The Road to Recovery : The Role of Poverty in the Exposure, Vulnerability and Resilience to Floods in Accra

In June 2015, about 53,000 people were affected by unusually severe floods in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana. The real impact of such a disaster is a product of exposure ("Who was affected?"), vulnerability ("How much did...

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Main Authors: Erman, Alvina, Motte, Elliot, Goyal, Radhika, Asare, Akosua, Takamatsu, Shinya, Chen, Xiaomeng, Malgioglio, Silvia, Skinner, Alexander, Yoshida, Nobuo, Hallegatte, Stephane
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/264651528401990188/The-road-to-recovery-the-role-of-poverty-in-the-exposure-vulnerability-and-resilience-to-floods-in-Accra
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29898

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