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the macroeconomic resilience of the economy to natural disasters, is an important parameter to estimate the overall … vulnerability of a population. Here, resilience is decomposed into two components: instantaneous resilience, which is the ability to … limit the magnitude of the immediate loss of income for a given amount of capital losses, and dynamic resilience, which is …
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affected households lose?"), and socioeconomic resilience ("What was their ability to cope and recover?"). This study explores …, building resilience is not only about increasing income. It also requires providing the population with coping and recovery … mechanisms such as financial instruments. A flood management program needs to be designed to target low-resilience households …
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This paper presents a model to assess the socioeconomic resilience to natural disasters of an economy, defined as its …-level socioeconomic resilience. Because floods disproportionally affect poor people, each …
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proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as the …, the paper applies the socioeconomic resilience framework to a cost-benefit analysis of prospective adaptive social …
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Dar es Salaam is frequently affected by severe flooding causing destruction and impeding daily life of its 4.5 million inhabitants. The focus of this paper is on the role of poverty in the impact of floods on households, focusing on both direct (damage to or loss of assets or property) and...
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Large-scale disasters regularly affect societies over the globe, causing large destruction and damage. After each of these events, media, insurance companies, and international institutions publish numerous assessments of the “cost of the disaster.” However these assessments are based on...
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Assuming that capital productivity is higher in areas at risk from natural hazards (such as coastal zones or flood plains), this paper shows that rapid development in these areas-and the resulting increase in disaster losses-may be the consequence of a rational and well-informed trade-off...
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