, through their impact on the intensity and frequency of floods. Population exposure affects the number of deaths both directly … smaller floods. In developing countries it also reduces the count of floods. …

We analyze the economic impacts of floods using new data on 3,184 large flood events in 118 countries between 1985 and …

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. …

Large, catastrophic floods intensify environmental scarcity and can lead to mass displacement from affected areas. The … the impact of the displacement induced by large floods on civil conflict using historical data for 126 countries during … 1985–2009. Our results suggest that while the displacement caused by large floods did not ignite new conflicts, it fueled …