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Rural people, vulnerability, and flood disasters in the Third World
Cannon, Cannon, T. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1990
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Rural people, vulnerability, and flood disasters in the Third World
Cannon, T. - International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus … - 1990
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683934
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Dealing with Increased Risk of Natural Disasters; Challenges and Options
Keen, Michael; Freeman, Paul K.; Mani, Muthukumara - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
Natural disaster risk is emerging as an increasingly important constraint on economic development and poverty reduction. This paper first sets out the key stylized facts in the area-that the costs of disaster have been increasing, seem set to continue to increase, and bear especially heavily on...
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Before the Deluge: Coping with Floods in a Changing Climate
eSocialSciences; International Rivers Network IRN - 2011
Improving our ability to cope with floods under current and future climates requires adopting a more sophisticated set … need to do to make our communities safer from floods. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828475
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Nature, socioeconomics and adaptation to natural disasters: new evidence from floods
Ferreira, Susana; Hamilton, Kirk; Vincent, Jeffrey R. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011
authors find that income is negatively associated with the frequency of floods and, conditional on their magnitude, the … numbers of floods and deaths when governance is weaker but raising them when governance is stronger. …
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Assessing the immediate and short-term impact of flooding on residential property participant behaviour
Eves, Chris; Wilkinson, Sara - In: Natural Hazards 71 (2014) 3, pp. 1519-1536
The past decade has seen an increase in the number of significant natural disasters that have caused considerable loss of life as well as damage to all property markets in the affected areas. In many cases, these natural disasters have not only caused significant property damage, but in numerous...
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Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: The Case of Large Floods
Ghimire, Ramesh; Ferreira, Susana - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2013
We investigate the impact of large floods on the risk of civil conflict in a sample of 125 countries between 1985 and … 2009. We control for endogeneity of floods and the potential spatial and temporal dependency of civil conflict. We find … that floods increase the probability of conflict incidence through a negative impact on short-run GDP growth. …
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Disasters, Poverty, and Coping Strategies: The Framework and Empirical Evidence from Micro/Household Data - Philippine Case
Israel, Danilo C.; Briones, Roehlano M. - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2014
/or floods in Pasay City, Metro Manila have significant and negative effects on household per capita income. It concluded that …
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Impacts of Natural Disasters on Agriculture, Food Security, and Natural Resources and Environment in the Philippines
Israel, Danilo C.; Briones, Roehlano M. - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011003978
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Do Natural Disasters Stimulate Individual Saving? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in a Highly Developed Country
Berlemann, Michael; Steinhardt, Max; Tutt, Jascha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
While various empirical studies have found negative growth-effects of natural disasters, little is yet known about the microeconomic channels through which disasters might affect short- and especially long-term growth. This paper contributes to filling this gap in the literature by studying how...
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