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Thesis (M.S.)--Mississippi State University. Department of Geosciences. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2007. / "Graduate Program in Planning and Public Policy." Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-250).

CHDS State/Local / The problem confronting The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Defense (DoD), and Americaâ s private sector is how to collectively protect the nationâ s critical infrastructure. The challenge for the DHS is in motivating partnerships across the public, private, and DoD domains, each with different organizational and cultural objectives governed under a federalist system. The relevance of this problem lies in the vulnerability of Americaâ s economic and military foundations to terrorist attacks or a catastrophic natural disaster. Research conducted of the regulated energy and water industries indicates federal standards can be effectively established across the public-private domains. The establishment of federal tax and insurance incentives, limiting corporate liability, and developing industry standards may motivate increased security and circumvent excessive federal mandates. The conduct of partnering is scrutinized via personal interviews to determine if the recommendation to build security partnerships with federal guidance is sufficient to secure critical infrastructure. The implementation of a dual-purpose strategy is recommended to further enhance the efficiency of security partnerships. This thesis suggests the DHS must develop an innovative CIP policy and utilize the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) as the vehicle to integrate and synchronize the actions of all security partners. / Major, Alaskan Command (ALCOM)

Thesis advisor: S Anukriti / Thesis advisor: Robert Murphy / It is widely believed that natural disasters increase human trafficking from the affected region or country; however, credible analyses of the causal relationship are lacking. This paper estimates the causal effect of natural disaster occurrence on economic factors and the probability of human trafficking. I find that there is a significant, positive effect of disasters—as measured by an indicator for occurrence as well as disaster intensity—on human trafficking. Moreover, disasters negatively impact economic outcomes, suggesting a potential mechanism through which disasters indirectly affect trafficking. These findings are policy-relevant for anti-human trafficking and disaster relief organizations as they provide empirical evidence for a previously hypothesized relationship and may help prioritize the underemphasized rise in trafficking during times of inevitable chaos. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2016. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Arts and Sciences Honors Program. / Discipline: Economics.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:37:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Viviane Cristina Torlai.pdf: 989422 bytes, checksum: c48a7831a806b249184c91debe035aa8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-10-22 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Natural disasters cause disruption in the lives of those involved, leaving the suddenly bereaved, there are both material and psychological losses to the population. Affect patterns of community and their network of psychosocial support, placing at risk the ability of individual and collective coping. This study aimed to examine the experience of mourning for people who have suffered losses from disasters, specifically floods in the city of Blumenau, SC, in December 2008. Was held in the city of Blumenau, in Santa Catarina, housing the participants. Five people participated in this survey, over 21 years, who attended the calamity of 2008 and currently reside in temporary housing or receive rental income and presenting award interdiction of residence, making it impossible to return to her family. A semistructured interview was conducted with minimal pre-structuring from a semi-structured. Through content analysis, the information was discussed with the mourning process characterized by the experience of traumatic events. In the narrative of the participants were able to identify the impact on the disaster and the fall in world presumed because the unpredictability of life, forecasts of future control of events and vulnerability, leading to loss of sense of security and protection. The disaster led to a succession of losses, since the material loss to the loss of the psychological identity of individuals and the community. It was observed that mourning for disasters is a continuous process of development of losses that requires the mourner's internal and external resources to cope with the traumatic situation. The coping resources found to support the traumas and losses was social support, faith and religion. Complete this study is to pave the way for new thoughts and questions about the losses resulting from disaster, trying to broaden the look at the quality of care for survivors, developing activities that promote the development of the mourning process by disasters / Os desastres naturais provocam uma ruptura na vida das pessoas envolvidas, deixando-as subitamente enlutadas; há perdas tanto materiais quanto psíquicas para a população. Eles afetam padrões da comunidade e suas redes de apoio psicossocial, colocando em risco a capacidade de enfrentamento individual e coletivo. Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo analisar a vivência do luto de pessoas que passaram por perdas decorrentes de desastres, especificamente, as inundações na cidade de Blumenau, SC, em dezembro de 2008. Foi realizada no Município de Blumenau, em Santa Catarina, na moradia dos participantes. Participaram desta pesquisa cinco pessoas, maiores de 21 anos, que estiveram presentes na calamidade de 2008 e atualmente residem em moradia provisória ou recebem a renda aluguel e que apresentam laudo de interdição de residência, impossibilitando a família de retornar a ela. Foi realizada uma entrevista semidirigida com pré-estruturação mínima a partir de um roteiro semi-estruturado. Por meio da análise de conteúdo as informações foram discutidas e o processo de luto caracterizado a partir da vivência de evento traumático. Na narrativa dos participantes foi possível identificar o impacto sofrido pelo desastre, a quebra do mundo presumido, a imprevisibilidade da vida, as previsões de futuro, o controle dos acontecimentos e a vulnerabilidade, levando a perda do senso de segurança e proteção. O desastre provocou uma sucessão de perdas, desde as perdas materiais até a perda da identidade psicológica dos indivíduos e da comunidade. Observou-se que luto por desastres é um processo contínuo de elaboração de perdas que exige do enlutado recursos internos e externos para enfrentar a situação traumática. Os recursos de enfrentamento encontrados para suportar os traumas e perdas foi o apoio social, a fé e a religiosidade. Concluir este estudo é abrir caminho para novas reflexões e questionamentos acerca das perdas decorrentes dos desastres, buscando ampliar o olhar para a qualidade da assistência aos sobreviventes, desenvolvendo ações que propiciam a elaboração do processo de luto por desastres

This dissertation considers the interconnections between trade and transportation. Through various theoretical and empirical analyses, I provide novel evidence of the simultaneity of trade and transportation, of spillover effects across integrated transport markets, and of the influence of the international transport sector on trade policy effectiveness and natural disaster induced trade disruptions. In the first substantive chapter, I develop a model of international trade and transportation. Accounting for the joint-production present in the international container shipping industry, I illustrate that freight rates adjust to differences in the international demands for transport and can result in balanced or imbalanced equilibrium trade in the presence of asymmetric freight rates. The empirical results exhibit the simultaneity of international trade and transportation costs and show that the dependence of transport costs on the trade imbalance can lead to spillover effects across bilateral export and import markets. In the second substantive chapter, I investigate the effects of maritime trade policy on bilateral trade in the presence of trade imbalances. Using the previously developed model, I show that the trade elasticities with respect to carrier costs vary systematically across transport markets, bilateral trade imbalances and differentiated products. Empirically, I estimate the varying effects of an EU environmental policy on U.S.-EU trade and provide strong evidence in support of the theoretical results. In the third substantive chapter, I analyze the dynamics and spatial distribution of the trade effects induced by natural disasters. I develop a spatial gravity model of international trade and apply the model to monthly US port level trade data. Empirically, I estimate the dynamic evolution of trade effects caused by Hurricane Katrina differentiating trade disruptions at the local port level. The estimates point to the static and dynamic resilience of international trade. While ports closest to Katrina's epicenter experience significant short-run reductions that can be of permanent nature, international trade handled by nearby ports rises in response to this disaster, both in the short- and in the long-run. Overall, the analysis underlines the significance of local infrastructure networks to reduce the devastation inflicted by natural disasters. This dissertation includes previously unpublished co-authored material.

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The increasing impacts of climate change bear new challenges for the international community. The exacerbation of natural disasters in frequency and scope also confronts the national governments with newly arising problems. Disaster-induced displacement isan increasing phenomenon occurring the last years, which particularly vulnerable regions with a high exposure to national hazards are affected by. The present study addresses the inclusion of disaster IDPs in Disaster Risk Reduction frameworks on international and national level and argues that there is a need to recognize disaster-induced displacement as an increasing issue that should explicitly be addressed and included in policy frameworks on both levels. This was addressed through analyzing international and national key strategies in Disaster-Risk-Reduction. A case comparison of the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 and the yearly recurring floods in Mozambique since 2000 illustrates the implementation of these frameworks in regard to the issue of displacement. Although efforts have been made on both levels to improve the situation of IDPs in the response and recovery phase, it is argued that an inclusion through a community-based approach is needed in all the phases of disaster management to appropriately address the needs of disaster IDPs in the pre-and post-disaster phases.