Comment on 'High-income does not protect against hurricane losses'

dc.bibliographicCitation.issue9eng
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume12
dc.contributor.authorRybski, Diego
dc.contributor.authorPrahl, Boris F.
dc.contributor.authorKropp, Jürgen P.
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-27T00:06:04Z
dc.date.available2019-06-28T10:34:41Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractGeiger et al (Environ. Res. Lett. 2016 11 084012) employ two functional relationships to characterize hurricane damage in the USA—either based on GDP (one exponent) or on per capita GDP and population (two exponents). From the Akaike Information Criterion the authors cannot reject the former kind in favor of the latter. The different approaches, however, lead to divergent projections of future hurricane losses. In this comment, we argue that there is no rigorous evidence in [1] to give preference to one or the other approach, and the conclusion that high-income does not protect against hurricane losses needs to be revisited. As a perspective, it needs to be mentioned that the previously published relationship between GDP and population could unify both approaches.eng
dc.description.versionpublishedVersioneng
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dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.34657/208
dc.identifier.urihttps://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/3766
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherBristol : IOP Publishingeng
dc.relation.doihttps://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa88d8
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEnvironmental Research Letters, Volume 12, Issue 9eng
dc.rights.licenseCC BY 3.0 Unportedeng
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/eng
dc.subjectDamage functioneng
dc.subjectGDPeng
dc.subjectGDP per capitaeng
dc.subjectpopulationeng
dc.subjectscalingeng
dc.subjecthurricane losseng
dc.subject.ddc500eng
dc.titleComment on 'High-income does not protect against hurricane losses'eng
dc.typearticleeng
dc.typeTexteng
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journalTitleEnvironmental Research Letterseng
tib.accessRightsopenAccesseng
wgl.contributorPIKeng
wgl.subjectUmweltwissenschafteneng
wgl.typeZeitschriftenartikeleng
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