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Adapting to Flood Risk : Evidence from a Panel of Global Cities
Gandhi, Sahil; Kahn, Matthew E.; Kochhar, Rajat; Lall, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Urban flooding poses danger to people and places. People can adapt to this risk by moving to safer areas or by investing in private self-protection. Places can offset some of the risk through urban planning and infrastructure investment. By constructing a global city data set that covers the...
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Uncertainty, zoning and land development
Cunningham, Christopher R. - 2005
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Urban growth and uninsured rural risk : booming towns in bust times
Poelhekke, Steven - In: Journal of development economics 96 (2011) 2, pp. 461-475
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중국 도시화의 시장 창출 효과와 리스크 분석 (China's Urbanization; Consumption, Construction and Risks)
Choi, Pil Soo - 2013
Based on comparison of consumer durables between China's average and Shanghai, we found that fastest growth would occur in potential markets in air-conditioner and color TV among other home appliances; and in computers, mobile phones and passenger cars. On the other hand, it is pointed out that...
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China's Urbanization : Consumption, Construction and Risks
Choi, Pil Soo - 2013
Urbanization is the most important social-economic phenomenon in China today. Xi Jin-Ping regime would focus on … urbanization for the new growth momentum on one hand and cure for social instability on the other.Urbanization rate will reach 70 … by the heavy-industrialization policy initiated China's early urbanization. The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural …
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Urban risk reduction : an Asian perspective
Shaw, Rajib (ed.); Srinivas, Hari (ed.); Sharma, Anshu (ed.) - 2009 - 1. ed.
Preface / Rajib Shaw, Hari Srinivas, Anshu Sharma -- Introduction to urban risk reduction / Hari Srinivas, Rajib Shaw, Anshu Sharma -- Urban disaster risk analysis, action planning and implementation management / Phong Tran, Fumio Kaneko, Rajib Shaw, Lorna P. Victoria, Hidetomi Oi --...
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Megacities at risk
Marolla, Cesar - In: The Routledge companion to risk, crisis and security in …, (pp. 189-192). 2018
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Urban Flood Risk Handbook
Campos, Ana; Doeffinger, Tess; Ferguson, Scott; … - 2023
This Urban Flood Risk Handbook: Assessing Risk and Identifying Interventions is a roadmap for conducting an urban flood risk assessment in any city in the world. It includes practical guidance for a flood risk assessment project, covering the key hazard and risk modeling stages as well as the...
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Managing global risks in the urban age : Singapore and the making of a global city
Heng, Yee-Kuang - 2015
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The uncertainty of systemic risk
Ilin, Thomas; Varga, Liz - In: Risk management : a journal of risk, crisis and disaster 17 (2015) 4, pp. 240-275
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