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century. This paper seeks to quantify how a 1-meter sea-level rise that would affect coastal wetlands in 76 developing … countries and territories, taking into account how much of wetlands would be submerged and how likely the wetlands would move … Lakes and Wetlands Database coastal wetlands, and 61 percent of brackish/saline wetlands are at risk. A large percentage of …
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a new, regionwide panel data set that measures local economic activity using nightlights, potential hurricane damages … using a detailed hurricane windstorm model, and mangrove protection by mapping the width of mangrove forests on the path to …
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-won economic, social, and environmental gains due to the impacts of disasters. This study uses monthly nightlight composites in …
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This paper investigates the causal consequences of Tropical Storm Agatha (2010) -- the strongest tropical storm everto strike Guatemala since rainfall records have been kept -- on household welfare. The analysis reveals substantial negative effects, particularly among urban households. Per...
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in a general analytical framework, with an illustration on hurricane flood risks in New Orleans. It concludes that, where …
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historic hurricane data to measure the impacts at each location given the storm's strength. The minimum barometric pressure of …This paper quantifies hurricane damage caused by climate change across the US. A damage function is estimated from … each storm turns out to be a better indicator of damages than the traditional measure of maximum wind speed. A hurricane …
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This paper constructs an integrated assessment model of tropical cyclones in order to quantify the impact that climate change may have on tropical cyclone damages in countries around the world. The paper relies on a tropical cyclone generator in each ocean and several climate models to predict...
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and evacuation system, and more than 2,400 emergency shelters to protect coastal inhabitants from tidal waves and storm …
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location, especially after 1960. Impacts also have varied considerably within and across zones over time, with the highest … impacts will provide robust controls for comparative research on household and community adaptation to cyclones in the study …
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