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Natural disasters and remittances : exploring the linkages between poverty, gender and disaster vulnerability in Caribbean SIDS

Attzs, Marlene (contributor) - 2008

This paper explores the linkages between poverty and disaster vulnerability in the context of remittance flows to … percentage of households living below the poverty line and seeks to identify whether flows of remittances alleviate the post-disaster … disaster, which usually affects the poor disproportionately, provides a push factor for -- natural disasters ; remittances …

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Reducing people's vulnerability to natural hazards communities and resilience

Cannon, Terry (contributor) - 2008

and disaster risk reduction. This paper seeks to bring greater rigour in their use. In particular, vulnerability must be … of §policy for disaster risk reduction at the scale of community. Here there is often an idealized notion of community as … ; community ; natural hazards ; disaster …

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Debt sustainability under catastrophic risk : the case for government budget insurance

Borensztein, Eduardo (contributor); … - 2007

disaster-prone areas of the world, it has the lowest levels of insurance coverage. This paper examines the vulnerability of …

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Conflict, disasters and no jobs : reasons for international migration from Sub-Saharan Africa

Naudé, Wim (contributor) - 2008

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the highest growth rate in net international migration in the world. The reasons for this migration are investigated in this paper. First, a survey of the literature on the profile and determinants of international migration in SSA is given. Second, panel data on 45...

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Weather-based estimation of wildfire risk

Ho, Joanne; Odening, Martin - 2009

Catastrophic wildfires in California have become more frequent in past decades, while insured losses per event have been rising substantially. On average, California ranks the highest among states in the U.S. in the number of fires as well as the number of acres burned each year. The study of...

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Fiscal storms : public spending and revenues in the aftermath of natural disasters

Noy, Ilan; Nualsri, Aekkanush - 2008

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Sacrifice, discounting and climate policy : five questions

Karp, Larry S. - 2009

I offer a selective review of discounting and climate policy. Analytic and numerical models show that different assumptions greatly change the degree to which decisions about climate policy depend on the discount rate. I discuss a claim that standard models exaggerate the current generation's...

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Global warming and extreme events : rethinking the timing and intensity of environmental policy

Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - 2010

The possibility of low-probability extreme events has reignited the debate over the optimal intensity and timing of climate policy. In this paper we therefore contribute to the literature by assessing the implications of low-probability extreme events on environmental policy in a continuous-time...

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Global warming and extreme events : rethinking the timing and intensity of environmental policy

Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - 2010

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Expected Utility theory and the tyranny of catastrophic risks

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Schymura, Michael - 2010

Expected Utility theory is not only applied to individual choices but also to ethical decisions, e.g. in cost-benefit analysis of climate change policy measures that affect future generations. In this context the crucial question arises whether EU theory is able to deal with "catastrophic...

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