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Voter Response to Natural Disaster Aid : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Drought Relief Payments in Mexico

Fuchs, Alan - 2017

voters reward the incumbent presidential party for delivering drought relief compensation. The paper finds that receiving …

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The Cost of Being Under the Weather : Droughts, Floods, and Health Care Costs in Sri Lanka

De Alwis, Diana - 2017

with access to sanitation and hygiene. Finally, both direct and indirect risks associated with flood and drought on health …

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Quantifying the Data Deluge and the Data Drought

Hilbert, Martin - 2017

The world's big data capacity can be understood in terms of the world's storage capacity, and the telecommunication capacity to access this storage (‘the cloud'). In order to do this we mainly follow the methodology of what has become the standard reference in estimating the world's...

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Willingness to Pay for Low Water Footprint Food Choices During Drought

Krovetz, Hannah - 2017

In the context of recent California drought years, we investigate empirically whether consumers are willing to pay for … cents per gallon of water saved on average. Moreover, informing consumers about the drought severity increases the WTP for …

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Confronting drought in Africa's drylands : opportunities for enhancing resilience

Cervigni, Raffaello (ed.); Morris, Michael L. (ed.) - 2016

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editors -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- Overview -- Scope of inquiry: Focus of this book -- Conceptual framework: The determinants of resilience -- Vulnerability in drylands if transformation is not managed -- Options for...

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Exploring Climate Change Perceptions, Rainfall Trends and Perceived Barriers to Adaptation in a Drought Affected Region in India

Panda, Architesh - 2016

Climate change poses major challenges to agricultural systems in drought prone regions of the world especially in the … paper using household surveys and focus group discussions in one of the drought prone areas of Odisha in India, explores … profound inﬂuence on the farmers' perceptions on climate change and drought in the study region. Farmers' are still dependent …

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Droughts Versus the Situation of the Polish Farms of Natural Persons

Józwiak, Wojciech; Zieliński, Marek; Ziętara, Wojciech - 2016

The paper presents the situation of farms located in areas exposed to droughts, emphasising the situation of those having poor quality soils. The research covered 296 farms keeping uninterrupted accounts under the Polish FADN over the period of 2006-2013, in the area of 96 gminas especially...

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Drought in the City : The Economic Impact of Water Scarcity in Latin American Metropolitan Areas

Desbureaux, Sébastien - 2018

While the harmful impact of droughts is well-documented in rural areas, how droughts affect cities' economies remains an open question. Using monthly labour force surveys from 78 cities in Latin America, we demonstrate that large sustained dry events decrease the probability of being employed,...

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Droughts’ Trade Effects and Physical Infrastructure

Ledyaeva, Svetlana - 2018

supply. Length of the drought is negatively associated only with export of industries with high reliance on water supply …

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Cognitive droughts

Lichand, Guilherme; Mani, Anandi - 2020

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