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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 …
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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 …
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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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Investment decision making is already difficult for any diverse group of actors with different priorities and views. But the presence of deep uncertainties linked to climate change and other future conditions further challenges decision making by questioning the robustness of all purportedly...
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To what degree can vulnerability to extreme weather events be mitigated by access to a rural livelihoods program, particularly with regard to the impacts on women? This paper addresses this question through a natural experiment arising from two independent but overlapping sources of variation:...
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This paper investigates the effects of multiple weather shocks on household welfare in Mozambique, as well as some of the coping responses and price mechanisms at play. The analysis employs a triple-difference strategy that exploits variation in the shocks across space, time, and cropping...
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There is a large empirical literature analyzing' catastrophic' medical expenses. The' basic' approach defines expenses as catastrophic if they exceed a prespecified percentage of total consumption or income; the approach, in effect, tells us whether expenses cause a large percentage reduction in...
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This paper evaluates whether mangroves can mitigate the impact of hurricanes on economic activity. The paper assembles a new, regionwide panel data set that measures local economic activity using nightlights, potential hurricane damages using a detailed hurricane windstorm model, and mangrove...
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The welfare impact of a natural disaster depends on its effect on consumption, not only on the direct asset losses and … human losses that are usually estimated and reported after disasters. This paper proposes a framework to assess disaster … after a disaster destroys part of the capital stock are better estimated by using the average?not the marginal …
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. Although the potential utility of mangroves in disaster risk reduction is increasingly recognized by coastal managers …
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