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Amid a worsening climate crisis, how can coastal cities protect affordable housing?

The combination of the physical vulnerability of affordable housing, socioeconomic vulnerability, and increasingly frequent flooding presents a serious threat to residents of already scarce affordable housing stock.
Urban Institute
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2022

Measuring the economic benefits of advanced technology use for river flood forecasting

This study evaluates the economic benefits of the technology use to the farm sector in the Red River of the North Basin (RRB). As part of the Hudson Bay drainage system in North America, the RRB has been subject to Spring River flooding in the past century.
Journal of Flood Risk Management (Wiley)
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Repeated exposure to major disasters has long-term mental health impacts

A Texas A&M study found Houston residents who experienced two or more hazardous events in the past five years had a reduction in mental health scores.
Texas A&M University System
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2021

G20 Climate Risk Atlas: United States of America

This G20 Climate Risk Atlas factsheets sheds light on the risks faced by the USA. The G20 Climate Risk Atlas is the contribution of the CMCC Foundation – Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change to ensure attentive and well-informed climate action
Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
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