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Paper presented at The Seventh International Conference on HydroScience and Engineering (ICHE) hosted by the College of Engineering at Drexel Univeristy on September 10-13, 2006 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The conference theme was IT in the Field of HydroSciences. It included several...
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There is substantial evidence on the effectiveness of short-time work on reducing unemployment. However, no study looks at its role during natural disasters. This article exploits the exogenous nature of the 2013 European floods to assess if the impact depends on the quality of the short-time...
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Most empirical studies on private climate change adaptation rely on self-reported intentions which often fail to translate into real actions. Consequently, this strand of literature can only insufficiently account for the intention behavior gap (IBG) in climate change adaptation, which...
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. Based on the experience of Thailand's flooding in 2011, this study examines the extent to which the supply chain disruptions …
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Extreme precipitation and flooding cause large-scale impacts on people, and are further intensified by rapid …
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This thesis studies the impacts of flooding on income and expenditures of rural households in northeast Thailand. It … village level to identify the causal impacts of flooding on households. Two objective measures for flood intensities are … absolute levels of flooding, deviations from median flood exposure are driving negative effects on households. This indicates a …
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The costs of coastal sector impacts from sea level rise (SLR) are an important component of the total projected economic damages of climate change, a major input to decision-making and design of climate policy. Moreover, the ultimate costs to coastal resources will depend strongly on adaptation,...
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