In a world of increasingly integrated supply chains, disasters have impacts far from where they hit. A new paper looks at how tropical-cyclone impacts propagate across cities, showing that indirect impacts become large for the most-destructive storms.
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Hallegatte, S. Storm damages and inter-city trade. Nat Sustain 3, 577–578 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-0524-7
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