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PP4463-Proposal-for-a-Post-Catastrophe-Debt-Relief-Trust-Fund
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ISBN: 1498377866 Year: 2010 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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The global crisis has underscored the need for effective global financial safety nets to protect countries with sound policy frameworks from adverse outcomes. Complementing the traditional crisis resolution role of the IMF, which has been instrumental during the recent crisis and is expected to remain dominant going forward, further strengthening instruments to prevent crises and mitigate contagion in systemic events would contribute to the IMF's mandate to secure global stability. This paper proposes specific reforms of crisis prevention instruments, and separately presents further considerations for strengthening the IMF's toolkit for dealing with systemic crises. The proposals, which have benefited from feedback from policymakers and other stakeholders, build on last year's major overhaul of the IMF lending toolkit and the reform options considered earlier this year by the IMF Executive Board in the context of a broader review of the institution's mandate.


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Catástrofes Mistas. Uma perspectiva ambiental
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ISBN: 9892619013 9892619021 Year: 2019 Publisher: Coimbra University Press

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The mixed risks, of environmental component, are associated with a potentially hazardous phenomenon with combined causes, that is, for its manifestation compete natural conditions and anthropic actions. In this book, more than a dozen risks are analyzed, which are part of two main typologies: the mixed risks of atmospheric component, mainly associated with changes in the chemical composition of the atmosphere, and the mixed risks of geodynamic component, which relate to forces and processes that act on the Earth (internal geodynamics, for example the risk of induced seismicity, and external geodynamics, with emphasis on the risks of erosion, desertification, salinisation, pollution and forest fires). In all risk typologies, here we analyzed, the contribution of the human being, through its actions and activities, constitutes a common element, extending, unambiguously, its causes and consequences. Therefore, all authors are unanimous about the need to implement integrated measures and actions to safeguard the main natural resources.

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Risks --- Crises --- Society --- Dangers --- Territories --- Catastrophes


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Catástrofes Antrópicas: Uma aproximação integral
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ISBN: 989261867X 9892618661 Year: 2019 Publisher: Coimbra University Press

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In the continuation of what has been produced in the series "Risks and Disasters", this volume assumes the thematic continuity, in a more systematic and holistic logic. It concerns, in particular, the theme of "Anthropic disasters. An integral approach", so it is a very unusual character. Let's say that the type of risks it deals with, the synthesis nature it presents and the organizational structure chosen, gives it a singular character in the contemporary world context. In the path of anthropic disasters, two major risk groups were considered, namely technological and social. The first relate to structural systems to support human activity, such as transport, civil construction, urban spaces (fires, waste) and water resources. The second is associated with social action, and it addresses issues ranging from conflict to Urbicicide.


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Riscos e crises: da teoria
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ISBN: 9892616979 9892616960 Year: 2018 Publisher: Coimbra University Press

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This book aims to frame the study of the different types of risk involving the intervention of civil protection agents, at the same time that it seeks to specify the meaning, in the Portuguese language, of some of the main concepts associated with risk theory and contributing to the definition of the methodology about the study of physical and human hazards, designed with a holistic character and therefore different from the parcelary analyses made by the science which contributes to the methodology of their respective specialties, whether it is natural sciences, social sciences and humanities or economic sciences. In this way and unlike these more specific sciences, which have a more specialised view and, therefore, also more in the risk, the sciences about the study of physical and human hazards seek to concentrate on the overall risk study, through a holistic view that encompasses the different types of manifestations because they materialize. In fact, only the sciences about the study of physical and human hazards possess all the risks as a central and unique object of study, involving all types and, also, their different phases of manifestation, from prevention to the recovery of areas where they have manifested themselves, and also their stakeholders, from the characters to the infrastructures, contrary to what happens to other sciences that consider the risks more as manifestations, which are studied only in aspects that relate to their specialty. Moreover, this approach about the study of physical and human hazards seeks to be global and systemic, that is, it tries to take into account all the elements that explain different types of risk, from its origin: natural, anthropic or mixed, to the consequences caused by its manifestation, both in people, in their goods and possessions. Finally, we consider that education is the most appropriate way to solve the problems resulting from the manifestation of risks, so that the technical-scientific knowledge, materialized in several knowledge, is fundamental for a properly sustained education. For all these reasons, the publication of this book aims to contribute to the knowledge about the study of physical and human hazards and, through it, to a better education and a greater resilience of the population to the manifestations of risk and, therefore, contribute to the reduction of the risk.

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Risks --- Crises --- Society --- Dangers --- Territories --- Catastrophes


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OECD review of risk management policies Morocco
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ISBN: 9264276483 9264276386 Year: 2017 Publisher: Paris : OECD,

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"This study analyses initiatives undertaken in Morocco to support the management of critical risks. It covers steps taken by central government and local authorities, research centres, the private sector, and civil society. It focuses particularly on questions relating to the governance of risks, co-ordination, and the engagement of key stakeholders. The analysis looks at the entire risk management cycle, including risk assessment, prevention and mitigation, emergency response and management, recovery and reconstruction. It also identifies the challenges that Morocco still needs address in order to improve the resilience of its economy and society to critical risks"--Page 4 of cover.

Complex emergencies
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ISBN: 9780745640204 9780745640198 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge ; Malden Polity

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Catástrofes Naturais. Uma abordagem global
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ISBN: 9892619366 9892619358 Year: 2020 Publisher: Coimbra University Press

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This publication, entitled “Natural Disasters. A Global Approach” brings together a set of texts devoted specifically to disasters that have as their origin phenomena of nature, full manifestation of the so-called natural hazards. Throughout each of these chapters, we have sought to clarify the conceptual and methodological aspects inherent in each of the risks under analysis, their systematization or typification, effects and consequences, particularly for the Human Being, and examples of their manifestation. Although with distinct characteristics and influenced by different factors, the extent of natural disasters is evident, affecting the generality of human societies and conditioning their activity in almost all parts of the earth´s surface. It is our hope that this work will fulfill its intended purpose and become a valuable working tool and a vehicle for disseminating information and raising awareness of natural disasters.


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Irradiated Cities
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ISBN: 1685711510 1685711502 Year: 2023 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Punctum books,

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中国地质灾害与防治学报/#/中國地質災害與防治學報 [[Chung Kuo Ti Chih Tsai Hai Yu Fang Chih Hsueh Pao]]
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Year: 1990 Publisher: Beijing Shi Zhongguo di zhi huan jing jian ce yuan "Zhongguo di zhi zai hai yu fang zhi xue bao" bian ji bu

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Health emergency and disaster nursing.
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ISSN: 21882061 21882053 Year: 2014 Publisher: Kochi, Japan : Disaster Nursing Global Leader Degree Program,

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