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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 …
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destruction' hypothesis proposed by the natural disaster literature. …
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Climate change poses an existential threat to the global economy. While there is a growing body of literature on the economic consequences of climate change, research on the link between climate change and sovereign default risk is nonexistent. We aim to fill this gap in the literature by...
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main disaster data sources available, discusses the determinants of the direct effects of disasters, and distinguishes …Catastrophes caused by natural disasters are by no means new, yet the evolving understanding of their relevance to … paper summarizes the state of the economic literature examining the aggregate impact of disasters. The paper reviews the …
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intense climate-related natural disasters. In a regression analysis within a model of disaster risk determination for 1971 …Intense climate-related disasters - floods, storms, droughts, and heat waves - have been on the rise worldwide. At the … side and anthropogenic climate change on the other? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising …
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intense climate-related natural disasters.In a regression analysis within a model of disaster risk determination for 1971 …Intense climate-related disasters — floods, storms, droughts, and heat waves — have been on the rise worldwide. At the … side and anthropogenic climate change on the other? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors — rising …
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Hurricanes are among the costliest natural disasters in the world, with a significant portion of their impact linked to …
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their flood protection standards. For earthquakes, we examine the exposure of WWTPs to earthquake hazards through both … sector to flooding and earthquakes hazards. This analysis is undertaken for changing flooding, under climate scenarios, and … earthquake exposure of a spatially accurate wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) database for China, covering a total of 1 …
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macroeconomic return of adaptation investment to natural disasters (NDs) and the impact of climate change. While the model follows …
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We examine how the occurrence of natural disasters impact the US economy and financial markets using monthly data since … 2000. Our analysis reveals large sustained adverse effects of disasters on overall economic activity, with significant … relative to GDP and a decrease in r-star following the disasters. With climate change persisting, this could constrain the …
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