Search Results - "Bakkensen, Laura A."

Climate costs of tropical cyclone losses also depend on rain by Bakkensen, Laura A, Park, Doo-Sun R, Sarkar, Raja Shanti Ranjan

“…It is well established that climate change will lead to changes in tropical cyclone (TC) characteristics and affiliated impacts to human communities. While a…”
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Population matters when modeling hurricane fatalities by Bakkensen, Laura A, Larson, William

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Going Underwater? Flood Risk Belief Heterogeneity and Coastal Home Price Dynamics by Bakkensen, Laura A, Barrage, Lint

“…Abstract How do climate risk beliefs affect coastal housing markets? This paper provides theoretical and empirical evidence. First, we build a dynamic housing…”
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Sorting over flood risk and implications for policy reform by Bakkensen, Laura A., Ma, Lala

“…Do individuals sort across flood risk? This paper applies a boundary discontinuity design to a residential sorting model to provide novel estimates of sorting…”
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Validating Resilience and Vulnerability Indices in the Context of Natural Disasters by Bakkensen, Laura A., Fox‐Lent, Cate, Read, Laura K., Linkov, Igor

“…Due to persistent and serious threats from natural disasters around the globe, many have turned to resilience and vulnerability research to guide disaster…”
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The Impact of Disaster Data on Estimating Damage Determinants and Climate Costs by Bakkensen, Laura A., Shi, Xiangying, Zurita, Brianna D.

“…An active literature utilizes natural disaster data to analyze damage determinants and estimate future costs of climate change. However, despite its importance…”
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Flood Risk and Salience: New Evidence from the Sunshine State by Bakkensen, Laura A., Ding, Xiaozhou, Ma, Lala

“…A growing literature finds evidence that flood risk salience varies over time, spiking directly following a flood and then falling off individuals' cognitive…”
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Cumulative impacts in environmental justice: Insights from economics and policy by Bakkensen, Laura A., Ma, Lala, Muehlenbachs, Lucija, Benitez, Lina

“…Disparities in health and socioeconomic well-being are a result of the cumulative impacts from multiple coinciding environmental, health, and social stressors…”
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Institutional design for a complex commons: Variations in the design of credible commitments and the provision of public goods by Schlager, Edella C., Bakkensen, Laura A., Olivier, Tomás, Hanlon, Jeffrey

“…Sustainably managing regional‐scale common pool resources and providing for environmental public goods often requires the cooperation of multiple governments…”
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Risk and Adaptation: Evidence from Global Hurricane Damages and Fatalities by Bakkensen, Laura A., Mendelsohn, Robert O.

“…We examine whether countries adapt to hurricanes. A spatially refined global tropical cyclone data set is created to test for adaptation. We find evidence of…”
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Did adaptation strategies work? High fatalities from tropical cyclones in the North Indian Ocean and future vulnerability under global warming by Seo, S. Niggol, Bakkensen, Laura A.

“…This paper examines the fatalities from tropical cyclones (TC) generated in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea making landfall in India, Bangladesh, and…”
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Is Tropical Cyclone Surge, Not Intensity, What Kills So Many People in South Asia? by Seo, S. Niggol, Bakkensen, Laura A.

“…This paper statistically examines the hypothesis that the level of storm surge, not storm intensity, is primarily responsible for the large number of tropical…”
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