Global Tropical Cyclone Damages and Fatalities Under Climate Change: An Updated Assessment

Bakkensen, Laura A.; Mendelsohn, Robert

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-02402-4_9

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“…These natural events often cause significant casualties, widespread damages to agriculture and properties, and disruptions to communication networks (Hoque et al 2018;Mazumdar and Paul 2018;Saxena et al 2013). On average, 90 tropical cyclones originate each year across the several cyclone basins worldwide (Bakkensen and Mendelsohn 2019;Mansour 2019). Tropical cyclone impacts are frequently observed in many coastal regions of the world.…”

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“…Currently, the vulnerability of coastal people and their resources to tropical cyclone impacts are a big concern since the exposure is increasing rapidly (Alam and Dominey-Howes 2015;Sahoo and Bhaskaran 2018). Future climate change scenarios, particularly sea-level rise, may accelerate this vulnerability to a greater extent (Appelquist and Balstrøm 2015;Bakkensen and Mendelsohn 2019;Moon et al 2019;Xu et al 2015).…”

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Cyclone vulnerability assessment of the western coast of Bangladesh

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Pradhan

Ahmed

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Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk

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Cyclone vulnerability assessment of the western coast of Bangladesh

Hoque

Pradhan

Ahmed

et al. 2021

Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk

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“…This article views storm as a generic term to describe a large variety of atmospheric disturbances ranging from ordinary rain showers to thunderstorms, wind and wind-related disturbances such as tornadoes, tropical cyclones and sandstorms. The theoretical foundation based on Bakkensen and Mendelsohn ( 2016 , 2019 ) and Mendelsohn et al ( 2012 ) assumes that the economic damage ( D ) from each storm is the sum of all the losses caused by it. Damages could be lost buildings, infrastructure and human fatalities.…”

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Economic vulnerability to tropical storms on the southeastern coast of Africa

Molua

Mendelsohn

Akamin

2020

Jàmbá Journal of Disaster Risk Studies

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Climate change will hit Africa economically hard, not least Southeast Africa. Understanding the impact of extreme climatic events is important for both economic development and climate change policy. Global climatological summaries reveal high damage potential pathways for developed countries. Will countries in Africa, especially in the southeastern board of the continent, be vulnerable to loss-generating extreme climate events? This study examined for countries in the sub-region, their vulnerability and damage costs, the impact of climate change on tropical storm damage, as well as the differential impacts of storm damages. An approach using a combination of physical and economic reasoning, as well as results of previous studies, reveals that in Southeast Africa, the economic response to the key damage parameters of intensity, size and wind speed is significant for all the countries. Damages in Kenya and Tanzania are sensitive to wind speed. Both vulnerability and adaptation are important for Madagascar and Mozambique – two countries predicted to be persistently damaged by tropical storms. For Mauritius and South Africa, inflictions from extreme events are expected to be impactful, and would require resilient public and private infrastructure. Reducing the physical and socio-economic vulnerability to extreme events will require addressing the underlying socio-economic drivers, as well as developing critical public infrastructure.

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