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Assessing socioeconomic resilience to floods in 90 countries

Hallegatte, Stéphane; Bangalore, Mook; Vogt-Schilb, Adrien - 2016

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Assessing Socioeconomic Resilience to Floods in 90 Countries

Hallegatte, S. - 2017

-level socioeconomic resilience. Because floods disproportionally affect poor people, each $1 of global flood asset loss is equivalent to a … reduce flood losses in each country. It shows that considering asset losses is insufficient to assess disaster risk …

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Assessing Socioeconomic Resilience to Floods in 90 Countries

Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2016

This paper presents a model to assess the socioeconomic resilience to natural disasters of an economy, defined as its capacity to mitigate the impact of disaster-related asset losses on welfare, and a tool to help decision makers identify the most promising policy options to reduce welfare...

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An economic and social review of gambling in Great Britain

Forrest, David - In: The journal of gambling business and economics 7 (2013) 3, pp. 1-33

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Vulnerability to natural shocks : assessing the short-term impact on consumption and poverty of the 2015 flood in Mozambique

Salvucci, Vincenzo; Santos, Ricardo - 2019

Mozambique is among the most disaster-prone countries in the world. A bigger than usual, and mostly unexpected, flood … those months to assess the short-term impact of the 2015 flood on household consumption and poverty levels. Applying a … difference-in-difference approach, we find that, for those exposed to the flood, consumption reduced significantly in the short …