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(Conspress, Bucharest, Rumenia, 2022-09-04)In June 2000, two earthquakes of ~Mw6.5 struck in South Iceland, and in May 2008 the same region was hit again further west, with Mw6.3 event. Almost 5000 residential buildings were affected in each of these two seismic events. To fulfil insurance ... -
(Elsevier BV, 2017-10)This paper documents the analysis of the circumstances surrounding fatalities due to flooding in Australia between 1900 and 2015. This longitudinal investigation is important to understand changing trends in social vulnerability and to inform efficient ...
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(Springer Nature, 2018-04)Icelandic fish stocks underwent privatisation in 1990, when existing fishing quotas were made fully transferable. The country’s system of individual transferable quotas has since been held up as a paragon of virtue for sustainable fisheries. This might ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2018-09-28)In recent years, the concept of vulnerability has gained momentum both in feminist philosophy and as an interdisciplinary concept. The philosopher Judith Butler is well known for exposing how hidden ontological assumptions permeate social institutions ...
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