Urban Land Markets and Disasters: Floods in Argentina’s Cities
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چکیده
• The role played by the state as a land market regulator in urban areas with natural vulnerability to flooding; as a producer of urban land and housing; and as a builder of defenses against flooding. • Impacts on the land market of flooding and built defenses as well as access to urban land for different population sectors; land value increases and decreases in urban areas according to flooding potential and whether flooding conditions are masked. Impacts from the urban dynamics of population, productive activities, and the socio-occupational situations of inhabitants.
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