"Featuring real world examples of how risk information affects public choices, The Economics of Environmental Risk … by officials providing information on risk and designing policies for managing them. Further consideration is also given … public policy, risk analysis and environmental and resource economics will value the useful examples found in this …

1. The disaster cycle -- 2. Hurricane Katrina : a classic natural disaster -- 3. The first World War -- 4. The Great …A crisis is a period of uncertainty that may or may not lead to disaster, depending in part on the capacity of actors … Eurozone upheavals this timely book argues that the disaster cycle - a framework normally used in the context of natural …

Economic Review, 42, 583-92 -- Timothy J. Goodspeed and Andrew Haughwout (2007), 'On the Optimal Design of Disaster Insurance …

-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 … disasters on economic activity, including the behavioral consequences, biases and heuristics, and risk preferences. Delving …

with climate risk: the options / D. Castells-Quintana, M. Lopez-Uribe and T. Mcdermott -- 5. Locking in climate … questions, climate risk has to be embedded fully into wider development strategies. This point of view is gaining in prominence …