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analyzes vulnerability and impacts of climate change from droughts and floods in a rural community with varied geographies … central part of the semi-arid zone, droughts and floods impacts on livelihoods, people and assets are eroding the asset … resource dependent community like many others, evidence strongly suggests increasing climate risks of droughts and floods the …
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Volunteered geographic information (VGI) has the potential to provide much-needed information for emergency management stakeholders. However, stakeholders often lack scalability to identify useful and high-quality text content from the often-overwhelming amount of information. To solve this...
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This paper reviews the effect of environmental disasters on migration. Although there is an increase of environmental disasters and migration over the past years, the relationship is complex. While some authors find that environmental disasters increase migration, others show that they have only...
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This study quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed the impacts of natural disasters, particularly typhoons, floods … that can be undertaken. The study found that: a) typhoons, floods, and droughts have an insignificant impact on … with the impacts of typhoons; and d) the different impacts of typhoons, floods, and droughts on the natural resources and …
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disasters.Furthermore, based on own estimation done, the study found that the occurrence and frequency of typhoons and/or floods …
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This paper reviews the effect of natural disasters on human mobility or migration. Although there is an increase of natural disasters and migration recently and more patterns to observe, the relationship remains complex. While some authors find that disasters increase migration, others show that...
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In this paper, we test the effect of weather shocks and floods on urban social disorder for a panel of large cities in … hypothesis using a novel dataset on floods−distinguishing those that affected large cities directly from those that … occurred outside of our sample of large cities. Floods are found to be associated with faster growth of the population in the …
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. Using panel data and a two-way fixed effects estimation, the analysis focuses on storms, floods, wildfires, and landslides …
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We evaluate whether floods and landslides are more likely when rain falls inside versus outside protected areas (PAs … floods and landslides is affected by whether rain falls inside or outside PAs. We use a two-way fixed effect panel data model … find that shifts in precipitation towards PAs reduce floods significantly. These results were highly robust. We also find …
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temporal patterns generally produce design floods that are notably different than those obtained from the design temporal …
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