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Improving flood damage assessment models in Italy

Amadio, Mattia; Myšiak, Jaroslav; Carrera, Lorenzo; … - 2015

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 rarely adjusted to economic circumstances in areas to...

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The economics of natural disasters : a survey

Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Noy, Ilan - 2009

Catastrophes caused by natural disasters are by no means new, yet the evolving understanding of their relevance to economic development and growth is still in its infancy. In order to facilitate further necessary research on this topic, this paper summarizes the state of the economic literature...

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Financing India's disaster risk resilience strategy

Ray, Saon; Jain, Samridhi; Thakur, Vasundhara - 2021

In this paper, we try to cover a whole range of polices and schemes that have been undertaken in Indiato finance disaster risk resilience (DRR). This paper tries to emphasise the importance of DRR in dealing with natural catastrophesby integrating DRR and climate change adaptation strategies for...

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Degrees of vulnerability to poverty : a low-income dynamics approach for Chile

Prieto, Joaquin - 2023

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Catastrophic risk, precautionary abatement, and adaptation transfers

Bosello, Francesco; De Cian, Enrica; Ferranna, Licia - 2014

This paper contributes to the normative literature on mitigation and adaptation by framing the question of their optimal policy balance in the context of catastrophic climate risk. The analysis uses the WITCH integrated assessment model with a module that models the endogenous risk of...

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Modeling tropical cyclone risk while accounting for climate change and natural infrastructure in the Caribbean

Reguero, Borja G.; Menéndez Fernández, Pelayo; … - 2023

This chapter describes tools and a methodology to model wind and flood risks from tropical storms under present and future climate accounting for natural infrastructure. Wind forcing provide a crucial link to hydrodynamic models that can be used in risk assessments to estimate extent of and...

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Quantifying catastrophic and climate impacted hazards based on local expert opinions

Keighley, Tim; Longden, Thomas; Mathew, Supriya; … - 2014

The analysis of catastrophic and climate impacted hazards is a challenging but important exercise, as the occurrence of such events is usually associated with high damage and uncertainty. Often, at the local level, there is a lack of information on rare extreme events, such that available data...

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Insurance supervision under climate change : a pioneers detection method

Vansteenberghe, Eric - 2023

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Non-contributory pensions

Galiani, Sebastián; Gertler, Paul J.; Bando Grana, … - 2014

poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …

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Another brick on the wall : on the effects of non-contributory pensions on material and subjective well being

Bando Grana, Rosangela; Galiani, Sebastián; Gertler, … - 2021

living in poverty. Households with a beneficiary increased their level of consumption by 44 percent. The program improved … (2020) and Galiani, Gertler and Bando (2016) in their studies on the non-contributory pension schemes in Peru and Mexico … Peru and Mexico and add to the construction of external validity. …

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