-edge Handbook presents a timely analysis of the conditions that reduce or exacerbate disaster impacts. Addressing developments in … research on disaster economics, internationally recognized scholars explore the role of both the private and public sectors in … deeper into disaster economics, the Handbook then presents empirical methods and applications used in modelling disaster …

entrepreneurial behaviour in a spatial context, and links it to important new fields in economics such as endogenous growth theory …, the new economic geography and evolutionary theory. Although most of the literature to date has failed to study the …

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