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Flood Risks, Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Benefits in Mumbai : An Initial Assessment of Socio-Economic Consequences of Present and Climate Change Induced Flood Risks and o...
Hallegatte, Stéphane; Ranger, Nicola; Bhattacharya, Sumana - 2010
to flood risk in Mumbai. In 2005, Mumbai experienced unprecedented flooding, causing direct economic damages estimated at … limited share of total losses but a large shock for poor households. The analysis also demonstrates that adaptation could … associated with a 1-in-100 year flood event today could be reduced by as much as 70%. We show that assessing the indirect costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445918
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Assessing Climate Change Impacts, Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge Risk in Port Cities : A Case Study on Copenhagen
Hallegatte, Stéphane; Patmore, Nicola; Mestre, Olivier; … - 2008
, amongst other loses – deduced, allowing a risk analysis of the effectiveness of coastal flood protections, including risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446865
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Mobilising Private Investment in Sustainable Transport: The Case of Land-Based Passenger Transport Infrastructure
Ang, Géraldine; Marchal, Virginie - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2013
Transport infrastructure is a pillar of economic development and a key contributor to climate change. Globally, transport-related greenhouse gas emissions are expected to double by 2050 in the absence of new policies. There is an urgent need to scale-up and shift transport infrastructure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276641
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The Economics of Climate Change Impacts and Policy Benefits at City Scale : A Conceptual Framework
Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2008
Climate change has become a priority issue in global environmental governance and cities are important players. For over three decades, the OECD has been actively supporting member and non-member countries to design environmental policies that are both economically efficient and effective at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444537
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Ranking Port Cities with High Exposure and Vulnerability to Climate Extremes : Exposure Estimates
Nicholls, R.; Hanson, S.; Herweijer, C.; Patmore, N.; … - 2008
coastal flood event. For present-day conditions (2005), the top ten cities in terms of exposed population are estimated to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444655
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Harmonising Climate Risk Management : Adaptation Screening and Assessment Tools for Development Co-operation
Hammill, Anne - 2011
Development planners and project managers have used a wide variety of tools to manage a broad range of environmental risks, including those posed by climate variability, for a long time. Some of these tools have also now been modified to take into account the risks posed by climate change. At...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446596
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Integrated Assessment of Climate Change Impacts: Conceptual Frameworks, Modelling Approaches and Research Needs
Wing, Ian Sue; Lanzi, Elisa - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2014
This paper presents a framework to include feedbacks from climate impacts on the economy in integrated assessment models. The proposed framework uses a production function approach, which links climate impacts to key variables and parameters used in the specification of economic activity. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011007191
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Plan or React? Analysis of Adaptation Costs and Benefits Using Integrated Assessment Models
Agrawala, Shardul; Bosello, Francesco; Carraro, Carlo; … - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2010
Financing for adaptation is a core element in the ongoing international negotiations on climate change. This has motivated a number of recent global estimates of adaptation costs. While important from an agenda setting perspective, many of these estimates nevertheless have a number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008532028
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Flood Risks, Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Benefits in Mumbai: An Initial Assessment of Socio-Economic Consequences of Present and Climate Change Induced Flood Risks and of...
Hallegatte, Stéphane; Henriet, Fanny; Patwardhan, Anand; … - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2010
to flood risk in Mumbai. In 2005, Mumbai experienced unprecedented flooding, causing direct economic damages estimated at … limited share of total losses but a large shock for poor households. The analysis also demonstrates that adaptation could … associated with a 1-in-100 year flood event today could be reduced by as much as 70%. We show that assessing the indirect costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008726892
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The Economics of Climate Change Impacts and Policy Benefits at City Scale: A Conceptual Framework
Hallegatte, Stéphane; Henriet, Fanny; Corfee-Morlot, Jan - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2008
Climate change has become a priority issue in global environmental governance and cities are important players. For over three decades, the OECD has been actively supporting member and non-member countries to design environmental policies that are both economically efficient and effective at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045571