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floods, by accounting for heterogeneous levels of resilience and vulnerability to natural disasters. Our findings, based on a … expenditure and revenues from transfer, which also depend on the degree of resilience and vulnerability. Through our analysis we … account for multiple aspects of risk so we can support policy decisions related to both ex-ante and ex-post disaster …
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This paper proposes an application of the analytical path assembled within my PhD research on Disaster Risk Creation … (DRC) in humanitarian contexts, to Flood Risk Management (FRM) planning in Italy. The investigation concerns some key … challenges, for spatial planning and disaster risk management, in understanding, evaluating, and addressing Disaster Risk (DR …
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The climate change impacts on sea level rise and coastal disasters, and the possible adaptation responses have been studied using very different approaches, such as very detailed site-specific engineering studies and global macroeconomic assessments of costal zones vulnerability. This paper...
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model to the 2000 Po river flood. To account for the uncertainty in the induced effects on regional economies, we explored … losses, and ii) the model is able to capture both positive and negative economic effects of a disaster in different areas of …
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This study explores people's risk attitudes after having suffered large real-world losses following a natural disaster …
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Flood damage assessments are often based on Stage-Damage Curve (SDC) models that estimate economic damage as a function … of flood characteristics, typically flood depths, and land use. SDCs are developed through site-specific analysis but … developed elsewhere, even if empirical damage reports are collected after every major flood event. In this paper we tested …
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Flood insurance differs widely in scope and form across Europe. Against the backdrop of rising flood losses a debate … paper we investigate if and how current EU policies influence flood insurance. While the question of supply and demand is at … reflect on the national policy level, by illustrating two conflicting cases of flood insurance: the United Kingdom (UK), where …
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Greenhouse gas policies confront the trade-off between the costs of reducing emissions and the benefits of avoided climate change. The risk of uncertain and potentially irreversible catastrophes is an important issue related to the latter, and one that has not yet been well incorporated into...
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This study examines the relationship between weather emergencies and labor market outcomes in Mexico from 2016 to 2020. Using panel data and a two-way fixed effects estimation, the analysis focuses on storms, floods, wildfires, and landslides. The results show that storms can have significant...
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