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Given the role of agriculture sector in an economy and its vulnerability in terms of disasters, direct monetary transfers are paid from tax-payers to agriculture producers in many countries. Government policies are expected not only to provide higher and more stable income to producers but also to create incentives to attract rural households to continue farming. Nevertheless, these policies have...
Aid coordination processes for post-disaster education in Indonesia after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami tragedy are modeled and analyzed. Stakeholders who shared the same mission for disaster risk mitigation gradually started to work together. Three models of the value creation process generated by the aid coordination, value provision, adaptive value, and co-creative value models, are presented....
The Yonmenkaigi system method is utilized for developing a collaborative action plan for disaster risk mitigation at the community level. A case study carried out in the Shuhachi community, City of Kyoto, Japan, demonstrates how residents who are interested in disaster reduction in a local community can collaboratively develop an implementable action plan for their community. The Yonmenkaigi system...
Major catastrophic experiences since the 1990s and the rise in both frequency and severity of natural hazards have resulted in widespread concern about the financial management of disaster risk. Alternative risk transfer approaches have been designed to support the insurance industry in capping and insurability issues, among which capital markets as well as governments are expected to contribute....
Rural China suffers from many natural disasters while there is an inadequate supply of disaster risk insurance for Chinese farmers. On the other hand, the microcredit provided by rural credit cooperatives has been popularized in rural China and the law enacted in 2002 guarantees the transaction of the farmland management right among rural households. This study focuses on the effect of the two new...
This article deals with the process of a community disaster risk management conflict in the light of graph model for conflict resolution, a game theory based approach and drama theory. The first approach is concerned with the strategic interaction of different players in the game and how they can reach a solution point (s) and the second approach is concerned with how players (characters) apply rational...
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