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financial protection from climate risk via catastrophic weather risk transfer tools. Done well, a weather index insurance (WII … level data on past agricultural productivity and weather conditions, we present an algorithm that generates an effective and …
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We measure the impact of extreme weather events — droughts and floods — on health-care utilization and expenditures in …
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New Zealand's public insurer, the Earthquake Commission (EQC), provides residential insurance for some weather …-related damage. Climate change and the expected increase in intensity and frequency of extreme weather-related events are likely to … between extreme precipitation events and the EQC's weather-related insurance claims based on a complete dataset of all claims …
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The increase in sea surface temperature (SST) is one of the primary consequences of climate change and has the potential to impact tuna fisheries. This paper theoretically models and then applies the production function approach to establish a positive but non-linear relationship between catch...
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financial protection from climate risk via catastrophic weather risk transfer tools. Done well, a weather index insurance (WII … level data on past agricultural productivity and weather conditions, we present an algorithm that generates an effective and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951825
We measure to cost of extreme weather events (droughts and floods) on health care in Sri Lanka. We find that frequently …
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Extreme weather events have significant adverse costs for individuals, firms, communities, regional, and national … emissions had changed the occurrence of specific extreme weather events, allows us to quantify the climate …-change-induced component of these costs. We use EEA to aggregate the global economic damage from extreme weather events that is attributable to …
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Extreme weather events have significant adverse costs for individuals, firms, communities, regional, and national … emissions had changed the occurrence of specific extreme weather events, allows us to quantify the climate …-change-induced component of these costs. We use EEA to aggregate the global economic damage from extreme weather events that is attributable to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426527
Extreme weather induced migration is a growing concern for low and middle income countries due to the increased … variability in the weather and the increase in the number of extreme weather disasters associated with climate change. The … objective of this paper is to examine the inter-linkages between weather, disasters, and migration, in India. To examine the …
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We compare the realised impact of terrorism and disasters linked to natural hazards. Using fifty years of data from two databases covering 99 percent of the global population, we find that natural hazard disasters were more then 20 times more impactful than terrorism. The former had a larger...
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