Article
Development Studies
Vidya Diwakar, Antoine Lacroix
Summary: This study found that climate-induced shocks and stressors lead to environmental shocks, prolonging poverty, affecting food consumption, and asset values. While there are some positive undercurrents at the subnational level, many households maintain their livelihoods through migration and local remittances.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2021)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Peter Nwachukwu Mba, Emmanuel O. Nwosu, Anthony Orji
Summary: Exposure to risk is a significant dimension of poverty, affecting household welfare outcomes. Different types of risks impact rural and urban households differently in terms of poverty. Social safety nets should be designed to address not only current poor households, but also non-poor households that may become vulnerable in the future.
Article
Development Studies
Chei Bukari, Isaac Koomson, Samuel Kobina Annim
Summary: This study examines the effect of financial inclusion and vulnerability coping strategies on multidimensional poverty. The findings suggest that the conceptualization of financial inclusion not only affects the identification of the financially included, but also influences how financial inclusion impacts multidimensional poverty. Incorporating informal financial sectors in financial inclusion measures can reduce multidimensional poverty, especially for female-headed households and rural areas.
REVIEW OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Zhi Chen, Han Yan, Chao Yang
Summary: Using household survey data from six counties, this study examines the impacts of extreme weather on farm household poverty vulnerability. The results show that warm days have a negative effect on poverty vulnerability, while heavy precipitation and consecutive dry days have a positive effect. The study also finds that the sustainable livelihood capacity of farm households partially mediates the relationship between extreme weather and poverty vulnerability. Additionally, agricultural production and operation-based farming households are more vulnerable to extreme weather shocks compared to rural households engaged in non-agricultural industries.
FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Moises Neil Serino, Jedan A. Cavero, Jacob Cuizon, Therese C. Ratilla, Brenda M. Ramoneda, Maria Hazel Bellezas, Maria Juliet C. Ceniza
Summary: The Philippine coconut industry, characterized by high poverty rates among small-scale coconut farmers, was severely impacted by a super typhoon in 2013. The typhoon significantly reduced the income of coconut farmers, requiring 7-9 years for full production capacity to recover. Farmers coped by exploring other income sources.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Olasunkanmi Habeeb Okunola, Peter Olabiyi Olawuni
Summary: This study examined determinants of household resilience to floods in Kaduna metropolis, Nigeria, and found that household flood resilience strategies were reactive rather than anticipatory. The study recommended government support, as well as improvement in income level and educational level to increase individual and household resilience against flood.
Article
Area Studies
Neelum Nigar, Unbreen Qayyum
Summary: This study examines the vulnerability of poor households in Pakistan to idiosyncratic and covariate shocks, revealing that these households are simultaneously exposed to both types of shocks and resort to further damaging coping strategies due to their low level of physical and financial assets. The research also suggests that the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) is ineffective in protecting households in times of shocks and should provide generous and responsive transfers to be an effective coping strategy for the poor.
JOURNAL OF ASIAN AND AFRICAN STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
J. A. Lopez-Bueno, M. A. Navas-Martin, J. Diaz, I. J. Miron, M. Y. Luna, G. Sanchez-Martinez, D. Culqui, C. Linares
Summary: The study finds that there are differences in vulnerability to Extreme Cold Days (ECD) between urban and rural populations in Spain. Socioeconomic status is a key factor in determining the distribution of vulnerability.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Abdulmalik M. Yusuf, Yusuf Isah Maikudi, William Adzawla
Summary: The study found that factors such as gender, age, education, occupation, income, housing status, flood education, and location play significant roles in determining households' choice of flood coping strategies. Access to credit from banks, seeking government support, and early warning information systems are crucial aspects of flood coping strategies. The study emphasizes the importance of considering input from all stakeholders, especially different age and income groups, in policies and programs designed to manage and reduce flood risks.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
(2021)
Article
Agronomy
Suci Wulandari, Fadjry Djufry, Renato Villano
Summary: COVID-19 has impacted Arabica and Robusta coffee farmers in Indonesia, with the study highlighting coffee livestock integration as an important strategy for improving farmers' livelihoods and introducing an innovation sharing model for implementation.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sanya Carley, Michelle Graff, David M. Konisky, Trevor Memmott
Summary: The study finds that low-income households employ various coping strategies in order to pay their energy bills, some of which pose physical and financial risks. Vulnerable households and those living in deficient housing conditions are more likely to engage in multiple coping strategies. These findings have significant implications for improving public policies.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Review
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Beatrice Monteleone, Iolanda Borzi, Brunella Bonaccorso, Mario Martina
Summary: This study examines articles published from January 2000 to May 2022 that implement crop vulnerability curves to weather-related extreme events and climate change. The analysis includes an assessment of the types of extreme events, crops, explanatory variables, functions, and parameters used in the development of vulnerability curves. The study also proposes comparisons among vulnerability curves and suggests areas for further research and recommendations for improving vulnerability curve development.
Article
Ecology
Kelvin Mulungu, Nicholas Kilimani
Summary: This study investigates the relationship between access to forest resources and coping strategies employed by rural households in Malawi. The results show that households are more likely to adopt costly coping strategies in response to covariate weather shocks, but the opposite is true for idiosyncratic shocks. The use of forest products helps poor households in cushioning against the effects of shocks and can serve as a critical safety net when access to forest resources is ensured.
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Xianglong Lian, Tong Qian, Zepeng Li, Xingyu Chen, Wenhu Tang
Summary: This research develops a quantitative assessment framework to improve the resilience of power systems against extreme weather events. It includes the identification of vulnerable lines and the development of a novel assessment index. Simulation results on a test system demonstrate that the framework is able to identify vulnerable lines and assess the resilience of power systems.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL POWER & ENERGY SYSTEMS
(2023)
Article
Economics
Li Zhou, Jie Sun, Wuyang Hu, Yu Zhang
Summary: Using data from China's poverty alleviation policy, this study examines the relationship between climate shocks and household coping behaviors. The results show that households in contiguous destitute areas tend to reduce household consumption and increase nonfarm working hours instead of selling assets in response to weather shocks.
CHINA & WORLD ECONOMY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Kejia Hu, Yunting Guo, Stefan Hoehrainer-Stigler, Wei Liu, Linda See, Xuchao Yang, Jieming Zhong, Fangrong Fei, Feng Chen, Yunquan Zhang, Qi Zhao, Gongbo Chen, Qian Chen, Yizhe Zhang, Tingting Ye, Lu Ma, Shanshan Li, Jiaguo Qi
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES
(2019)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Matthew W. Cooper, Molly E. Brown, Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Georg Pflug, Ian McCallum, Steffen Fritz, Julie Silva, Alexander Zvoleff
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2019)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Karen A. Campbell, Finn Laurien, Jeffrey Czajkowski, Adriana Keating, Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Marilyn Montgomery
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
(2019)
Article
Operations Research & Management Science
Asjad Naqvi, Franziska Gaupp, Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler
Article
Environmental Sciences
Finn Laurien, Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Adriana Keating, Karen Campbell, Reinhard Mechler, Jeffrey Czajkowski
REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
(2020)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Franziska Gaupp, Jim Hall, Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Simon Dadson
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
(2020)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Bina Desai, David N. Bresch, Christelle Cazabat, Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Reinhard Mechler, Sylvain Ponserre, Jacob Schewe
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Stefan Velev, Finn Laurien, Karen Campbell, Jeffrey Czajkowski, Adriana Keating, Reinhard Mechler
Summary: The study found that different types of communities have different dynamics of building resilience, and the process of disaster resilience is not linear or continuous. These findings provide practical and theoretical pathways for enhancing disaster resilience.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Karina Reiter
Summary: Environmental risks are a major global challenge, with indirect impacts also warranting attention. The concept of risk-layering can be extended to include indirect risks for better management of complex risk environments.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Thomas Schinko, Andries Hof, Philip J. Ward
Summary: Climate-related disaster risks pose a threat to sustainable development and require effective management strategies. Risk management is increasingly focusing on low probability but high impact events, requiring national-level efforts. Establishing a global fund is an international option to help manage global flood risks.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler
Summary: The global coronavirus pandemic has led to significant social and economic impacts, putting governments in weak fiscal positions and increased debt, which in turn raises the fiscal risk to natural hazards. Comparing fiscal risks pre-Covid and post-Covid, it is evident that disaster risks should not be underestimated at any time.
PROGRESS IN DISASTER SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Claudia Canedo-Rosso, Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Georg Pflug, Bruno Condori, Ronny Berndtsson
Summary: This study aims to classify drought severity in the Bolivian Altiplano using vegetation and land surface temperature data, analyze the relationship between drought and climate anomalies, and examine the spatio-temporal variability of drought. Severe drought events are found to be more common during positive ENSO phases (El Nino years), driven by low precipitation and high temperature, resulting in decreased vegetation and agricultural losses in certain areas. Satellite imagery data can be used to monitor droughts when ground data are limited, providing valuable information for emergency response operations and disaster risk management.
NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Celian Colon, Gergely Boza, Ake Braennstroem, Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, Georg Pflug, Sebastian Poledna, Elena Rovenskaya, Ulf Dieckmann
JOURNAL OF RISK RESEARCH
(2020)
Article
Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods
Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Juraj Balkovic, Kadri Silm, Anna Timonina-Farkas
COMPUTATIONAL MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2019)
Article
Business, Finance
Simon Dietz, Oliver Walker
JOURNAL OF RISK AND INSURANCE
(2019)