Dear all - I’d like to share a reminder for a special issue of Water Economics and Policy, “Disaster Impacts and Adaptation: The Economics of Flooding”. Full announcement is copied below and is posted on the WEP website: https://www.worldscientific.com/page/wep/callforpapers01
The deadline for manuscripts is May 7, 2021.Potential topics include, but are not limited to, (1) advances in measuring disaster losses, (2) evaluations of risk mitigation and adaptation strategies, and (3) evaluations of recovery mechanisms, with an emphasis on distributional effects. Best regards, ------------------- Maura Allaire Assistant Professor *Water Economics & Policy* Department of Urban Planning & Public Policy University of California, Irvine Office: 218F SE I Website <https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/allaire/> *Call for PapersSpecial Issue on Disaster Impacts and Adaptation: The Economics of Flooding* *Guest Editor*: Maura Allaire (University of California, Irvine) Flood losses continue to rise around the world, with multi‐billion‐dollar events becoming common. Globally, more frequent and severe flooding is expected to affect communities representing an array of contexts – coastal and inland, low- and high-income, urban and rural. As communities weigh options for adaptation, there is a need for more comprehensive understanding of disaster impacts and the effectiveness of interventions to mitigate risk and enable recovery. Growing attention to the broader socioeconomic impacts of disasters is evidenced through the adoption of the UN Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the EU Flood Directive. For example, targets within the Sendai Framework aim to reduce a broad variety of disaster impacts – including livelihoods, health, and disruption of basic services. At present, disaster impact assessments tend to be limited to property damage. Other aspects are not typically considered in estimates of disaster loss or cost-benefit analysis of risk mitigation options. Furthermore, most disaster recovery programs are oriented towards compensation for property damage, which might not address the needs of those struggling with unaccounted for impacts. Lower-income households might be disproportionately affected by non-property losses. Growing evidence suggests lower-income households struggle with lost wages, long-term financial stress, reduced spending on education and preventative health care, and other impacts on well-being. As a result of the focus on property damage, risk management interventions tend to favor higher-income individuals and concentrations of valuable assets. There is a growing need to measure non-property losses and evaluate risk mitigation and recovery mechanisms that can reduce such losses. In addition, little is understood about underlying drivers of non-property losses and perverse incentives due to status quo conditions. For example, do current adaptation strategies incentivize development in risk locations? How can vulnerability and impacts reflecting well-being be measured and incorporated into equitable solutions? While early econometric efforts focused on country-level analysis of macroeconomic indicators, more recent studies assess household-level impacts on consumption and income and can provide insight into heterogeneous impacts of disasters. Business interruption has been captured at regional and national scales with computable general equilibrium and Input-Output models, yet rarely has past research focused on more local scales. This thematic issue aims to explore these issues through the lens of water resource economics and policy. As the issue of flood impacts and risk reduction is global, submissions are welcome from all contexts. In addition, the scope of analysis can range from a single community to multi-national studies. Potential topics/issues include, but are not limited to: · Theoretical or empirical advances in measuring disaster losses, including losses not limited to property damage. · Empirical evaluations of determinants of flood losses, especially analysis at the level of the household or firm. · Descriptions and empirical evaluations of flood risk mitigation and adaptation strategies, including nature-based approaches, municipal zoning, building codes, property buy-outs, and various non-structural interventions. · Descriptions and evaluations of moral hazard and perverse subsidies under status quo conditions. · Evaluations of recovery mechanisms administered in public and private sectors (flood insurance, aid, etc), particularly with a focus on distributional effects. *Timeline and submissions*Manuscript submission deadline (via Editorial Manager): 7 May 2021 *About the Guest Editor*Maura Allaire is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focus is primarily on water resources economics, flood adaptation policy, and utility management. Allaire's research has appeared in outlets such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Water Resources Research, and PloS one. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/CABRb_3VAGBQ-XLMoCv6eTDOEpTnOnOdWke3R-ne92FXLb5_c4A%40mail.gmail.com.
