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Adaptation pathways and costing climate adaptation in Europe Open

Solène Dengler, Jun Rentschler · 2024

Flexible adaptation pathways are vital for addressing intensifying climate hazards and their wide-ranging impacts across Europe. A 2024 World Bank and European Commission report provides insights how countries can identify the needs and co…

Global air pollution exposure and poverty Open

Jun Rentschler, Nadezda Leonova · 2023

People's Unequal Exposure to Air Pollution: Evidence for the World's Coal-Fired Power Plants Open

Xinming Du, Jun Rentschler, Jason Russ · 2023

The world's over 3,800 coal-fired power plants are sources of substantial emissions of toxic air pollutants. This study explores people's unequal exposure to air pollution from these coal plants. It simulates the wind dispersion of polluta…

Distributional and Health Co-Benefits of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reforms: Evidence from 35 Countries Open

Christoph Klaiber, Jun Rentschler, Ira Irina Dorband, Ira Irina Dorband · 2023

Governments around the world continue to subsidize fossil fuel use, incentivizing unsustainable consumption levels with consequences for the global climate and human health. However, governments have proven reluctant to reform fossil fuel …

Fossil Fuel Prices and Air Pollution: Evidence from a Panel of 133 Countries Open

Kentaro Mayr, Jun Rentschler · 2023

Fossil fuel combustion is a major contributor to urban air pollution, which in turn can lead to negative health outcomes. While the relationship between fuel prices and consumption has been extensively documented, the knock-on impact on ai…

Measuring accessibility to public services and infrastructure criticality for disasters risk management Open

Mersedeh Tariverdi, Miguel Núñez-del-Prado, Nadezda Leonova, Jun Rentschler · 2023

People's Unequal Exposure to Air Pollution: Evidence for the World's Coal-Fired Power Plants Open

Xinming Du, Jun Rentschler, Jason Russ · 2023

Flood exposure and poverty in 188 countries Open

Jun Rentschler, Melda Salhab, Bramka Arga Jafino · 2022

Air Pollution and Poverty: PM2.5 Exposure in 211 Countries and Territories Open

Jun Rentschler, Nadia Leonova · 2022

Air pollution is one of the leading \n causes of death worldwide, especially affecting poorer \n people who tend to be more exposed and vulnerable. This \n study contributes (i) updated global exposure estimates for \n the World Health Org…

Global evidence of rapid urban growth in flood zones since 1985 Open

Jun Rentschler, Paolo Avner, Mattia Marconcini, Rui Su, E. Strano , et al. · 2022

As countries urbanize, human settlements are rapidly expanding into hazardous flood zones. This study provides a global analysis of spatial urbanization patterns and the evolution of flood exposure between 1985 and 2015. Using high-resolut…

Flood exposure and poverty in 188 countries Open

Jun Rentschler, Melda Salhab, Bramka Arga Jafino · 2021

Flooding is among the most prevalent natural hazards, with particularly disastrous impacts in poor countries. Presenting the first global estimates of the number of people exposed to high flood risks in interaction with poverty, this study…

Floods and Their Impacts on Firms: Evidence from Tanzania Open

Jun Rentschler, Ella Kim, Stephan Thies, Sophie de Vries Robbé, Alvina Erman · 2021

This study explores how businesses in \n Tanzania are impacted by floods, and which strategies they \n use to cope and adapt. These insights are based on firm \n survey data collected in 2018 using a tailored \n questionnaire, covering a s…

Flood impacts on urban transit and accessibility—A case study of Kinshasa Open

Yiyi He, Stephan Thies, Paolo Avner, Jun Rentschler · 2021

Transportation networks underpin socioeconomic development by enabling the movement of goods and people. However, despite their frequency, little is known about how floods disrupt transportation systems in developing country cities. We col…

Resilient Shores: Vietnam’s Coastal Development Between Opportunity and Disaster Risk Open

Sophie de Vries Robbé, Jun Rentschler, Johannes Braese, Dzung Huy Nguyen, Mathijs van Ledden , et al. · 2020

In a country that is among the most exposed to natural hazards, Vietnam’s coastline often bears the brunt. Typhoons, storm surges, riverine flooding, coastal erosion, droughts, or saline intrusion are all-too-familiar threats to most peopl…

People in Harm's Way: Flood Exposure and Poverty in 189 Countries Open

Melda Salhab, Jun Rentschler · 2020

Flooding is among the most prevalent \n natural hazards affecting people around the world. This \n study provides a global estimate of the number of people who \n face the risk of intense fluvial, pluvial, or coastal \n flooding. The findi…

Infrastructure Disruptions: How Instability Breeds Household Vulnerability Open

Marguerite Anne Beatrice Obolensky, Alvina Erman, Julie Rozenberg, Jun Rentschler, Paolo Avner , et al. · 2019

This review examines the literature on the welfare impacts of infrastructure disruptions. There is widespread evidence that households suffer from the consequences of a lack of infrastructure reliability, and that being connected to the gr…

Underutilized Potential: The Business Costs of Unreliable Infrastructure in Developing Countries Open

Jun Rentschler, Martin Kornejew, Stéphane Hallegatte, Johannes Braese, Marguerite Anne Beatrice Obolensky · 2019

This study constructs a microdata set of \n about 143,000 firms to estimate the monetary costs of \n infrastructure disruptions in 137 low- and middle-income \n countries, representing 78 percent of the world population \n and 80 percent o…

Candle in the Wind? Energy System Resilience to Natural Shocks Open

Jun Rentschler, Marguerite Anne Beatrice Obolensky, Martin Kornejew · 2019

This study finds that natural shocks -- \n storms in particular -- are a significant and often leading \n cause for power supply disruptions. This finding is based on \n 20 years of high frequency (i.e. daily) data on power \n outages and …

Stronger Power : Improving Power Sector Resilience to Natural Hazards Open

Claire Nicolas, Jun Rentschler, Virginia Attje Ingrid Albertine Potter Van Loon, Samuel Oguah, Amy Schweikert , et al. · 2019

Finally, it describes how emergency preparedness and disaster recovery encompass not only technical aspects, like asset strengthening or criticality analysis, but also "softer" skills, like governance, regulatory or capacity building, and …

Stronger Power Open

Claire Nicolas, Jun Rentschler, Albertine Potter van Loon, Sam Oguah, Amy Schweikert , et al. · 2019

The power sector is both highly vulnerable to natural hazards and a priority for any country'srecovery and reconstruction. After Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017, most of the power gridwas down. One year and tens of billions of dolla…

Underutilized Potential: The Business Costs of Unreliable Infrastructure in Developing Countries Open

Jun Rentschler, Martin Kornejew, Stéphane Hallegatte, Johannes Braese, Marguerite Anne Beatrice Obolensky · 2019

This study constructs a microdata set of about 143,000 firms to estimate the monetary costs of infrastructure disruptions in 137 low- and middle-income countries, representing 78 percent of the world population and 80 percent of the GDP of…

Three Feet Under : The Impact of Floods on Urban Jobs, Connectivity, and Infrastructure Open

Jun Rentschler, Johannes Braese, Nicholas K.W. Jones, Paolo Avner · 2019

This paper analyses the degree to which \n infrastructure reliability and urban economic activity in \n several African cities is impacted by flooding. It combines \n firm-level micro data, flood maps, and several spatial data \n layers ac…

Wading Out the Storm: The Role of Poverty in Exposure, Vulnerability and Resilience to Floods in Dar Es Salaam Open

Alvina Erman, Mersedeh Tariverdi, Marguerite Anne Beatrice Obolensky, Xiaomeng Chen, Rose Camille Vincent , et al. · 2019

Dar es Salaam is frequently affected by severe flooding causing destruction and impeding daily life of its 4.5 million inhabitants. In this context, a better understanding of current flood risks and consequences on the livelihoods and well…

Strengthening New Infrastructure Assets : A Cost-Benefit Analysis Open

Stéphane Hallegatte, Julie Rozenberg, Jun Rentschler, Claire Nicolas, Charles Fox · 2019

This paper explores the benefits and the costs of strengthening infrastructure assets to make them more resilient, reducing the repair costs and infrastructure disruptions caused by natural hazards. Strengthening infrastructure assets in l…

Resilient Infrastructure for Thriving Firms : A Review of The Evidence Open

Johannes Braese, Jun Rentschler, Stéphane Hallegatte · 2019

This review examines the literature on the role of infrastructure in determining the productivity and competitiveness of firms. It shows that the existing evidence base is clear in concluding that reliable and high-quality infrastructure i…

Building back better : achieving resilience through stronger, faster, and more inclusive post-disaster reconstruction Open

Stéphane Hallegatte, Jun Rentschler, S. Walsh · 2018

The 2017 Unbreakable report made the case that disaster losses disproportionately affect poor people. The Caribbean hurricane season of 2017 was a tragic illustration of this. Two category 5 hurricanes wreaked destruction on numerous small…

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