The climate is changing, bringing with it increasing natural disasters around the world. The progress of societies lies in their ability to adapt to the new climatic conditions. Effective climate-adaptation strategies must be based in the sound analysis of the costs of the disasters, as well as the potential benefits and beneficiaries of adaptation strategies. This book offers an appraisal method to capture the total economic costs of flooding events: the Multiregional Flood Footprint Analysis. It captures the economic costs directly caused by physical destruction, and disruptive implications in production propagated through inter-industrial linkages in the current context of a global economy. The proposed method uses the fundamentals of the Input-Output analysis (IOA) in a multiregional dimension. It concludes that damages from natural disasters in one part of the globe may affect many economic sectors in the rest of the world, increasing the need for global adaptation strategies.

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David Mendoza Tinoco is a full time Professor and Researcher at the Faculty of Economics of the Autonomous University of Coahuila, Mexico. He holds a PhD in Ecological Economics from The University of East Anglia, with postgraduate studies at The University of Leeds, UK. And a master's degree in economics from The College of Mexico, Mexico. He is member of the International Society of Ecological Economics, the International Input-Output Association, and the Mexican National System of Researchers. He specialises in input-output modelling, adaptation and mitigation strategies, and alternative approaches for sustainable development. He has collaborated as a Researcher for institutions such as the Mexican Ministry of Economics, the Programme of Economic Analysis of Mexico at The College of Mexico, the European Commission, and the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

Alfonso Mercado-Garcia is a full time Professor and Researcher at the Programme of Interdisciplinary Studies of El Colegio de Mexico. He was the Coordinator of the Programme of Economic Analysis of Mexico , in 2014-2022 and the Coordinator of the Programme for Science, Technology and Development in 2007-2014, at El Colegio de Mexico. He also was a full-time professor and researcher for the Centre of Economic Studies at El Colegio de Mexico in 1973-2020. He holds two Master Degrees in Economics from El Colegio de Mexico and from Sussex University. His research areas are: a) environmental economics; b) Industrial policy in developing economies, and c) International economics, with emphasis on foreign direct investment (FDI) and its externalities.

Professor Dabo Guan is a Distinguished Professor at Tsinghua University, China, and Chair of Climate Change Economics at the University College London, UK. He is the Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences, UK. He specialises in environmental economics for international climate changemitigation, climate change adaptation, scenario analysis on environmental impacts, water resources accounting and management, input-output modelling and their applications in both developed and developing countries. He is the chief expert in coordinating China-EU Flagship Cooperation Programme on Climate Change and Biodiversity. He was a Lead Author for the IPCC AR5. He was the Highly Cited Researcher for 2018-2022, top thousand climate academics (rank 389 in 2020). He has authored over 260+ publications, including 60+ articles published Nature, Nature Research Journals, and PNAS. He received the PNAS Cozzarelli Prize 2014, the Leontief Prize 3 times and the Philip Leverhulme Prize. His paper about climate change impact on beer consumption received the 2018 Altimetric Top 100 award.