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Variation in Risk Seeking Behavior in a Natural Experiment on Large Losses Induced by a Natural Disaster

Page, Lionel; Savage, David; Torgler, Benno - 2012

This study explores people's risk attitudes after having suffered large real-world losses following a natural disaster …

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Assessing the Consequences of Natural Disasters on Production Networks : A Disaggregated Approach

Henriet, Fanny; Hallegatte, S. - 2013

disaster costs depend on the heterogeneity of losses and on the structure of the affected economic network. The model …

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Integrated Assessment of Climate Catastrophes with Endogenous Uncertainty : Does the Risk of Ice Sheet Collapse Justify Precautionary Mitigation?

Diaz, Delavane - 2015

Greenhouse gas policies confront the trade-off between the costs of reducing emissions and the benefits of avoided climate change. The risk of uncertain and potentially irreversible catastrophes is an important issue related to the latter, and one that has not yet been well incorporated into...

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The Economic Impact of Weather and Climate

Tol, Richard S. J. - 2021

I propose a new conceptual framework to disentangle the impacts of weather and climate on economic activity and growth: A stochastic frontier model with climate in the production frontier and weather shocks as a source of inefficiency. I test it on a sample of 160 countries over the period...

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An Exploration of the Link between Development, Economic Growth, and Natural Risk

Hallegatte, S. - 2013

probability of disaster occurrence to decrease with income; (ii) the capital at risk – and thus the economic losses in case of … disaster – to increase faster than economic growth; (iii) the average annual losses to grow faster than income at low levels of … observation of a trend in disaster losses should not be confused with the presence of excessive risk taking. In a descriptive …

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Orienting Flood Risk Management to Disaster Risk Creation : lessons from the Water Framework Directive

Cazzola, Giacomo - 2022

This paper proposes an application of the analytical path assembled within my PhD research on Disaster Risk Creation … challenges, for spatial planning and disaster risk management, in understanding, evaluating, and addressing Disaster Risk (DR … methodological approach benefits from well-established theoretical models of causal analysis of Disaster Risk Creation processes as …

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Partnerships for Affordable and Equitable Disaster Insurance

Myšiak, Jaroslav - 2015

natural catastrophes. Amidst budgetary cuts, there is a growing concern on societies' ability to design solvent disaster …

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Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction – Success or Warning Sign for Paris?

Myšiak, Jaroslav - 2015

In March 2015, a new international blueprint for disaster risk reduction (DRR) has been adopted in Sendai, Japan, at … the end of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR, March 14-18, 2015). We review and discuss the …

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Climate Change and Extreme Events : An Assessment of Economic Implications

Roson, Roberto; Calzadilla, Alvaro; Pauli, Francesco - 2014

We use a general equilibrium model of the world economy, and a regional economic growth model, to assess the economic implications of vulnerability from extreme meteorological events, induced by the climate change. In particular, we first consider the impact of climate change on ENSO and NAO...

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Quantifying Catastrophic and Climate Impacted Hazards Based on Local Expert Opinions

Keighley, Tim - 2014

The analysis of catastrophic and climate impacted hazards is a challenging but important exercise, as the occurrence of such events is usually associated with high damage and uncertainty. Often, at the local level, there is a lack of information on rare extreme events, such that available data...

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