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Caribbean Islands are exposed to hurricanes, the damages of which are projected to intensify due to anthropogenic … climate change. The region is also highly indebted. We focus on the interaction between climate change, hurricanes, and public … debt. We investigate what the typical impact of Caribbean hurricanes on public debt in the region has been and how …
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effect of tropical storm frequency and severity on mortality using objective meteorological data and the universe of vital … statistics records from a large developing country, Mexico. Using a measure of storm exposure that accounts for both windspeed … dispersion and population density along the storm track, I project changes in past storm-related mortality under various …
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effect of tropical storm frequency and severity on mortality using objective meteorological data and the universe of vital … statistics records from a large developing country, Mexico. Using a measure of storm exposure that accounts for both windspeed … dispersion and population density along the storm track, I project changes in past storm-related mortality under various …
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Climate disasters raise the salience of climate change’s negative consequences, including climate-induced migration. Policy action to address climate displacement is especially contentious in the U.S., where weak support for tackling climate change intersects with high opposition to...
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fiscal policy and publicly-provided disaster insurance. Our policy conclusions point to the enhanced need to reach and …
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. The disaster affected all 13 municipalities of Timor-Leste, caused at least 44 fatalities, damaged critical infrastructure … as well as longer-term implications for disaster risk management. It will serve as inputs to a more detailed Post-Disaster …
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. The disaster affected all 13 municipalities of Timor-Leste, caused at least 44 fatalities, damaged critical infrastructure … as well as longer-term implications for disaster risk management. It will serve as inputs to a more detailed Post-Disaster …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013181672
Climate change is already increasing the severity of extreme weather events such as with rainfall during hurricanes … change-attributed flood depths and damages during Hurricane Harvey in Harris County, Texas. We then combine this information …
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