This paper presents empirical evidence of the profound and long-term damages from adverse natural events on poverty. It analyzes 30 years of macro-level damage data from disasters (including earthquakes, floods, and storms), according to income groups, and shows that low-income countries incur...

The welfare impact of a disaster does not only depend on the physical characteristics of the event or its direct impacts in terms of lost lives and assets. Welfare impacts also depend on the ability of the economy to cope, recover, and reconstruct and therefore to minimize aggregate consumption...

Long-Term Transition of Population and National Land System -- Transformation Processes of National Land Systems and Reconstruction Policy from a Spatial Economics Perspective -- Process of Recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake with Pictures and Data -- Population Decline and Creative...

Transnational Economic Regions: Capturing an Illusive Phenomenon; Resurrecting the Rhine as an Economic Region; Energy Transition in the Rhine Region; Part I Regional Transformation: Energy Transition in the Rhine Region; 1 The Post-War Reconstruction and the Rise of Oil ; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2...