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post-disaster reconstruction and coastal resilience building efforts as well as climate change adaptation strategies. Our …
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used to investigate climate risk, considering flood risk in Ireland as a case study. The results highlight that while … population exposure offers insight into flood risk patterns, incorporating socioeconomic vulnerability allows a more precise …
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Exploiting the exogenous nature of flood timings in the United States, we study how floods influence outflow and inflow … migration using a difference-in-differences analysis. We further interact this with intensity of media coverage on such floods … to examine the effect of information nudges on such trends. Our findings show that floods cause a population replacement …
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This paper investigates the relationship between extreme weather conditions and the risk of flooding-induced harvest failure in Nigerian agriculture using a probit model. I use household-level survey and gridded weather data to exploit weather variation across time and space. Risk of harvest...
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The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus and the resulting falls in demand due both to uncertainty and policy interventions such as lockdowns, “social distancing,” and travel restrictions are having a severe impact on Asian economies and hence on Asian households. These negative impacts come...
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natural disaster relief and the ideological positions they take in the U.S. House of representatives in 1953-2010. The … empirical evidence shows that a better performance in post-disaster recovery is associated with more extreme ideological …
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Two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999 exposed rampant corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The government's relief efforts were tainted by corruption as well, and exhibited a great deal of incompetence. How voters responded to these in the next...
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experience suggests there are ways to strengthen policy frameworks to increase resilience to natural disaster shocks, including …
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In recent years, certain states facing a high probability of catastrophic hurricane and earthquake exposures have added the burden of socializing the risk of individual and business property losses instead of leaving these private actions subject to voluntary insurance markets. In turn, these...
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National governments are supposed to play a pivotal role in disaster risk management (DRM). This paper reviews trends … recommendations on how to establish disaster risk governance for developing countries, including mainstreaming DRM into development …
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