Thomas McDermott

Lecturer in the Economics of Climate Change and Development at NUI Galway; Visiting Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute, LSE

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Tom McDermott is a Lecturer in the Economics of Climate and Development at the National University of Ireland Galway, and a Visiting Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute, LSE. His research interests are at the intersection of development and environmental economics. In particular, his research focuses on the economic impacts of extreme weather events and on adaptation to climate change.

Recent work by Thomas McDermott

Flooding and urban adaptation

Economic activity tends not to relocate away from the most vulnerable locations, but aid for reconstruction could be used to encourage this to happen

Articles : Infrastructure & Urbanisation

Adriana Kocornik-Mina Thomas McDermott Guy Michaels Ferdinand Rauch

Published 06.05.16
Floods and the location of economic activity

Economic activity is concentrated in low-lying urban areas despite greater risk of flooding, and tends to return to these areas rather than relocating

Articles : Infrastructure & Urbanisation

Adriana Kocornik-Mina Thomas McDermott Guy Michaels Ferdinand Rauch

Published 21.01.16

Thomas McDermott

Recent work by Thomas McDermott

Flooding and urban adaptation

Floods and the location of economic activity