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Journal articles on the topic "Natural Disasters in California"

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Hays, Walter W. "Perspectives on the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction." Earthquake Spectra 6, no. 1 (1990): 125–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1193/1.1585561.

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Disaster preparedness and disaster mitigation are the goals of nations throughout the world during the 1990's. The United States will lead this cooperative effort and marshall its national resources to reduce the disaster potential of earthquakes, floods, windstorms, landslides, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and wildfires. These natural hazards cause annual losses of approximately $10 billion in the United States and many times that throughout the world. The type and severity of the hazard varies from State-to-State in the United States. All States are at risk from flooding from sources such a
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Wang, Yao, and Robert K. Kanter. "Disaster-Related Environmental Health Hazards: Former Lead Smelting Plants in the United States." Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 8, no. 1 (2014): 44–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2014.3.

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AbstractObjectiveNatural disasters exacerbate risks of hazardous environmental exposures and adverse health consequences. The present study determined the proportion of previously identified lead industrial sites in urban locations that are at high risk for dispersal of toxic chemicals by natural disasters.MethodsGeographic analysis from publicly available data identified former lead smelting plants that coincide with populated urban areas and with high-risk locations for natural disasters.ResultsFrom a total of 229 urban smelting sites, 66 (29%) were in relatively high-risk areas for natural
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Cohen, J. "NATURAL DISASTERS: Drone Spy Plane Helps Fight California Fires." Science 318, no. 5851 (2007): 727. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.318.5851.727.

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González, Carlos M. "Resilient Technologies Battling Climate Change." Mechanical Engineering 142, no. 04 (2020): 36–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.2020-apr3.

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Abstract Resilience technology can endure and overcome the ever-changing climate and natural disasters occurring in our world. As the world's temperature continues to rise, there has been an increase in the intensity and frequency of these natural disasters. From the fires in Australia and California to the rising ocean sea levels off the shores of Miami and the coasts of India, these natural disasters are not slowing down. This article delves deeper into ho improving our technology and infrastructure will be necessary to survive.
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Ginigaddara, Thusitha, Chathushika Ekanayake, Tharaka Gunawardena, and Priyan Mendis. "Resilience and Performance of Prefabricated Modular Buildings Against Natural Disasters." Electronic Journal of Structural Engineering 23, no. 4 (2023): 85–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.56748/ejse.23542.

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Earliest global movement towards modular construction originated as a solution to the sudden housing demand which occurred during events such as British colonization, the California gold rush, the world wars and post war settlement. Present day, modular construction is explored by researchers aiming to maximize from the benefits of Industry 4.0 technology. Buildings of the 21st century frequently face natural disasters such as earthquakes, pandemics, floods, cyclones, and bushfires. This review is developed around recent episodes such as the Covid-19 pandemic which demands design resilience an
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Dutta, Sunasir. "Creating in the Crucibles of Nature’s Fury: Associational Diversity and Local Social Entrepreneurship after Natural Disasters in California, 1991–2010." Administrative Science Quarterly 62, no. 3 (2016): 443–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0001839216668172.

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This paper examines foundings of human services organizations after natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, and tsunamis and explains why only some communities bounce back by founding appropriate collective-goods organizations. Using natural disasters in California counties from 1990 to 2010 as shocks that exogenously impose a need for collective goods over and above the level endogenous to the community, this paper shows that a geographic community’s local organizing capacity rests on the richness of its repertoire of voluntary organizing models as reflected in t
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Real, Charles R. "California’s Natural Hazard Zonation Policies for Land-Use Planning and Development." Journal of Disaster Research 5, no. 5 (2010): 535–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jdr.2010.p0535.

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California has established state-level policies that utilize knowledge of where natural hazards are more likely to occur to enhance the effectiveness of landuse planning as a tool for risk mitigation. These policies set minimum standards for local government, and range from State designation of regulatory natural hazard zones to requirements that cities and counties include a Safety Element in their General Plan that evaluates their exposure to earthquakes, wildfires, floods, and other natural hazards, and to prepare a federal Local Mitigation Plan to reduce the risk. Such requirements placed
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Srour, Hayat, Ruslan Fomenko, Joshua Baguley, et al. "Pilot study of publicly available data to evaluate the relationship between forest fires and emergency department visits due to asthma in the state of California." F1000Research 7 (August 10, 2018): 1232. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.15839.1.

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The focus of this study was to determine the relationship between asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits and fires in the state of California. Publicly available data of ED visits due to asthma, as well as occurrence of forest fires in California from 2005 to 2015 were obtained, where the California counties were grouped by region: North, Coastal, Motherload, Central, and South. There were no statistical differences with regards to acres of forest burned, but statistically significant differences were found (although small) with regards to ED visits due to asthma attacks by region (Mo
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Srour, Hayat, Ruslan Fomenko, Joshua Baguley, et al. "Pilot study of publicly available data to evaluate the relationship between forest fires and emergency department visits due to asthma in the state of California." F1000Research 7 (March 15, 2019): 1232. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.15839.2.

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The focus of this study was to determine the relationship between asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits and fires in the state of California. Publicly available data of ED visits due to asthma, as well as occurrence of forest fires in California from 2005 to 2015 were obtained, where the California counties were grouped by region: North, Coastal, Motherload, Central, and South. There were no statistical differences with regards to acres of forest burned, but statistically significant differences were found (although small) with regards to ED visits due to asthma attacks by region (Mo
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Mace, MD, FACEP, FAAP, Sharon E., and Aishwarya Sharma, BS. "Hospital evacuations due to disasters in the United States in the twenty-first century." American Journal of Disaster Medicine 15, no. 1 (2020): 7–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.5055/ajdm.2020.0351.

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Hospitals, which care for some of the most vulnerable individuals, have been impacted by disasters in the past and are likely to be affected by future disasters. Yet data on hospital evacuations are infrequent and outdated, at best. This goal of this study was to determine the characteristics and frequency of disasters in the United States that have resulted in hospital evacuations by an appraisal of the literature from 2000 to 2017. There were 158 hospital evacuations in the United States over 18 years. The states with the highest number of evacuations were Florida (N = 39), California (N = 3
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Natural Disasters in California"

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Kibler, Christopher T., and James L. Kerber. "Strategic guide to natural disaster planning, preparedness, response and recovery for Naval Supply Center, Oakland, California." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/27772.

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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.<br>The Specific goal of this thesis is to provide a strategic guide which can be used as a basis by Naval Supply Center (NSC), Oakland, California to formulate a natural disaster planning, preparedness, response and recovery program. The objective of such a aprogram is to reduce the amount of damage caused by a natural disaster, enable effective response to a disaster and facilitate recovery. The plan must be consistent with the supply center's priorities and be within budget limitations. Further, the plan must address additional areas su
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Davidson, Clayton Simmons. ""Natural Disasters"." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1538761/.

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"Natural Disasters" is a cycle of five extractable movements for septet, conductor and computer. Each movement in the cycle is inspired by the ways that humans are affected by and respond to five different classes or categories of natural disasters: meteorological, such as hurricanes, tornados, and haboobs; geological, like earthquakes and landslides; hydrological, including flooding and sea level rise; wildfires; and extra-planetary disasters such as meteors and solar flares. The disaster types are used as overarching themes and also as sources for the organization of the movements and their
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Cleenewerck, Adélie. "Natural disasters : What are the economic consequences of natural disasters for households?" Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-105154.

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Climate change is an important subject nowadays and climate change leads to more natural disasters. This essay is a large literature study on Asian, American, European, Oceanian and African countries about the economic consequences for households as a result of natural disasters and the coping mechanisms used by households, as well as governments and institutions. It also provides information about natural disasters, such as natural disasters that have the worst consequences, people that are highly affected by disasters and places in the world where disasters happen the most. The aim of this s
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Collier, Benjamin L. "Financial Inclusion and Natural Disasters." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/agecon_etds/14.

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This dissertation explores the implications of natural disaster risk for access to financial services, especially credit. Its results show that disasters can dramatically undermine the ability of financial intermediaries (FIs) to lend after an event, increasing the cost of the disaster and delaying recovery. Moreover, the risk of natural disasters discourages investment in vulnerable regions and economic sectors and so slows economic development. Financial risk transfer mechanisms such as insurance can help maintain lending following an event. While many international development projects have
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Olauson, Jon. "Wind Power and Natural Disasters." Licentiate thesis, Uppsala universitet, Elektricitetslära, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-225573.

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Wind power can be related to natural disasters in several ways. This licentiate thesis gives some background and introduces four papers devoted to two aspects of this relation. The first section looks into how small-scale wind energy converters (WECs) could be used to generate power after a natural disaster. For this application diesel generators are the most common solution today, but there would be several advantages of replacing these systems. A study of off-grid systems with battery storage at 32 sites showed that photovoltaics (PV) were more suitable than WECs. The results were confirmed
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Keerthiratne, Wendala Gamaralalage Subhani Sulochana. "Economic impact of natural disasters." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/70405/.

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Crespo, Cuaresma Jesus. "Natural Disasters and Human Capital Accumulation." Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / THE WORLD BANK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhq008.

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The empirical literature on the relationship between natural disaster risk and investment in education is inconclusive. Model averaging methods in a framework of crosscountry and panel regressions show an extremely robust negative partial correlation between secondary school enrollment and natural disaster risk. This result is driven exclusively by geologic disasters. Exposure to natural disaster risk is a robust determinant of differences in secondary school enrollment between countries but not necessarily within countries Natural disasters, human capital, education, school enrollment,
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Heidelk, Tillmann. "Education, labor markets, and natural disasters." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/304527.

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This thesis explores the entire cycle of education, from initial access to schooling, over degree completion, to returns to education. Despite recent gains in increasing access, an tens of millions of children worldwide are still out of school. Abolishing school fees has increased enrollment rates in several countries where enrollments were low and fees were high. However, such policies may be less effective, or even have negative consequences, when supply-side responses are weak. The first part of the thesis evaluates the impacts of a tuition waiver program in Haiti, which provided public fin
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Goussebaile, Arnaud. "Prevention and insurance of natural disasters." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016SACLX014/document.

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Les pertes économiques liées aux catastrophes naturelles ont augmenté dans le monde plus rapidement que le PIB les trente dernières années en raison d’un accroissement de population et d’un faible niveau de prévention dans les régions exposées. De plus, seulement un tiers de ces pertes sont assurées et la faible pénétration de l’assurance génère des chocs de richesse pour les populations affectées. Dans ce contexte et dans la perspective du changement climatique, réduire les pertes liées aux catastrophes naturelles et accroître la couverture d’assurance sont devenus des enjeux majeurs pour nos
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Prevatte, Darren R. "Catastrophic risks and mitigation measures around the world." View electronic thesis, 2008. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2008-3/prevatted/darrenprevatte.pdf.

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Books on the topic "Natural Disasters in California"

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Muñoz, Gabriel Trujillo. Baja California y sus desastres: De los terremotos al COVID-19. Grupo Libro Club Librerías, 2020.

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Meyer, Robert W. United States Geological Survey, Northern California storms and floods of January 1995. U.S. Geological Survey, 1995.

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Meyer, Robert W. United States Geological Survey, Northern California storms and floods of January 1995. U.S. Geological Survey, 1995.

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Shelby, Young, and Teets Bob, eds. Rivers of fear: The great California flood of 1986. C.R. Publications, 1986.

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Senate, California Legislature, ed. 1989 northern California earthquake: Legislative response. Joint Publications, 1989.

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Anderson, George S. Forbearance and buyout authorization for loans in areas declared a disaster by President Clinton due to Hurricane Dennis and the Texas and California fires. U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Government National Mortgage Association, 1999.

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Geological Survey (U.S.) and United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency., eds. Geologic hazards in the Summit Ridge area of the Santa Cruz Mountains, Santa Cruz County, California, evaluated in response to the October 17, 1989, Loma Prieta earthquake: Report of the Technical Advisory Group. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 1991.

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Geological Survey (U.S.) and United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency., eds. Geologic hazards in the Summit Ridge area of the Santa Cruz Mountains, Santa Cruz County, California, evaluated in response to the October 17, 1989, Loma Prieta earthquake: Report of the Technical Advisory Group. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 1991.

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Chavers, Kevin G. Forbearance and buyout authorization for loans in areas declared a disaster by President Clinton due to severe winter storms and flooding (California, Florida and Delaware). U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, 1998.

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Griggs, Gary B. California's coastal hazards: A critical assessment of existing land-use policies and practices. California Policy Seminar, University of California, 1992.

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Book chapters on the topic "Natural Disasters in California"

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Kar, Nilamadhab. "Natural Disasters." In Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Springer New York, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1695-2_363.

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Done, Adrian. "Natural Disasters." In Global Trends. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230358973_13.

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Brataas, Kjell. "Natural Disasters." In Crisis Communication. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315368245-2.

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Souza, Tancredo. "Natural Disasters." In Soil Biology in Tropical Ecosystems. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-00949-5_8.

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Pandey, Rajendra K. "Natural Disasters." In Disaster Management in India. Routledge India, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003450603-4.

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Du, Weiwei, and Penelope Burns. "Natural disasters." In Disaster Health Management, 2nd ed. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032626604-28.

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Kilmer, Ryan P., Virginia Gil-Rivas, Jacqueline M. Tynan, and Jacqueline C. Larson. "Natural disasters." In APA handbook of contemporary family psychology: Applications and broad impact of family psychology (Vol. 2). American Psychological Association, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0000100-034.

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Wang, Jing’ai, Shunlin Liang, and Peijun Shi. "Natural Disasters." In World Regional Geography Book Series. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04158-7_10.

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Pelton, Joseph N. "Natural Disasters." In Space Systems and Sustainability. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75735-9_12.

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Ahmad, Junaid, and Haleema Sadia. "Natural Disasters." In Handbook of Global Health. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45009-0_100.

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Conference papers on the topic "Natural Disasters in California"

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RaviKiran, R., R. Tejasvi, R. Aishwarya, Ma Vandana, and V. Varsha. "Human Detection In Natural Disasters Using Android Technology." In 2025 International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Communication Systems (ICKECS). IEEE, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1109/ickecs65700.2025.11035504.

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Bhawana, Vipin Kumar Rathi, and Sushil Kumar. "CropInF: Blockchain Enabled Crop Insurance Framework for Natural Disasters." In 2024 4th International Conference on Mobile Networks and Wireless Communications (ICMNWC). IEEE, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1109/icmnwc63764.2024.10872250.

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Piazza, Mark, Karineh Gregorian, Gillian Robert, Nicolas Svacina, and Lesley Gamble. "Satellite Data Analytics for Natural Disaster Assessment and Application to Pipeline Safety." In 2018 12th International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2018-78695.

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Understanding where, when, and how conditions are changing along the extent of an energy pipeline system, which can be vast, is a challenging task. The challenge can be even greater when natural disasters1 create a condition where access to affected pipelines, qualified personnel, and equipment is limited. To address these challenges, pipeline operators are working directly with experts in satellite technology to develop innovative applications incorporating the use of satellite technology and analytical processes to improve natural disaster monitoring and response. Through recent experiences
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Oguchi, Takashi. "NATURAL DISASTERS IN JAPAN DUE TO INTENSIFIED STORMS AND HUMAN IMPACTS ON LAND." In GSA Connects 2024 Meeting in Anaheim, California. Geological Society of America, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2024am-403898.

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Gleeson, Tom. "GROUNDWATER SUSTAINABILITY ACROSS DISCIPLINES AS WELL AS TIME AND SPACE SCALES: CONSIDERING NATURAL DISASTERS, SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, ART, COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH AND EQUITY IN OUR PRACTICES." In GSA Connects 2024 Meeting in Anaheim, California. Geological Society of America, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2024am-403437.

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MOH, ZA-CHIEH, and DANIEL T. C. YAO. "NATURAL DISASTERS IN TAIWAN." In Proceedings of the International Conference. WORLD SCIENTIFIC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789812701602_0002.

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Popoola, Abdulfatai, Dmytro Krasnoshtan, Attila-Peter Toth, et al. "Information verification during natural disasters." In the 22nd International Conference. ACM Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2487788.2488111.

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Mykhalko, Olekasndr. "NATURAL DISASTERS IN GLOBAL SCALE." In WIELOKIERUNKOWOSC JAKO GWARANCJA POSTĘPU NAUKOWEGO. European Scientific Platform, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36074/21.02.2020.v2.55.

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Coatsworth, A. "Natural Hazards – Man-Made Disasters." In 67th EAGE Conference & Exhibition. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609-pdb.1.f021.

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Bischof, Zachary S., John S. Otto, and Fabián E. Bustamante. "Distributed systems and natural disasters." In the Special Workshop. ACM Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2079360.2079364.

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Reports on the topic "Natural Disasters in California"

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Bagnoli, Lisa Serena, Lucia Delgado, Jerónimo Luza, Oscar A. Mitnik, Clara Pasman, and Tomás Serebrisky. Shining a Light on Resilience: Overcoming Hurricane Odile's Impact on Electricity and the Economy. Inter-American Development Bank, 2025. https://doi.org/10.18235/0013516.

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Over the past decades, Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced a significant increase in natural disasters, posing significant threats to infrastructure and economic activity, particularly in regions with poor infrastructure. Understanding the patterns in recovery time after disasters is key to designing accurate responses to natural hazards. In this paper, we develop a methodological approach and use Hurricane Odile, which struck Baja California Sur, Mexico, in September 2014, as a case study to understand the recovery paths following such disasters. We rely on nighttime lights data
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Auh, Jun Kyung, Jaewon Choi, Tatyana Deryugina, and Tim Park. Natural Disasters and Municipal Bonds. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w30280.

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Kelman, Ilan. There are no ‘natural disasters’. Edited by Sara Phillips. Monash University, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54377/5336-ebfa.

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Ottoni-Wilhelm, Mark, Kimberley Scharf, and Sarah Smith. The donation response to natural disasters. The IFS, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1920/wp.ifs.2017.w1719.

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Ayala-García, Jhorland. Natural disasters, emergency declaration, and corruption. Banco de la República, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.32468/dtseru.325.

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Corruption is generally understood as taking advantage of public power for private benefit. This paper evaluates the relationship between emergency declarations for natural disasters and corruption. We use information from Colombia between 2012 and 2022 and an instrumental variable approach. We take advantage of the exogeneity of the frequency of natural disasters to city level unobservable characteristics to construct our instrument. Since emergency declarations increase the discretion of local officials towards public spending, it is expected to see a rise in corruption. Our findings show a
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Galiani, Sebastián, Ilan Noy, Eduardo A. Cavallo, and Juan Pantano. Catastrophic Natural Disasters and Economic Growth. Inter-American Development Bank, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0010949.

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This paper examines the short and long-run average causal impact of catastrophic natural disasters on economic growth by combining information from comparative case studies. The counterfactual of the cases studied is assessed by constructing synthetic control groups, taking advantage of the fact that the timing of large sudden natural disasters is an exogenous event. It is found that only extremely large disasters have a negative effect on output, both in the short and long run. However, this result appears in two events where radical political revolutions followed the natural disasters. Once
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Engi, D. Historical and projected costs of natural disasters. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/73028.

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Cavallo, Alberto, Eduardo Cavallo, and Roberto Rigobon. Prices and Supply Disruptions during Natural Disasters. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w19474.

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Noy, Ilan, and Eduardo A. Cavallo. The Economics of Natural Disasters: A Survey. Inter-American Development Bank, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0010924.

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Natural disasters are by no means new, yet the evolving understanding of their relevance to economic development and growth is still in its infancy. This paper summarizes the state of the economic literature examining the aggregate impact of disasters. The paper reviews the main disaster data sources available, discusses the determinants of the direct effects of disasters, and distinguishes between short- and long-run indirect effects. The paper then examines some of the relevant policy questions and follows up with projections about the likelihood of future disasters. The paper ends by identi
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Ramos, Homero, and Michael Pereira. Natural Disasters - A Military Option For Increased Responsiveness. Defense Technical Information Center, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada451472.

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