to improve risk governance, using the case of the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE) in 2011. Overreliance on technical information and on the ...
Accounting for variation in the explanatory power of the psychometric paradigm: The effects of aggregation and focus
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2007)
Most psychometric studies of risk perception have used data that have been averaged over participants prior to analysis. Such aggregation obscures variation among participants and inflates the magnitude of relationships ...
Food safety
(Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrasilFAR - DEPARTAMENTO DE ALIMENTOSUFMGElsevier, 2017)
Evaluation of public health risk. a new instrument for environmental management in Chile Evaluación de riesgo para la salud pública: Nuevo instrumento de gestión ambiental para Chile
(2011)
One of the main challenges in environmental management is to prevent the public health impact of projects that can cause pollution. To tackle this problem, the new Chilean bill on environmental management has defi ned the ...
Environmental health risk perception: adaptation of a population-based questionnaire from Latin America
(MDPI, 2021)
BACKGROUND: Environmental risk assessments and interventions to mitigate environmental risks are essential to protect public health. While the objective measurement of environmental hazards is important, it is also critical ...
Strengthening the Role of Science in Disaster Risk Reduction: The Chilean Strategy
(2022)
This paper presents an integrative case-study examination of Chile's national strategy of research, development, and innovation (R&D+i) for disaster resilience and the progress towards developing the institutional conditions ...
The contagion effect of public debt on monetary policy: the brazilian experience
(Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia da FGV, 2005-06-10)
This paper attempts to explain why the Brazilian inter-bank interest rate is so high compared with rates practiced by other emerging economies. The interplay between the markets for bank reserves and government securities ...