Essays about: "post disaster"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 69 essays containing the words post disaster.

  1. 21. Dispossessed: Exploring the Factors That Enable Post-Disaster Land Grabs

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Taylor McCammon Lightman; [2020]
    Keywords : Land Grab; Land Tenure; Land Tenure Security; Gender; Globalization; Neoliberalism; Dispossession; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The objective of this thesis is to better understand what factors produce an enabling environment for land grabs after a disaster. Looking at eight selected case studies, this research tests the role of land tenure security, private capital investment and global financial institutions, and gender. READ MORE

  3. 22. Giving, receiving and reciprocating : A qualitative reanalysis of articles studying disaster aid through gift exchange 

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Malin Hedenskog; [2020]
    Keywords : Mauss; gift exchange; disaster aid; reanalysis;

    Abstract : The impact of international aid is debated in the scholarly literature. One of the theoretical frameworks used to study aid is developed in the Gift [1925] by Marcel Mauss. However, overall there is a lack of knowledge concerning the understanding of Mauss, and how it can be connected to the distribution of aid. READ MORE

  4. 23. Human Factors in Deepwater Drilling - A New Approach to Safety and Operational Excellence

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : José Carlos Silveira Bruno; [2020]
    Keywords : Deepwater; Drilling; Human Factors; Oil Gas; Performance; Safety; FLMU06; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : Deepwater drilling operates high hazardous and complex systems. Technological and operational complexities, harsh environmental conditions, geological uncertainties, and high-pressure flammable fluids are some of the critical factors that pose clear threats towards safe operations and may result in high consequence events, as the Macondo blowout in 2010. READ MORE

  5. 24. Resilience from within or without? : An ethnographic study of resilience mechanisms in southern Colombia

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Amanda Amigues; [2019]
    Keywords : Resilience; recovery processes; peacebuilding; post-conflict; post-disaster reconstruction; Colombia;

    Abstract : The emergence of resilience in the peacebuilding field shows an important change of paradigm and turn to the local context. So far few ethnographic research has been done to understand how resilience works locally and what are the mechanisms helping individuals to cope and recover from a crisis. READ MORE

  6. 25. The Swedish Value Premium and Disasters: The Missing Piece of the Puzzle?

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Author : Majed Habash; David Öhlund; [2019]
    Keywords : The Value Premium; Disasters; Time-varying Risk;

    Abstract : This paper examines the value premium puzzle in Sweden for the period 2002 - 2016 and attempts to explain the puzzle by accounting for time-varying risk exposure with the inclusion of a proxy for financial disasters risk. The value premium is one of the most persistent financial anomalies and the reasons for its existence have been a hot topic for debate over the past years, with more recent research suggesting that it is a form of compensation for higher exposure to harsh economic downturns, or disasters. READ MORE