Assessing Socioeconomic Resilience to Floods in 90 Countries

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...

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Main Authors: Hallegatte, Stephane, Bangalore, Mook, Vogt-Schilb, Adrien
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:
GDP
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/05/26361020/assessing-socioeconomic-resilience-floods-90-countries
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24503