Wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity. We study the impact of exposure to wildfires on air pollutants and … which fires occur, we estimate causal impacts of exposure to wildfires. We find considerable impacts. Exposure to a large … in exposure to large wildfires is estimated to increase rates of respiratory hospitalizations by 0.75%, while the effect …

basins, where water deficit during drought events is partially covered by illegal abstractions, mostly from aquifers, which …-based drought insurance systems have the potential to introduce the necessary incentives to reduce overexploitation during drought … events and remove the high costs of the drought indemnity paid by the government. This paper develops a methodology to obtain …

The Drought Management Plans (DMPs) are a regulatory instrument that establishes priorities among the different water …

the 1980s, all the six droughts faced by India were in El Niño years but not all El Niño years led to drought situations …

In this paper, we show that drought has a positive effect on the incidence of civil war over the 1945-2005 period in … Sub-Saharan Africa. We use the Palmer Drought Severity Index which is a richer measurement of drought than the measures … than 42% from a “normal” climate to an “extremely drought” climate. Surprisingly, only 2.5% of this effect is channeled …

drought data for the last 40 years. We find evidence of a higher frequency of power plants outages as a consequence of … capacity-adjusted drought index. The results are used to assess the monetary loss of power plant outages due to heatwaves and …