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Disasters’ impacts on supply chains

Natural disasters affect supply chains in complex ways that traditional economic models at the sector level cannot capture. An agent-based model representing firm-to-firm interactions demonstrates that these interactions magnify the economic cost of disasters.

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Hallegatte, S. Disasters’ impacts on supply chains. Nat Sustain 2, 791–792 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0380-5

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