His analysis, which was done for the new edition of his book All that is Solid: How the Great Housing Disaster defines our Times and What We Can Do About It, showed other affordability crunch points outside the capital.
In the future, similar adjustments will be made for major disasters — defined as causing damage of at least 0.1percentt of gross domestic product, or around $15 billion now.
A soft risk map of natural disaster is aimed at the visualization of risk levels of natural disasters defined by the fuzzy probabilities.
Participants had responded to both acute and chronic disasters, defined as whether the disaster had happened less or more than 3 months prior to deployment.
Figure 1 shows the number of fatalities in each of the coal mine explosion disasters (defined as accident with five or more fatalities) and the cumulative mine explosion fatalities since 1900.
Surely to fixate on disaster defines a people through destruction rather than achievement: as if the holocaust, Jewish or Armenian, becomes a new quasi religion.
It's a classic case of "disaster capitalism", defined by Klein in the Shock Doctrine as "orchestrated raids on the public sphere in the wake of catastrophic events, combined with the treatment of disasters as exciting market opportunities".
It was this mysterious ambiguity, this delay of disaster that defined money for me.
Her books include Voices of Chernobyl, a collection of oral interviews with survivors of the 1986 nuclear disaster that defined the fate of the former Soviet Union.
The most vulnerable groups in disaster were defined as women, children, the elderly and disabled persons.
