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Weather Index Insurance and Shock Coping : Evidence from Mexico's CADENA Program
de Janvry, Alain - 2016
Weather risk and incomplete insurance markets are significant contributors to poverty for rural households in developing countries. Weather index insurance has emerged as a possible tool for overcoming these challenges. This paper provides evidence on the impact of weather index insurance from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245842
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Impact of drought on poverty in Somalia
Pape, Utz Johann; Wollburg, Philip - 2019
Understanding the magnitude and importance of income shocks, such as drought or conflict, in causing and perpetuating poverty is critical to designing policies aimed at building resilience and contributing toward the goal of ending poverty. This paper uses micro-data from two waves of the Somali...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002717
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Improving Climate Resilience of Federal Road Network in Brazil
World Bank Group - 2019
objective of the study is to strengthen capacity of geohazard disaster resilience of federal highway infrastructure in Brazil … through reviewing disaster risk management (DRM) capacity for federal road infrastructure and case studies of applying … innovative methodologies for assessing disaster risk and evaluating economic benefits of resilience countermeasures. Although …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646328
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Using Social Work Interventions to Address Climate and Disaster Risks in Latin America and the Caribbean
Vivanco M., Lucia - 2020
typically used in Social Work, such as family support, case management, and other interventions, in disaster contexts in order …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647315
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Building Resilience in Turkey : Quantifying Climate and Disaster Risks to Critical Infrastructure, Lifelines and Agriculture
World Bank Group - 2019
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Analyzing flooding impacts on rural access to hospitals and other critical services in rural Cambodia : using geo-spatial information and network analysis
Alegre, Xavier Espinet; Stanton-Geddes, Zuzana; Aliyev, … - 2020
Transport connectivity in Cambodia is challenged by its geography and exposure to recurrent flooding. Flood events create severe disruptions in segments of the transport network that undermine access to health, education, and work opportunities as well as create barriers to economic growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241278
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Improving the Resilience of Peru's Road Network to Climate Events
Rozenberg, Julie - 2017
This paper proposes a methodology to prioritize interventions in Peru's road network. A network model is built, linking the country's economic and population centers through indicative corridors, which are defined as the least-cost routes to connect origins to destinations. The network's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246233
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Co-Benefits of Disaster Risk Management
Vorhies, Francis - 2016
Many ex ante measures taken to reduce disaster risk can deliver co-benefits that are not dependent on disasters … to the main objective of disaster risk management of avoiding disaster losses, but identifying and measuring additional … co-benefits can enhance the attractiveness of disaster risk management investments. Co-benefits are often economic, such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246258
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Investing in Disaster Risk Management in an Uncertain Climate
McDermott, Thomas K.J. - 2016
development prospects of affected regions. As such, climate change reinforces the development case for investment in disaster risk … complicates disaster risk management investment decisions, the analysis presented here shows that these considerations are only … for disaster risk management investment decisions. Accounting for climate uncertainty is likely to shift the optimal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246260
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Mangroves as Protection from Storm Surges in a Changing Climate
Blankespoor, Brian - 2016
Adaptation to climate change includes addressing sea level rise and increased storm surges in many coastal areas. Mangroves can substantially reduce the vulnerability of the adjacent coastal land from inundation and erosion. However, climate change poses a large threat to mangroves. This paper...
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