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This paper conducts an assessment of the global costs for expanding, upgrading, and improving irrigation infrastructure … partial equilibrium model of the global agricultural and forestry sectors. It examines the impacts of irrigation expansion on … (goal 6). It finds that irrigation support policies improve food security globally and can reduce the burden on land by …
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exposure to a two-and-a-half-minute-long virtual reality experience featuring various urban design and social diversity …
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proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as its …
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Dar es Salaam is frequently affected by severe flooding causing destruction and impeding daily life of its 4.5 million inhabitants. The focus of this paper is on the role of poverty in the impact of floods on households, focusing on both direct (damage to or loss of assets or property) and...
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proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as the …, the paper applies the socioeconomic resilience framework to a cost-benefit analysis of prospective adaptive social …
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Policy makers are increasingly interested in strategies to promote resilience and mitigate the effects of future … protection against shocks, but their role in fostering resilience has been less studied. This paper assesses whether the … drought shocks. It analyzes mechanisms through which cash transfers contribute to resilience, such as savings facilitation …
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