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Italy is notoriously prone to natural hazards and disaster risk due to its peninsular and mountainous conformation. The … on the regional economy. Research of this type makes it possible to inform operative disaster risk reduction schemes and … limited risk prevention and legacy of uncontrolled urban expansion contribute to amplifying the risks and their impacts …
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disaster risk reduction (DRR), one that would replace the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) 2005-2015 …
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authorities and agencies and/or public authorities and civil society for disaster risk reduction. We pay attention to Public … resource management (CBNRM) and disaster risk reduction (CBDRR), as well as other cooperative initiatives. In many respects …. The analysis is complemented by examples of PuPs addressed in the ENHANCE case studies in which disaster risk reduction …
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An intertemporal optimal strategy for accumulation of reversible capital and management of an exhaustible resource is analyzed for a global economy when resource depletion generates discharges that add to a stock pollutant that affects the likelihood for hitting a tipping point or threshold of...
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If the threshold that triggers climate catastrophe is known with certainty, and the benefits of avoiding catastrophe are high relative to the costs, treaties can easily coordinate countries’ behavior so as to avoid the threshold. Where the net benefits of avoiding catastrophe are lower,...
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sectors via the destruction of capital stocks and jumps in risk premia. These disruptions often entail negative feedback … effects on the macroeconomy. Research on disaster risks has also actively been pursued in the macroeconomic models of climate … change. Our paper uses insights from the former work to study disaster risks in the macroeconomics of climate change and to …
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This paper studies how having your home damaged or destroyed by a natural disaster impacts on economic and financial … employment and income, but increases financial hardship and financial risk aversion. These impacts are generally short …
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-2017, we estimate the price effects of three flood risk signals: 1) the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act, which …
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on the universe of federal disaster declarations between 1989 and 2014, we document that congress members from districts … the disaster. The response to hurricanes does not seem to be driven by logrolling behavior or lobbysts' pressure. The …
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We study the optimal adaptation to extreme climate events by the central government in a setup where events are dynamically uncertain and the government does not know the true probabilities of events. We analyze different policy decision rules minimizing expected welfare losses for sites with...
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