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The rising costs of hurricanes

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  • Stéphane Hallegatte

    (Stéphane Hallegatte is at the Centre International de Recherche sur l'Environnement et le Développement (CIRED), 45bis, Avenue de la Belle Gabrielle, F-94736 Nogent-sur-Marne, France, and Météo-France)

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The impact of climate change on economic losses from tropical cyclones is a major concern. New research shows that — like changes in population and assets — climate change may double global losses from hurricanes.

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  • Stéphane Hallegatte, 2012. "The rising costs of hurricanes," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 2(3), pages 148-149, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:2:y:2012:i:3:d:10.1038_nclimate1427
    DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1427
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    1. Daniel Albalate & Gabriel R. Padró-Rosario, 2018. "“The Economic Cost of A Hurricane: A Case Study of Puerto Rico and Hurricane Georges 1998 Using Synthetic Control Method”," IREA Working Papers 201827, University of Barcelona, Research Institute of Applied Economics, revised Nov 2018.
    2. Pelli, Martino & Tschopp, Jeanne & Bezmaternykh, Natalia & Eklou, Kodjovi M., 2023. "In the eye of the storm: Firms and capital destruction in India," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 134(C).
    3. Vinod Thomas & Jose Albert & Cameron Hepburn, 2014. "Contributors to the frequency of intense climate disasters in Asia-Pacific countries," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 126(3), pages 381-398, October.
    4. Robert Bierkandt & Leonie Wenz & Sven Norman Willner & Anders Levermann, 2014. "Acclimate—a model for economic damage propagation. Part 1: basic formulation of damage transfer within a global supply network and damage conserving dynamics," Environment Systems and Decisions, Springer, vol. 34(4), pages 507-524, December.
    5. Yang Zhou & Ning Li & Wenxiang Wu & Haolong Liu & Li Wang & Guangxu Liu & Jidong Wu, 2014. "Socioeconomic development and the impact of natural disasters: some empirical evidences from China," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 74(2), pages 541-554, November.
    6. Hallegatte,Stephane & Bangalore,Mook & Jouanjean,Marie Agnes, 2016. "Higher losses and slower development in the absence of disaster risk management investments," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7632, The World Bank.

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