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Inventarizace dřevin v zámeckém parku v Chocni
Kalousová, Iva
The Bachelor thesis, the topic of which is "Wood Stocktaking in the Chocen's Chateua Park" is dealing with mapping of the wood composition since the time when the park has been founded till now. With the help of literary sources it provides a comprehensive overview of the Castle Park history; it also compares the state of the planting composition after natural disasters strike (flood, storm). The wood inventory is a part of the thesis, with emphasis on significant and old specimens. Based on this selection, it was necessary to perform the presentation with a map, containing photographs of the chosen specimens and capturing individual phenological phases of their growth.
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Natural Catastrophes and Financial Development
Mikulíková, Pavla ; Horváth, Roman (advisor) ; Jakubík, Petr (referee)
Master's thesis - Natural Catastrophes and Financial Development Pavla Mikul'ıkov'a Academic year 2022/2023 Natural disasters affect lives of many people every year. Using a panel dataset of 214 countries from 1970 to 2021, this thesis analyses the impact of disasters on financial development, namely on depth, efficiency, access, and sta- bility, using fixed effects and system GMM estimators. The main findings imply that depth and stability are negatively affected by disasters, and the impact is more pronounced for lower-income countries. On the other hand, efficiency and access provide no consistent results. There is no type of disasters, e.g., biologi- cal or geophysical, that would have a significant impact on all types of financial development. The effect probably varies due to the different characteristics of disaster types. 1
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Theology of earthquakes
ŠTĚPANČÍKOVÁ, Petra
The master thesis deals with importance and meaning of earthquakes as a natural process as well as natural disasters in areas where earthquakes cause heavy damage to lives or properties. The goal of the thesis is to answer the question whether God reveals himself and his divine actions in earthquakes provided that he discloses himself in all his creation in the natural world. A complete list of references on earthquakes in Bible has been compiled and it shows that earthquakes mostly precede or accompany very important events, theophany, and eschatological happening, which always point to God´s glory, power and magnificence. The thesis summarizes historical evolution of theodicy related to earthquakes as natural disasters. There is a paradigm shift from God´s responsibility to responsibility of humankind, in relation to structural sins of the rich against the poor who most suffer during the natural disasters. The thesis offers also synthesizing view on earthquakes as natural process, especially how they reflect God´s invisible characteristics, such as God´s power, glory, magnificence, freedom, wisdom, eternal activity, order, harmony, balance, and beauty.
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Inventarizace dřevin v zámeckém parku v Chocni
Kalousová, Iva
The Bachelor thesis, the topic of which is "Wood Stocktaking in the Chocen's Chateua Park" is dealing with mapping of the wood composition since the time when the park has been founded till now. With the help of literary sources it provides a comprehensive overview of the Castle Park history; it also compares the state of the planting composition after natural disasters strike (flood, storm). The wood inventory is a part of the thesis, with emphasis on significant and old specimens. Based on this selection, it was necessary to perform the presentation with a map, containing photographs of the chosen specimens and capturing individual phenological phases of their growth.
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The impacts of natural disasters on japanese economy
Platlová, Drahomíra ; Stuchlíková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Zapletal, Petr (referee)
Japan ranks among the most developed countries in the world, nevertheless it neither can prevent frequent natural disasters nor their consequences. Although the government strives to minimise damage caused, those tragic events influence functioning of the state and its economic performance. The aim of the Bachelor thesis is to find out, to what extent the natural disasters influence Japan and analyse the impacts, which they could have on the economy. The first Chapter encompasses general information, which shows the basics of natural disasters. The second Chapter focuses on Japan, in particular on geographic conditions of the country, alert systems and deals also with comparison of two major earthquakes Kobe and Tohoku.
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Climate change and its effect on insurance industry
Landa, Josef ; Daňhel, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Kiovský, Tomáš (referee)
Climate change is an undisputable fact. However it has not been found out yet with certainty what role does the human activity play and how is climate change influenced by nature cycles. A major role play greenhouse gases trapped in the atmosphere. These gases are linked to various issues, one of them being the global warming. In order to reduce the amount of emitted greenhouse gases, various conferences on climate change took place. During meetings participants have been trying to find a solution for gradual reducing level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Climate change will probably result in more severe natural catastrophes, according to renowned scientists. Most probably there will be a rising occurrence of tropical cyclones, severe droughts or a change in rain precipitation throughout the world. Future predictions are not clear yet and there is still no common agreement among scientists about how the future developments will be. However there is a clear increasing trend in the amount of insured losses, economic losses and the number of catastrophic events, which influences insurance industry. This trend could be caused by more elements, including increasing insurance penetration, increasing concentration of economic values or increasing migration into hazard zones. Climate change can also be partly to blame for the negative developments of insured losses and therefore insurance industry should play a major role in an effort to assess possible future risks in order to decrease its vulnerability to future risk developments. Indemnity rise makes insurance companies and the whole industry more vulnerable to insolvency and thus new ways to diversify risks are being searched for. Cooperation between public and private sector is one of the solutions which help to make almost uninsurable risks insurable. However, there are still risks that are almost unbearable by cooperation of these two sectors. Alternative risk transfer to capital market is one of solutions for mitigating the possibility of huge future losses. In the process of an alternative risk transfer, investors are participating in catastrophe risk development through e.g. catastrophe bonds. Bonds give investors an opportunity to further diversify their portfolio and receive an attractive yield in return to an exposure to a risk of a big catastrophe loss which could result in installment cut, installment annulment or even principal annulment depending on the severity of the catastrophe. Through these risk transfer methods catastrophe losses of huge extents can be spread to more parties, helping to decrease the risk of default of parties and thus increasing the probability of liabilities settlement.
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Natural disasters and tools of coverage the damage caused by them on private property
Datková, Veronika ; Ducháčková, Eva (advisor) ; Daňhel, Jaroslav (referee)
This thesis discusses the occurrence and evolution of natural disasters in the world and in the Czech republic. More detail it deals with floods in the Czech republic, the causes of their formation, climate changes and especially tools of coverage the damage caused by them on property of individuals. In addition to prevention, commercial insurance, public and private sources are also considered the instruments of capital market. The interest is focused on barriers of commercial insurance that reduce the level of insurance protection. Finally, this work deals also with storms in the Czech republic.
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Solutions to damages of floods within the frame of insurance products in the Czech insurance market
Pospíšilová, Eliška ; Ducháčková, Eva (advisor) ; Daňhel, Jaroslav (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the analysis of floods which hit the Czech Republic during a few last years, and then it describes the commercial insurance which covers the consequences of damages from natural catastrophes. At first, there is the general development of natural disasters all over the world. Next parts include theoretical aspects of floods and functions of flood control. Then, there are mentioned main causes and consequences of floods which hit the Czech Republic from 1997 to 2010. Finally, commercial insurance is mentioned as the most important instrument which help people cover the damages caused by natural catastrophes, mainly floods.
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