Socioeconomic Resilience in Sri Lanka: Natural Disaster Poverty and Wellbeing Impact Assessment (English)

Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as the main measure of disaster severity. Using an agent-based model that represents explicitly the recovery and reconstruction process at the household level, this risk assessment provides new insights into disaster...

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Walsh,Brian James;

Hallegatte,Stephane;
Document Date
2019/09/16
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS9015
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Sri Lanka,
Region
South Asia,
Disclosure Date
2019/09/16
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Socioeconomic Resilience in Sri Lanka: Natural Disaster Poverty and Wellbeing Impact Assessment
Keywords
asset loss

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Walsh,Brian James; Hallegatte,Stephane.

Socioeconomic Resilience in Sri Lanka: Natural Disaster Poverty and Wellbeing Impact Assessment (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9015 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/173611568643337991

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