Conventional risk assessments underestimate the human and macroeconomic costs of disasters, leading to inefficient risk management strategies. This happens because conventional assessments focus on asset losses, neglecting important relationships between vulnerability and development. When affected by a hazard, poor households take longer to recover from disasters and are more likely to face long-term consequences. Forced to manage trade-offs between...
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2021/10/28
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Artículo de periódico
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2023/04/28
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Natural Disasters, Poverty, and Inequality : New Metrics for Fairer Policies
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asset loss