Valuing disaster risk reduction neighborhood interventions in informal settlements of Latin American and the Caribbean.

This study assesses the dollar benefit of a neighborhood approach intervention on disaster risk reduction in small-sized, densely populated, and hazard-prone informal settlements across Latin American and Caribbean countries. We use a life satisfaction approach that assigns a dollar value to gains i...

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Main Authors: Alejandro Arrieta, Juan Pablo Sarmiento, Meenakshi Chabba, Weiwei Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242409