, through their impact on the intensity and frequency of floods. Population exposure affects the number of deaths both directly … smaller floods. In developing countries it also reduces the count of floods. …

We investigate the impact of large floods on the risk of civil conflict in a sample of 125 countries between 1985 and … 2009. We control for endogeneity of floods and the potential spatial and temporal dependency of civil conflict. We find … that floods increase the probability of conflict incidence through a negative impact on short-run GDP growth. …