Economic impacts of natural disasters in megacities: The case of floods in São Paulo, Brazil

Habitat International

Volumn 45, Issue P2, 2015, Pages 106-113

  Haddad, Eduardo Amaral ^a,b   Teixeira, Eliane ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Institute of Economic Research Foundation FIPE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Climate change; Flooding in S o Paulo; GIS; Natural disasters; Spatial computable general equilibrium model

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC IMPACT; FLOODING; GIS; INCOME; MEGACITY; METROPOLITAN AREA; NATURAL DISASTER;

BRAZIL; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL];

EID: 84911410114     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2014.06.023     Document Type: Article

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