The economics of natural disasters : concepts and methods (English)

Large-scale disasters regularly affect societies over the globe, causing large destruction and damage. After each of these events, media, insurance companies, and international institu-tions publish numerous assessments of the "cost of the disaster." However these assessments are based on different methodologies and approaches, and they often reach different results. Besides methodological differences, these discrepancies are due to the multi-dimensionality...

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Hallegatte,Stephane;

Przyluski,Valentin;
Document Date
2010/12/01
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Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS5507
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1
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1
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World,
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Other,
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2010/12/01
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Disclosed
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The economics of natural disasters : concepts and methods
Keywords
output loss

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Hallegatte,Stephane; Przyluski,Valentin.

The economics of natural disasters : concepts and methods (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5507 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/255791468339901668

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