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We employ georeferenced data and longitudinal household panel survey data to investigate the impact of the dramatic flooding that hit Bangladesh from August-September 2014 on women's employment and empowerment. Development economics models suggest an increase in household members' labour supply...
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We study adaptation to climate change in a federalist setting. To protect themselves against an increase in flood risk …
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The presentation describes problem of flooding in Bangladesh: Among the countries that are the worst affected by climate change. Frequent natural disasters, loss of life, damage to infrastructure and economic assets, impacts on lives and livelihoods. Floods, tropical cyclones, storm surges and...
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natural disasters intensified by anthropogenic climate change. To this end, we link official geo-coded satellite data on flood …-affected buildings to neighborhood-level information on socio-economic status. We then document the empirical relationship between flood … percent lower in flood-affected neighborhoods than in non-affected neighborhoods nearby. Our study is the first to document …
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This paper investigates the relationship between extreme weather conditions and the risk of flooding-induced harvest failure in Nigerian agriculture using a probit model. I use household-level survey and gridded weather data to exploit weather variation across time and space. Risk of harvest...
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flood protection measures exist, they generally rely only on grey, hard-engineered infrastructure, which has been … increasingly challenged in recent years. Nature-based solutions (NbS) offer a new approach for flood management, with several co …
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significantly negative flood effect is observable which declines with increasing share of intangible assets. -- natural disasters …
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Objective - This research aims to map and identify the areas vulnerable to flood in Central Java Province, Indonesia …, using Geography Information System (GIS) and value the economic impact on flood mitigation using Contingent Valuation … Sukoharjo districts are more vulnerable to flood than other districts in Central Java Province. This evidence points the need to …
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zones. Groundwater flooding, which occurs with a temporal lag after fluvial flood events, shows only a partial strengthening … effect. Our results point to the importance of adequate flood precautions and risk communication, and to an adjustment in … flood insurance as property price effects are an important damage category in the flood risk management plans of communities …
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