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Floodplain Conservation as a Flood Mitigation Strategy: Examining Costs and Benefits

Kousky, Carolyn; Walls, Margaret - 2013

There has been growing interest among local governments in floodplain conservation as a flood damage reduction strategy. We evaluate one such investment—a greenway along the Meramec River in St. Louis County, Missouri. We estimate the opportunity costs of the conservation investment less the...

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Economic and Welfare Impacts of Disasters in East Asia and Policy ResponsesL The Case of Vietnam

TRUNG, LeDang - Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) - 2013

of the five cyclone centers on the planet. It is estimated that Vietnam is hit by 4.3 storms and more than 3 floods per …

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Impacts of Natural Disasters on Agriculture, Food Security, and Natural Resources and Environment in the Philippines

ISRAEL, Danilo C.; BRIONES, Roehlano M. - Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) - 2013

This study quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed the impacts of natural disasters (particularly typhoons, floods … be undertaken. In general, the study found that: a) typhoons, floods and droughts have an insignificant impact on overall … with the impacts of typhoons; and d) the different impacts of typhoons, floods and droughts on the natural resources and …

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Floodplain Conservation as a Flood Mitigation Strategy: Examining Costs and Benefits

Kousky, Carolyn; Walls, Margaret - 2013

There is growing interest in floodplain conservation as a flood damage reduction strategy, particularly given the co-benefits protected lands provide. We evaluate one such investment—a greenway along the Meramec River in St. Louis County, Missouri. We estimate the opportunity costs, the...

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Floodplain conservation as a flood mitigation strategy: Examining costs and benefits

Kousky, Carolyn; Walls, Margaret - In: Ecological Economics 104 (2014) C, pp. 119-128

There is growing interest in floodplain conservation as a flood damage reduction strategy, particularly given the co-benefits that protected lands provide. We evaluate one such investment—a greenway along the Meramec River in St. Louis County, Missouri. We estimate the opportunity costs, the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011043687

Improving Flood Insurance and Flood Risk Management: Insights from St. Louis, Missouri

Kousky, Carolyn; Kunreuther, Howard C. - 2009

This paper examines the history of St. Louis, Missouri in coping with flood risk over the past 15 years, with a focus on flood insurance. Six challenges to the continued management of riverine flood risk are identified and discussed. They are (1) many property owners don’t buy flood insurance,...

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Flood Crunch: A Fiscal Appraisal for Commercial and Residential Properties in England

KANTAMANENI, Komali; ALRASHED, Ibrahim; PHILLIPS, Michael; … - In: Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies 15 (2015) 1, pp. 17-26

This paper establishes and applies a coherent and concise empirical framework for evaluating damage costs for commercial and residential properties during flooding in England by incorporating a novel methodology i.e. Flood Cost Assessment Tool. This research also analyses whether these damage...

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Hedging climate change news

Engle, Robert; Giglio, Stefano; Lee, Heebum; Kelly, Bryan; … - 2019

We propose and implement a procedure to dynamically hedge climate change risk. We extract innovations from climate news series that we construct through textual analysis of newspapers. We then use a mimicking portfolio approach to build climate change hedge portfolios. We discipline the exercise...

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Climate risk and farming systems in rural Cameroon

Witt, Rudolf; Waibel, Hermann - 2009

Climate risk is particularly burdensome to small-scale farmers in developing countries due to heavy dependence on natural resources, limited and erratic rainfall with high inter- and intra-annual variability, and other natural calamities. Numerous studies on climate change suggest that climate...

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Designing a macroprudential capital buffer for climate-related risks

Bartsch, Florian; Busies, Iulia; Emambakhsh, Tina; … - 2024

Amid the growing financial vulnerabilities posed by climate change, we investigate macroprudential capital buffers to mitigate systemic risks and increase the resilience of the banking sector. Leveraging granular data and state-of-the-art stress testing methods, we quantify potential bank losses...

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