What if Dutch investors started worrying about flood risk? Implications for disaster risk reduction
Increasingly, roles and responsibilities of the public sector in flood risk management are receiving attention in research and policy. Part of the debate suggests that allocating risk to the private sector increases efficiency as it promotes individual adaptation, thereby reducing the impact if a disaster occurs. In this paper, we analyse the macroeconomic effects as risk-averse investors take flood risk into account in their investment decisions. Our case study is the large Rotterdam area in the Netherlands. Using a spatial computable general equilibium model, we find that the decrease in inv... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2015 |
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Springer
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26634088 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/11291/ |