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Strengthening institutional capacity for disaster management and risk reduction through climate-resilient agriculture
Babu, Suresh Chandra; De Pinto, Alessandro; Paul, Namita - 2019
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Agriculture, transportation and the timing of urbanization : global analysis at the grid cell level
Motamed, Mesbah J.; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Masters, … - 2014
This paper addresses the timing of a location's historical transition from rural to urban activity. We test whether urbanization occurs sooner in places with higher agricultural potential and comparatively lower transport costs, using worldwide data that divide the earth's surface at half-degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226975
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Achieving strong and balanced regional development in India
Joumard, Isabelle; Morgavi, Hermes; Bourrousse, Hugo - 2017
sustainable irrigation technologies. As working population moves out of agriculture, urbanisation will gather pace. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732714
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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 years 2012 to 2018, we test several flood risk adaptation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334356
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Evidence on the variation of idiosyncratic risk in house price appreciation
Galimberti, Jaqueson K.; Cheung, Lydia; Vermeulen, Philip - 2022
2021, we provide evidence that idiosyncratic risk in real house price appreciation varies considerably across houses. We … find that idiosyncratic risk is time varying, depends negatively on the initial house price, varies strongly across … factors. By buying an above the median house in a low-risk region, and holding on to the property for a longer period …
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Does zoning help or hinder transit-oriented (re)development?
Schuetz, Jenny; Giuliano, Genevieve; Shin, Eun Jin - 2016 - Last revised: March 4, 2016
Despite its reputation as a car-oriented city, the Los Angeles metropolitan area has made substantial investments in developing rail transit since 1990. In cities with older "legacy" rail systems, the built environment has developed over time around fixed transit infrastructure, creating land...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011499850
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Foreign aid, urbanization and green cities
Li, Jun - 2013
Rapid urbanization, and particularly the associated problems of urban poverty, unsustainable development and environmental degradation, pose an enormous challenge to many developing countries. In the last decade more foreign aid has been diverted to urbanization and green city development. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009739573
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Income risk management in agriculture
2000
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Managing risk in agriculture : policy assessment and design
2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009271759