The Pacific Region is one of the most natural disaster prone regions on earth. The Pacific Island Countries (PICs) are … Climate and Disaster Risk Management. The country risk profiles integrate data collected and produced through risk modeling …

"Benefit-cost analyses of disaster risk reduction (DRR) projects are an important tool for evaluating the efficiency of …

"The author assesses empirically the relationship between natural disaster risk and investment in education. Although … enrollment and natural disaster risk. This result is exclusively driven by geological disasters. Natural disaster risk exposure …

temporary shock such as a natural disaster may leave permanent consequences for the economy. An obvious permanent effect of a … one-time disaster shock is that physical man-made and natural assets owned especially by poor households may end up … completely wiped out. The disaster may not be the direct cause; it may be that poor households would have to obtain minimum …