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Drought and Flood Risk, Impacts and Adaptation Options for Resilience in Rural Communities of Uganda
Lwasa, Shuaib - In: International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR) 9 (2018) 1, pp. 36-50
analyzes vulnerability and impacts of climate change from droughts and floods in a rural community with varied geographies … central part of the semi-arid zone, droughts and floods impacts on livelihoods, people and assets are eroding the asset … resource dependent community like many others, evidence strongly suggests increasing climate risks of droughts and floods the …
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An Integrated Method for Assessing the Text Content Quality of Volunteered Geographic Information in Disaster Management
Rajabifard, Abbas; Kalantari, Mohsen; Hung, Kuo-Chih - In: International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis … 9 (2017) 2, pp. 1-17
Volunteered geographic information (VGI) has the potential to provide much-needed information for emergency management stakeholders. However, stakeholders often lack scalability to identify useful and high-quality text content from the often-overwhelming amount of information. To solve this...
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Hedging flood losses using cat bonds
Têtu, Alexandre; Lai, Van Son; Soumaré, Issouf; … - In: Asia-Pacific journal of risk and insurance : APJRI 9 (2015) 2, pp. 149-184
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Enabling incremental adaptation in disadvantaged communities : polycentric governance with a focus on non-financial capital
Moftakhari, Hamed; Shao, Wanyun; Moradkhani, Hamid; … - In: Climate policy 21 (2021) 3, pp. 396-405
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Trends in water-related technological innovation : insights from patent data
Leflaive, Xavier; Krieble, Ben; Smythe, Harry - 2020
Innovation has a role to play to mitigate water-related risks and to support the provision of water services on which our well-being and sustainable development depend. Water-related innovation originate in a wide range of countries, with different levels of ambition. They disseminate at...
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Improving understanding of flood risk : the effects of lowering the cost of accessing flood risk information
Doupe, Patrick; Dobes, Leo; Jotzo, Frank - In: Economics of disasters and climate change 3 (2019) 2, pp. 101-117
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Municipal financing costs following disasters
Bourdeau-Brien, Michael; Kryzanowski, Lawrence - In: Global finance journal 40 (2019), pp. 48-64
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What drives households to buy flood insurance? New evidence from Georgia
Atreya, Ajita; Ferreira, Susana; Michel-Kerjan, Erwann - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 117 (2015), pp. 153-161
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Dredging versus hedging : comparing hard infrastructure to ecosystem-based adaptation to flooding
Daigneault, Adam J.; Brown, Philip H.; Gawith, D. - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 122 (2016), pp. 25-35
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Natural disasters and human mobility
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: International review of environmental and resource economics 10 (2016) 1, pp. 37-56
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