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Atlas of mortality and economic losses from weather, climate and water extremes : (1970 - 2012)
2014
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Climate-related disasters and the death toll
Chavez-Demouli, Valérie; Jondeau, Eric; Mhalla, Linda - 2021
With climate change accelerating, the frequency of climate disasters is expected to increase in the decades to come. There is ongoing debate as to how different climatic regions will be affected by such an acceleration. In this paper, we describe a model for predicting the frequency of climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012614897
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Tropical storms and mortality under climate change
Pugatch, Todd - 2019
effect of tropical storm frequency and severity on mortality using objective meteorological data and the universe of vital … dispersion and population density along the storm track, I project changes in past storm-related mortality under various …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162952
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Tropical storms and mortality under climate change
Pugatch, Todd - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 117 (2019), pp. 172-182
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129862
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Tropical storms and mortality under climate change
Pugatch, Todd - 2019
effect of tropical storm frequency and severity on mortality using objective meteorological data and the universe of vital … dispersion and population density along the storm track, I project changes in past storm-related mortality under various …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977438
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The Quasi-Experimental Effects of Maternal Health, Severe Maternal Morbidity, and Extreme Climate Disasters : A Difference-In Difference Analysis of the South Carolina 2015 Extreme...
Sugg, Maggie; Runkle, Jennifer; Ryan, Sophie; Wertis, Luke - 2022
-miss mortality events used by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to assess maternal health trends. The aim of this study is to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082295
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Understanding the Role of Climate Change in Disaster Mortality : Empirical Evidence from the Global South
Chapagain, Dipesh; Bharati, Luna; Mechler, Reinhard; … - 2023
disaster mortality is highest in low-income countries, existing studies focus mostly on developed countries. Here we address …. We show that the rise in landslide and flood mortality in a low-income country such as Nepal between 1992-2021 is …-day precipitation increases flood mortality by 33%, and heavy rain days increase landslide mortality by 45%. Similarly, a one …
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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 … their flood protection standards. For earthquakes, we examine the exposure of WWTPs to earthquake hazards through both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051965
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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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