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Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) nightlights are used to model damage caused by earthquakes, floods, and typhoons in five Southeast Asian countries (Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam). The data are used to examine the extent to which for each type of...
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affected households lose?"), and socioeconomic resilience ("What was their ability to cope and recover?"). This study explores …, building resilience is not only about increasing income. It also requires providing the population with coping and recovery … mechanisms such as financial instruments. A flood management program needs to be designed to target low-resilience households …
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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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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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