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Socio-economic losses of flood and household's coping strategies : evidence from Flood Prone District of Pakistan

Hyder, Ameer; Iqbal, Nasir - 2016

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Heindl, Peter; Schüßler, Rudolf; Löschel, Andreas - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 94 (2014) 7, pp. 508-514

Die Energiewende umfasst neben dem Ausstieg aus der Atomenergie unter anderem auch den Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien, die Steigerung der Energieeffizienz und die Senkung des Treibhausgasausstoßes. Dabei wird viel Geld bewegt und es stellt sich immer dringender die Frage nach der sozialen...

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Vulnerability and responses to risk in rural India

Jha, Raghbendra; Kang, Woojin; Nagarajan, Hari K.; … - 2012

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Vulnerability as expected poverty in rural India

Jha, Raghbendra; Kang, Woojin; Nagarajan, Hari K.; … - 2012

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Vulnerability and Responses to Risk in Rural India

Jha, Raghbendra - 2012

Using Vulnerability as Expected Utility (VEU) analysis that permits the decomposition of household vulnerability into … its components on a unique data set this paper demonstrates that in rural India household vulnerability is most explained … participating in government programmes. Further, household consumption is highly covariate with income. This implies that existing …

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Have Natural Disasters Become Deadlier?

Gaiha, Raghav - 2013

The present study seeks to build on earlier work by identifying the factors associated with the frequency of natural disasters and the resulting mortality. Drawing together the main findings, some observations are made from a policy perspective to focus on key elements of a disaster reduction...

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Vulnerability and Responses to Risks in Rural India

Jha, Raghbendra - 2013

Using ARIS/REDS data set for 2006 for rural India this paper models household vulnerability as expected utility and its … components. We conclude, first, that between the years 1999 and 2006 household vulnerability is most explained by poverty and …. Third, household consumption is highly covariate with income. This implies that existing informal insurance instruments are …

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Floods and Spillovers : Households after the 2011 Great Flood in Thailand

Noy, Ilan - 2019

In 2011, Thailand experienced its worst flood ever. Using repeated waves of the Thai Household Survey, we analyse the …

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Household Vulnerability on the Frontline of Climate Change : The Pacific Atoll Nation of Tuvalu

Taupo, Tauisi - 2016

This paper investigates the vulnerability of households to climatic disasters in the low-lying atoll nation of Tuvalu. Small Island Developing States, particularly the atoll islands, are considered to be the most vulnerable to climatic change, and in particular to sea-level rise and its...

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Floods and spillovers : households after the 2011 great flood in Thailand

Noy, Ilan; Cuong Nhu Nguyen; Patel, Pooja - In: Economic development and cultural change 69 (2021) 2, pp. 829-868

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