Vulnerability, Disasters, and the Digital Divide
Tourism, disasters and vulnerability
... man-made disasters to have a negative impact, particularly those tourism areas developed along the ...destinations. Vulnerability reduction is therefore at the very heart of the risk management processes ...
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Assessing the Vulnerability of the Fiber Infrastructure to Disasters
... natural disasters, such as earthquakes or floods, as well as to physical attacks, such as an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) ...the vulnerability of (geographical) networks to such ...of disasters that ...
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Education and Differential Vulnerability to Natural Disasters
... Apart from the above mentioned direct impacts, education may indirectly reduce vulnerability through many other means. Firstly, education improves socio-economic status as evident that education generally ...
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Vulnerability assessment for climate induced disasters in Malaysia
... induced disasters can be considered as an outcome of a triggering agents (often known as the hazard) and vulnerability ...climate-induced disasters, humans do not have the control over the triggering ...
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Mapping Vulnerability to Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean,
... increased vulnerability to natural ...no disasters of any type are historically consistent with unpopulated ...more disasters, but when country area and population density are taken into account, ...
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Social Vulnerability to Disasters, Second Edition (ISBN: )
... Social Vulnerability to Disasters, Second Edition (ISBN: 978-1-4665-1637-3) Sudha Arlikatti, PhD, is an Associate Professor and the Emergency Administration and Planning Program Coordinator in the ...
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Vulnerability of Community Businesses to Environmental Disasters
... Such arrangements by local planners are sorely needed because federal programs such as SBA loans and Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA recovery programs are often ineffective in f[r] ...
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The Digital Divide: How Does it Divide Hoosiers?
... companies did not have the same reimbursement plan for virtual visits. 6 During the pandemic, waivers, especially for Medicare patients, made telemedicine financially lucrative for medical providers. 6 Access to ...
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Digital politics divide : the digital divide in building political e-practices
... One of these maps identifies the so-called backstrokers, that is the size of the bandwidth available for each country, and the more general technological infrastructure which supports the Internet. What is commonly known ...
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Trends in Digital Divide
... Trends in ICTs for Human Development: Digital Divide 1. Introduction Information and communication technologies (ICT) have the potential to offer vast advantages to users. ICT could bring broad and in-depth ...
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Rethinking the Digital Divide
... “digital divide” people tend to think in terms of the binary oppositions of “digital-haves” and ...“digital divide” also tend to be “top- down” initiatives that focus on the provision ...
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Digital Divide and Poverty
... Digital Divide and Poverty Kumar Venkat ABSTRACT. Many high technology executives and political leaders increasingly believe that bridging the so-called digital divide would lift people out of ...
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The Gender Digital Divide
... gender, digital divide still occurs between genders in terms of the actual physical ICT possession, access to the Internet and the quantity and intensity of ICT ...gender digital divide not ...
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Dynamics of the digital divide
... the digital divide, we need to understand the outcomes and processes associated with antidiffusion, where households who had access to the internet lose their access to it over ...
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Conceptualising the digital divide
... that digital divide and digital inequalities tend to strengthen social inequalities already existing in the offline society, both at the micro and macro levels, and enlarge the gap between the less ...
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UNDERSTANDING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
... Overcoming the digital divide The importance of policy and regulatory reform needs to be underlined. The policy rationale is the social benefits to be derived from the spillovers and positive externalities ...
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IoT and the Digital Divide
... Developing countries are stepping up efforts to implement their ICT strategies, including those for national broadband, e-government, and e-education. For each GCI* percentage point i[r] ...
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The Evolution of the Digital Divide
... The second main conclusion was that there were significant differences of performance between people with different age and education. The most important factor appeared to be educational background. People with higher ...
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From Digital Divide to Psycho-digital Divide: Elders and Online Social Networks
... the digital divide, our results show that socio-demographic varia- bles do not serve to differentiate among the elderly regarding their use of social ...
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From Digital Divide to Psycho-digital Divide: Elders and Online Social Networks
... the digital divide are correct and that the psychological variables serve to a greater extent to show the significant differences with respect to determining their ...
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