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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

Environmental Disasters and Migration

Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2015

This paper reviews the effect of environmental disasters on migration. Although there is an increase of environmental disasters and migration over the past years, the relationship is complex. While some authors find that environmental disasters increase migration, others show that they have only...

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CONTRIBUTIONS REGARDING THE MANAGEMENT OF THE EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING

PRELIPCEAN, Gabriela; Cozorici, Angela; LUPAN, Mariana - In: Romanian Journal of Economics 33 (2011) 2(bis)(42), pp. 30-42

emissions, droughts, floods, etc. Human activities have contributed to a number of the observed changes in climate. This …

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Measurement of Economic Welfare Risk and Resilience of the Philippine Regions

Yonson, Rio; Noy, Ilan - 2018

risk from riverine floods. While there are similarities in the ranking of policies among regions with comparable levels of …

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Fiscal policy response of local governments to floods in Italy

Lodi, Chiara; Marin, Giovanni; Modica, Marco - 2022

floods, by accounting for heterogeneous levels of resilience and vulnerability to natural disasters. Our findings, based on a …

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Floods and financial stability: Scenario-based evidence from below sea level

Caloia, Francesco G.; van Ginkel, Kees C. H.; Jansen, … - 2023

We study whether floods can affect financial stability through a credit risk channel. Our focus is on the Netherlands … floods. Using geocoded data for close to EUR 650 billion in real estate exposures, we consider possible implications of such … floods for bank capital. For a set of 38 adverse scenarios, we estimate that flood-related property damages lead to capital …

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