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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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apply and downscale a global river routing (CaMa-Flood) model that quantifies the change degree of flood exposures from the … evidence that most climate models project increasing number of WWTP assets face climate-induced flood hazards in both the near … their flood protection standards. For earthquakes, we examine the exposure of WWTPs to earthquake hazards through both …
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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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-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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This paper presents a model to assess the socioeconomic resilience to natural disasters of an economy, defined as its capacity to mitigate the impact of disaster-related asset losses on welfare, and a tool to help decision makers identify the most promising policy options to reduce welfare...
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This paper quantifies the impact of inundation risk and salinization on the family structure and economic welfare of coastal households in Bangladesh. These households are already on the "front line" of climate change, so their adaptation presag
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understanding of households' vulnerability to shock-induced poverty is critical for disaster risk management and the design of … scalable social safety net programs. Standard poverty measures rely on static snapshots that are suitable for quantifying … structural poverty but not for assessing the vulnerability of non-poor households to fall below the poverty line when they …
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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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poverty is critical to designing policies aimed at building resilience and contributing toward the goal of ending poverty … that Somalia experienced in 2016/17 on poverty, hunger, and consumption. The analysis uses a regression framework to … took place before and during the drought, for identification. The drought is found to have a sizable effect on poverty …
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