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Methodology and findings for the exposure analysis of the Chinese wastewater sector to flooding and earthquakes hazards : Lifelines: the Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity : back...
Hu, Xi; Pant, Raghav; Zorn, Conrad; Lim, Weeho; Koks, Elco - 2019
earthquake exposure of a spatially accurate wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) database for China, covering a total of 1 … understanding of the vulnerability attributes of WWTPs including their exact location, the number of users they serve as well as … their flood protection standards. For earthquakes, we examine the exposure of WWTPs to earthquake hazards through both …
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The inefficiency of private adaptation to pollution in the presence of endogenous market structure
Eisenack, Klaus - In: Environmental and resource economics 57 (2014) 1, pp. 81-99
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The inefficiency of private adaptation to pollution in the presence of endogeneous market structure
Eisenack, Klaus - 2010
The paper considersan industry where the effects of pollution can be off-set by investing in adaption as a private good. The focus is not on external effects, but on economies of scale that are introducted when the costs of adapting to pollution are independent from the quantity produced. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442762
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Scenario forecasts of expected damage from permafrost degradation : regional and industry issues
Porfirʹev, Boris N.; Eliseev, D. O. - In: Studies on Russian economic development 34 (2023) 5, pp. 651-659
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Necessity as the mother of invention : innovative responses to natural disasters
Miao, Qing; Popp, David - In: Journal of environmental economics and management : … 68 (2014) 2, pp. 280-295
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Food insecurity and compound environmental shocks in Nepal : implications for a changing climate
Randell, Heather; Jiang, Chengsheng; Liang, Xin-Zhong; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 145 (2021), pp. 1-13
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Effects of nuclear power plant shutdowns on electricity consumption and greenhouse gas emissions after the Tohoku Earthquake
Cho, Seong-hoon; Tanaka, Katsuya; Wu, JunJie; Roberts, … - In: Energy economics 55 (2016), pp. 223-233
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A gender-sensitive earthquake recovery assessment using administrative and satellite data : the Case of Indonesia's 2016 Aceh earthquake
Akter, Sonia; Chairunissa, Talitha Fauzia; Pundit, Madhavi - 2022
from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite instrument, distance from the earthquake epicenters collected from the … average monthly nighttime radiance and W2DI scores in earthquake-affected and unaffected villages of the Aceh Province before … and after the 2016 earthquake series. Similar to studies using the nighttime radiance to monitor disaster recovery and …
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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,...
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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