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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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This study combines high-resolution, geo-spatial data and household data from the Vietnam Living Standard Measurement … Surveys in 2010, 2012, and 2014 to investigate the relationship between environmental risks and poverty. Using recently … developed data on air pollution, tree cover loss, land degradation, slope, rainfall and temperature variability, and flood and …
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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 Vietnam shows that the main determinant of the eradication of extreme poverty by 2030 is the income of unskilled … significant impact on poverty in Vietnam in about a quarter of the scenarios, with 400,000 to more than a million people living in …The impacts of climate change on poverty depend on the magnitude of climate change, but also on demographic and …
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Addressing the poverty and distributional impacts of carbon pricing reforms is critical for the success of ambitious … which carbon pricing can potentially affect poverty and inequality. It finds that the channels differ in important ways …
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Adaptation to climate change includes addressing sea level rise and increased storm surges in many coastal areas. Mangroves can substantially reduce the vulnerability of the adjacent coastal land from inundation and erosion. However, climate change poses a large threat to mangroves. This paper...
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