Assessing the Financial Vulnerability to Climate-Related Natural Hazards

There is increased concern about the rising costs from weather extremes. For financially vulnerable countries, there are three main implications: (i) efforts to reduce risk need to be seriously stepped up in order to reduce the serious human and financial burdens to the affected population, business...

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Main Authors: Mechler, Reinhard, Hochrainer, Stefan, Pflug, Georg, Lotsch, Alexander, Williges, Keith
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9048