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Socioeconomic Resilience : Multi-Hazard Estimates in 117 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. The paper proposes a tool to help decision makers ide...

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Main Authors: Hallegatte, Stephane, Bangalore, Mook, Vogt-Schilb, Adrien
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:
natural disasters
vulnerability
poverty
wellbeing
climate change
disaster risk
social protection
targeting
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/885041478880630169/Socioeconomic-resilience-multi-hazard-estimates-in-117-countries
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25688

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/885041478880630169/Socioeconomic-resilience-multi-hazard-estimates-in-117-countries
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25688

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