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hazard maps and spatial socioeconomic data. The paper also examines flood exposure and poverty at the local level within Ho …, while the main strategy in Vietnam today to manage flood risk is to reduce exposure, the increase in exposure estimated in …With 70 percent of its population living in coastal areas and low-lying deltas, Vietnam is exposed to many natural …
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-level socioeconomic resilience. Because floods disproportionally affect poor people, each $1 of global flood asset loss is equivalent to a … reduce flood losses in each country. It shows that considering asset losses is insufficient to assess disaster risk …
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-day and future flood and drought hazard maps. The paper defines and calculates a ?poverty exposure bias? and finds support …People living in poverty are particularly vulnerable to shocks, including those caused by natural disasters such as … households, suggesting that different mechanisms?such as land scarcity?are more important drivers in urban areas. The poverty …
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working-age adults (particularly males), dependency ratios, and poverty incidence than their counterparts in non … outside earnings. Those left behind face a far greater likelihood of extreme poverty than their counterparts in less …
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in urban poverty. -- living wage ; wages ; employment ; poverty …
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Ho Chi Minh City faces significant and growing flood risk. Recent risk reduction efforts may be insufficient as climate … demonstrates how robust decision making can help Ho Chi Minh City develop integrated flood risk management strategies in the face … flood risk management in Ho Chi Minh City's Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe canal catchment area. It found that the soon …
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coasts. We document nine stylized facts, including a sizeable rise in the share of coastal housing built on flood-prone land …
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-2017, we estimate the price effects of three flood risk signals: 1) the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act, which …
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