Assessing socioeconomic resilience to floods in 90 countries (English)

This paper presents a model to assess the socioeconomic resilience to natural disasters of an economy, defined as its capacity to mitigate the impact of disaster-related asset losses on welfare, and a tool to help decision makers identify the most promising policy options to reduce welfare losses due to floods. Calibrated with household surveys, the model suggests that welfare losses from the July 2005 floods in Mumbai were almost double the asset...

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Hallegatte,Stephane;

Bangalore,Mook;

Vogt-Schilb,Adrien Camille;
Document Date
2016/05/09
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS7663
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
World,
Region
Other,
Disclosure Date
2016/05/09
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Assessing socioeconomic resilience to floods in 90 countries
Keywords
flood

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Hallegatte,Stephane; Bangalore,Mook; Vogt-Schilb,Adrien Camille.

Assessing socioeconomic resilience to floods in 90 countries (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 7663 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/387821467309551281

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