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Natural hazards and internal migration : the role of transient versus permanent shocks
Pavel, Tanvir; Hasan, Syed; Halim, Nafisa; Mozumder, Pallab - 2018
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Natural disaster risk and the distributional dynamics of damages
Coronese, Matteo; Lamperti, Francesco; Chiaromonte, … - 2018
Literature on climate change and extreme events has found conflicting and often weak results on the evolution of economic damages related to natural disasters, although climate change is likely to bring about an increase in their magnitude (Van Aalst, 2006; IPCC, 2007, 2012). These studies usually...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894267
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Climate change, armed conflicts and resilience
D'Angeli, Mariagrazia; Marin, Giovanni; Paglialunga, Elena - 2022
back to its original conditions after a shock and relies on the combination of socioeconomic, institutional and …
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The social value of predicting hurricanes
Molina, Renato; Rudik, Ivan - 2022
Hurricanes are among the costliest natural disasters in the world, with a significant portion of their impact linked to the accuracy of their forecasts. In this paper, we estimate the economic impacts of the official hurricane forecasts in the US and develop a new approach for measuring the...
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Policies to mitigate the damage from coastal natural disasters : preparing southeastern U. S. coastal communities
Pompe, Jeffrey J. - In: Environmental economics and investment assessment II : …, (pp. 285-294). 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003751028
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Projecting Future Coastal Flooding Damages with Climate Change
Major, David - 2013
A scoping method for projecting coastal zone flood damage with climate change is described. The method links current flood damage estimates from climate impacts with estimated changes in parameters (such as flood frequency) from climate scenarios to produce estimates of future damages from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076261
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Natural disasters and fiscal drought
Milivojevic, Lazar - 2021
contains exogenous measures of physical disaster intensity, well suited for causal analysis. Empirical results suggest that … disaster in the top 1-percentile of the disaster index distribution increases government debt by almost 9 percent of GDP, while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225771
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Fiscal Buffers for Natural Disasters in Pacific Island Countries
Nishizawa, Hidetaka - 2019
post-disaster relief and recovery efforts. This paper estimates the effects of severe natural disasters on fiscal revenues … budgetary savings needed to build appropriate fiscal buffers. Fiscal buffers provide self-insurance against natural disaster …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864115
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Lessons from the Dzud : community-based rangeland management increases the adaptive capacity of Mongolian herders to winter disasters
Fernández-Giménez, María E.; Batkhishig, Baival; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 68 (2015), pp. 48-65
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Bayesian predictive analysis of natural disaster losses
Deng, Min; Aminzadeh, Mostafa; Ji, Min - In: Risks : open access journal 9 (2021) 1/12, pp. 1-23
the US shows that there is an increasing trend in annul natural disaster losses after 1980. Climate change is recognized … and risk prevention as this trend continues. In this paper, we convert natural disaster losses to the year 2016 dollars … outperforms the other two composite distributions in modeling natural disaster losses. Important risk measures for natural …
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