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The effects of climate change in the poorest countries : evidence from the permanent shrinking of Lake Chad

Jedwab, Remi; Haslop, Federico; Zarate, Roman D.; … - 2023

Empirical studies of the economic effects of climate change (CC) largely rely on climate anomalies for causal identification purposes. Slow and permanent changes in climate-driven geographical conditions, i.e. CC as defined by the IPCC (2013), have been studied relatively less, especially in...

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Climate change and natural disasters : responding to the Philippines' Haiyan tragedy

Ratha, Keshab Chandra; Mahapatra, Sushanta Kumar - 2014

a path of destruction through several central islands, causing scores of people dead. The disaster's full impact is … still revealing as the entire country has been caught in a state of shock and desperation. The devastation is really … horrific with human tragedy. Responding to the disaster of such magnitude calls for both national and international hands to …

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Weather, Climate, and Migration in the United States

Mullins, Jamie T.; Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2021

Do people move as a result of temperature shocks? Documenting weather as a push factor for migration is crucial for informing policy related to climate change and adaptation. This paper studies the impacts of high temperature days on out-migration from counties in the US. We find that...

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Information Shock of Disaster and Hazard : Impact of Kaohsiung Gas Explosions and Risk Disclosure on the Equalizing Difference in the Housing Market

Liao, Wen-Chi; Luo, Yilan; Sun, Yajie - 2021

disaster risks. We fill this gap, analyzing a quasi-natural experiment with two events: the 2014 Gas Explosions in Kaohsiung … transaction data to difference-in-differences (DD) of two events. Existing DD studies only assess the price change of a disaster … neighborhood struck by the disaster has regained energy, a finding with implications for urban resilience …

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Vulnerability to natural shocks : assessing the short-term impact on consumption and poverty of the 2015 flood in Mozambique

Salvucci, Vincenzo; Santos, Ricardo - 2019

Mozambique is among the most disaster-prone countries in the world. A bigger than usual, and mostly unexpected, flood … results are relevant for policy planning, natural disaster management, and for ex ante vulnerability assessment in Mozambique …

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Household vulnerability on the frontline of climate change : the pacific atoll nation of Tuvalu

Taupo, Tauisi; Cuffe, Harold; Noy, Ilan - 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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Thomas, Vinod; Albert, Jose Ramon G.; Perez, Rosa T. - 2013

Asia and the Pacific? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising population exposure, greater …. In a regression analysis within a model of disaster risk determination, the most significant association is between the …

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Global increase in climate-related disasters

Thomas, Vinod; López, Ramón - 2015

side and anthropogenic climate change on the other? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising … intense climate-related natural disasters. In a regression analysis within a model of disaster risk determination for 1971 … implication is that climate mitigation and climate adaptation should form part of actions for disaster risk reduction. …

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Extreme weather events and climate change : economic impacts and adaptation policies

Ferreira, Susana - 2024

adaptation by directly providing public goods to manage disaster risks or by facilitating private agents' adaptation responses …

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Global Increase in Climate-Related Disasters

Thomas, Vinod - 2015

side and anthropogenic climate change on the other? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors — rising … intense climate-related natural disasters.In a regression analysis within a model of disaster risk determination for 1971 … implication is that climate mitigation and climate adaptation should form part of actions for disaster risk reduction …

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