Paolo Avner
Biographic Data
| ID | 8760019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paolo Avner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paolo |
| FAMILY NAME | Avner |
| SIGNATURE | AVNER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Global Environment Facility |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0153-5205 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Within Reach
Despite global commitments made through the Paris Agreement in 2015 to combat climate change, their translation into national policies has been slow, raising concerns about the feasibility of achieving climate targets. While policies face many obstacles, the political economy is one of the primary impediments to climate action, and urgency to reduce emissions makes slow and gradual approach increasingly insufficient. The report attempts to identi…
Global evidence of rapid urban growth in flood zones since 1985
Efficiency and Equity in Urban Flood Management Policies
Flood exposure is likely to increase \n in the future as a direct consequence of more frequent and \n more intense flooding and the growth of populations and \n economic assets in flood-prone areas. Low-income households, \n which are more likely to be located in high-risk zones, will \n be particularly affected. This paper assesses the welfare \n and equity impacts of three flood management \n policies—risk-based insurance, zoning, and subsidize…
Climate Policy and Inequality in Urban Areas
Opposition to climate policies is partly due to their impacts on inequality. But with most economic studies focused on income inequalities, the quantitative spatial effect of economic climate policy instruments is poorly understood. Here, using a model derived from the standard urban model of urban economics, we simulate a fuel tax in Cape Town, South Africa, decomposing its impacts by income class, housing type, and location, and over different …
Flood Protection and Land Value Creation – Not all Resilience Investments Are Created Equal
This paper investigates the land value creation potential from flood mitigation investments in a theoretical and applied setting, using the urban area of Buenos Aires as a case study. It contributes to the literature on the wider economic benefits of government interventions and the dividends of resilience investments. Using a simple urban economics framework that represents land and housing markets, it finds that not all flood mitigation interve…
Three Feet Under
This paper analyses the degree to which infrastructure reliability and urban economic activity in several African cities is impacted by flooding. It combines firm-level micro data, flood maps, and several spatial data layers across cities through a harmonized geospatial network analysis. The analysis shows that a significant share of jobs in cities is directly affected by floods. It further details how transport infrastructure is subjected to sig…
Africa's Cities
Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing rapid population growth. Yet their economic growth has not kept pace. Why? One factor might be low capital investment, due in part to Africa’s relative poverty: Other regions have reached similar stages of urbanization at higher per capita GDP. This study, however, identifies a deeper reason: African cities are closed to the world. Compared with other developing cities, cities in Africa produce few go…
Etalement urbain et géoprospective
L’objectif de cet article est d’évaluer les apports et les limites d’usage des modèles SLEUTH, LCM et NEDUM-2D pour spatialiser des scénarios prospectifs d’aménagement du territoire. Les deux modèles de changements d’occupation et d’usage des sols spatialement explicites SLEUTH et LCM sont basés sur une approche inductive de simulation de patrons spatiaux tandis que NEDUM-2D est un modèle économique d’expansion urbaine à base de processus. L’appl…
Carbon Price Efficiency
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Carbon Price Efficiency
International audience
Etalement urbain et géoprospective
L’objectif de cet article est d’évaluer les apports et les limites d’usage des modèles SLEUTH, LCM et NEDUM-2D pour spatialiser des scénarios prospectifs d’aménagement du territoire. Les deux modèles de changements d’occupation et d’usage des sols spatialement explicites SLEUTH et LCM sont basés sur une approche inductive de simulation de patrons spatiaux tandis que NEDUM-2D est un modèle économique d’expansion urbaine à base de processus. L’appl…
Africa's Cities
Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing rapid population growth. Yet their economic growth has not kept pace. Why? One factor might be low capital investment, due in part to Africa’s relative poverty: Other regions have reached similar stages of urbanization at higher per capita GDP. This study, however, identifies a deeper reason: African cities are closed to the world. Compared with other developing cities, cities in Africa produce few go…
Three Feet Under
This paper analyses the degree to which infrastructure reliability and urban economic activity in several African cities is impacted by flooding. It combines firm-level micro data, flood maps, and several spatial data layers across cities through a harmonized geospatial network analysis. The analysis shows that a significant share of jobs in cities is directly affected by floods. It further details how transport infrastructure is subjected to sig…
Flood Protection and Land Value Creation – Not all Resilience Investments Are Created Equal
This paper investigates the land value creation potential from flood mitigation investments in a theoretical and applied setting, using the urban area of Buenos Aires as a case study. It contributes to the literature on the wider economic benefits of government interventions and the dividends of resilience investments. Using a simple urban economics framework that represents land and housing markets, it finds that not all flood mitigation interve…
Within Reach
Despite global commitments made through the Paris Agreement in 2015 to combat climate change, their translation into national policies has been slow, raising concerns about the feasibility of achieving climate targets. While policies face many obstacles, the political economy is one of the primary impediments to climate action, and urgency to reduce emissions makes slow and gradual approach increasingly insufficient. The report attempts to identi…
Global evidence of rapid urban growth in flood zones since 1985
Efficiency and Equity in Urban Flood Management Policies
Flood exposure is likely to increase \n in the future as a direct consequence of more frequent and \n more intense flooding and the growth of populations and \n economic assets in flood-prone areas. Low-income households, \n which are more likely to be located in high-risk zones, will \n be particularly affected. This paper assesses the welfare \n and equity impacts of three flood management \n policies—risk-based insurance, zoning, and subsidize…
Climate Policy and Inequality in Urban Areas
Opposition to climate policies is partly due to their impacts on inequality. But with most economic studies focused on income inequalities, the quantitative spatial effect of economic climate policy instruments is poorly understood. Here, using a model derived from the standard urban model of urban economics, we simulate a fuel tax in Cape Town, South Africa, decomposing its impacts by income class, housing type, and location, and over different …
Geography (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Flood myth (3 works) · Flood Risk Assessment and Management (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Civil engineering (2 works) · Climate Change Policy and Economics (2 works)