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Banerjee, Lopamudra - In: Review of radical political economics 49 (2017) 4, pp. 607-614

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Building business resilience to disasters

Izumi, Yutaro; Nakata, Hiroyuki; Sawada, Yasuyuki; … - 2024

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People in harm's way : flood exposure and poverty in 189 countries : Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020 background paper

Rentschler, Jun; Salhab, Melda - 2020

Flooding is among the most prevalent natural hazards affecting people around the world. This study provides a global estimate of the number of people who face the risk of intense fluvial, pluvial, or coastal flooding. The findings suggest that 1.47 billion people, or 19 percent of the world...

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Fifty years of peril : a comprehensive comparison of the impact of terrorism and disasters linked to natural hazards (1970-2019)

Wilson, Timothy; Noy, Ilan - 2022

We compare the realised impact of terrorism and disasters linked to natural hazards. Using fifty years of data from two databases covering 99 percent of the global population, we find that natural hazard disasters were more then 20 times more impactful than terrorism. The former had a larger...

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Flood disasters and health among the urban poor

Escobar Carías, Michelle S.; Johnston, David; Knott, Rachel - In: Health economics 31 (2022) 9, pp. 2072-2089

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Nowcasting from space : impact of tropical cyclones on Fiji's agriculture

Noy, Ilan; Blanc, Elodie; Pundit, Madhavi; Uher, Tomas - 2023

The standard approach to 'nowcast' disaster impacts, which relies on risk models, does not typically account for the … nowcasting, and for post-disaster damage assessment. We focus on Fiji and on its agriculture sector, and on tropical cyclones … be used for both nowcasting and post-disaster damage assessments. …

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