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Urban sustainability: Analyzing the water-energy nexus in the Guandu river basin, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

González-Bravo, Ramón; Marques, Maria Clara; Bezerra, … - In: Energy Reports 6 (2020) 1, pp. 254-260

Urban sustainability has been one of the most important issues in the last decades. The modification of watercourses and their integration to power production facilities have resulted in severe environmental impacts around the globe. This study presents a sustainability analysis to examine the...

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Estimating global damages from sea level rise with the Coastal Impact and Adaptation Model (CIAM)

Diaz, Delavane B. - 2015

The costs of coastal sector impacts from sea level rise (SLR) are an important component of the total projected economic damages of climate change, a major input to decision-making and design of climate policy. Moreover, the ultimate costs to coastal resources will depend strongly on adaptation,...

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A vulnerability research framework for the development of early warning systems for floods

Tauzer, Erica; Borbor-Cordova, Mercy J.; de la Cuadra, Telmo - 2017

levels. By analyzing interventions before, during and after flooding events, this generalizable assessment tool provides …

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Kurzarbeit and natural disasters: How effective are short-time working allowances in avoiding unemployment?

Fournier Gabela, Julio G.; Sarmiento, Luis - 2020

There is substantial evidence on the effectiveness of short-time work on reducing unemployment. However, no study looks at its role during natural disasters. This article exploits the exogenous nature of the 2013 European floods to assess if the impact depends on the quality of the short-time...

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The intention-behavior gap in climate change adaptation

Kesternich, Martin; Osberghaus, Daniel; Botzen, W. J. Wouter - 2022

Most empirical studies on private climate change adaptation rely on self-reported intentions which often fail to translate into real actions. Consequently, this strand of literature can only insufficiently account for the intention behavior gap (IBG) in climate change adaptation, which...

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Thailand's 2011 flooding: Its impact on direct exports and global supply chains

Chongvilaivan, Aekapol - 2012

. Based on the experience of Thailand's flooding in 2011, this study examines the extent to which the supply chain disruptions …

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Impacts of natural disasters on households and small businesses in India

Patankar, Archana - 2019

Extreme precipitation and flooding cause large-scale impacts on people, and are further intensified by rapid …

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Household level effects of flooding: Evidence from Thailand

Ashikbayeva, Zhuldyz; Fürstenberg, Marei; Kapelari, Timo; … - 2020

This thesis studies the impacts of flooding on income and expenditures of rural households in northeast Thailand. It … village level to identify the causal impacts of flooding on households. Two objective measures for flood intensities are … absolute levels of flooding, deviations from median flood exposure are driving negative effects on households. This indicates a …

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Unintended consequences of "mandatory" flood insurance

Blickle, Kristian; Santos, João A. C. - 2022

We document that the quasi-mandatory U.S. flood insurance program reduces mortgage lending along both the extensive and intensive margins. We measure flood insurance mandates using FEMA flood maps, focusing on the discreet updates to these maps that can be made exogenous to true underlying flood...

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Deconstructing the climate migration myth: Assessing the impact of the 2022 floods on the movement of local populations in rural Punjab

Chaudhry, Rabia; Youkhana, Eva - 2024

The link between climate change and migration has gained considerable recognition in recent years. Yet, it remains a complex and highly divisive issue in policy and academic circles alike. Fanned by populist politics and partisan media, misleading claims of large-scale migration of climate...

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