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Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters in Megacities: The Case of Floods in São Paulo, Brazil
Haddad, Eduardo; Teixeira, Eliane - 2013
in the city of São Paulo through the use of a spatial CGE model integrated to GIS information related to the location of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397386
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Climate change and coastal zones: An overview of the state-of-the-art on regional and local vulnerability assessment
Sterr, Horst; Klein, Richard; Reese, Stefan - 2000
This paper provides an overview of the latest developments in methodologies for assessing the vulnerability of coastal … zones to climate change at regional and local scales. The focus of vulnerability assessment in coastal zones used to be on … variables that play a part in determining coastal vulnerability, as well as non-climatic developments. The paper presents a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608602
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Climate change impacts on the Mediterranean Coastal Zones
Brochier, Frédéric; Ramieri, Emiliano - 2001
examines the regional differences in the vulnerability of Mediterranean coastal zones from existing studies and projections for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608789
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The impacts of climate change on water resources of Lebanon-Eastern Mediterranean
Khawlie, Mohamad R. - 2001
Contrary to current notions about water abundance in Lebanon, the country is facing serious problems of unavailability, both in quantity and quality, geographical and sectoral. Even though this is due to several existing human-related aspects, i.e. management, ill-finance, non-integration and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608807
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Assessing the Effects of Climate and Socioeconomic Factors on Vulnerability to Vector-Borne Diseases in Latin America
García Ayala, Rodrigo; Estrugo, Andrés - 2014
, this paper presents and tests an approach to estimating the effects of epidemic outbreaks on health vulnerability. The … online platform, the paper finds that climate has nonnegligible effects on health vulnerability. The evidence found and the … vulnerability index constructed can be used to analyze the main determinants of vulnerability in order to address policy concerns. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314128
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Examination of Intense Climate-related Disasters in the Asia-Pacific
Thomas, Vinod; Albert, Jose Ramon G.; Perez, Rosa T. - 2012
The frequency of intense floods and storms is increasing globally, particularly in Asia-Pacific, amid the specter of climate change. Associated with these natural disasters are more variable and extreme rainfall and temperatures as recorded in publicly available databases for the world,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421245
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Farming and cropping systems in the West African Sudanian Savanna. WASCAL research area: Northern Ghana, Southwest Burkina Faso and Northern Benin
Callo-Concha, Daniel; Gaiser, Thomas; Ewert, Frank - 2012
Land Use (WASCAL) tackles this vulnerability by investigating the interface of climate and rural socia-ecological systems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327391
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Climate change compounding risks in North Africa
Drine, Imed - 2011
The impact of climate change on agriculture and poor groups' livelihoods are one of the greatest potential threats to development and a key challenge in climate change agenda. The North Africa region is particularly vulnerable to climate change due to geographic and ecological features. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280235
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Using Expert Judgment to Assess Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change: Evidence From a Conjoint Choice Survey
Alberini, Anna; Chiabai, Aline; Muehlenbachs, Lucija - 2005
We use conjoint choice questions to ask public health and climate change experts, contacted at professional meetings in 2003 and 2004, which of two hypothetical countries, A or B, they deem to have the higher adaptive capacity to certain effects of climate change on human health. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312286
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Climate change and vulnerability to poverty: An empirical investigation in rural Indonesia
Fujii, Tomoki - 2016
potentially change the vulnerability to poverty using a panel data set in Indonesia. We focus on the effect of drought and flood …, two of the commonly observed disasters there. Our simulation results indicate that vulnerability to poverty may increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688645