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-being effects for the affected households. It is estimated that households' losses due to the April 2018 flood reached more than USD … households were less likely to recover from flood exposure. The report finds that access to finance play an important role in …
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impact of a disaster - proxied by the discounted consumption loss - is found to increase nonlinearly with direct asset losses …
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inhabitants. In this context, a better understanding of current flood risks and consequences on the livelihoods and well-being of …, based on two rounds of survey conducted as part of the Tanzanian Urban Resilience Program (TURP). The results show that more … note focused in particular on the interplay between poverty and flood risks. It explores first the role of poverty in …
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-day and future flood and drought hazard maps. The paper defines and calculates a "poverty exposure bias" and finds support …
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,215 households were displaced, roads and bridges destroyed, and 1,560 dwellings were swept away. This disaster extends the growing … list of flood events having struck the city in recent years. Dar es Salaam was affected by similar incidents in 2009, 2010 … the urgency to address urban flood risk which causes major disruption to mobility, basic daily routines such as getting to …
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-day and future flood and drought hazard maps. The paper defines and calculates a “poverty exposure bias” and finds support …
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Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper … proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as the … main measure of disaster severity. Using an agent-based model that represents explicitly the recovery and reconstruction …
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