Using an economic model to assess welfare risk and resilience to disasters, this paper systematically tackles the … resilience to riverine flood disasters and what will be their measured benefit? We study the 18 regions of the Philippines to … questions: 1) How much asset and welfare risks does each region in the Philippines face from riverine flood disasters? 2) How …

such, economists have not really attempted to define the concept of disasters very carefully, nor have they evaluated the … ethics that are behind the economic analysis of disasters. Given this absence, we believe that a better understanding of the … ways in which the discipline approaches the topic of disasters and its ethics is gained not by examining the multitude of …

International humanitarian aid is pivotal in the response to natural disasters suffered by low-and middle … political leaders and the geographic distribution of ethnic groups within countries with high numbers of natural disasters … Disaster Assistance (OFDA) disburses larger amounts of aid when natural disasters affect the birth region of the countries …

variability in the weather and the increase in the number of extreme weather disasters associated with climate change. The … objective of this paper is to examine the inter-linkages between weather, disasters, and migration, in India. To examine the … development are more likely to face out-migration driven by weather variations and disasters. Internal migration is seasonal …

. Uncertainty about the future rate of growth of the economy and emissions and the risk of macroeconomic disasters (tail risks) also …

Forced displacement as a consequence of wars, civil conflicts, or natural disasters does not only have contemporaneous …

Using a rich data set on the EU regions, we analyze the relevance of two possible determinants of a region’s resilience … that started in 2008, as our shock and then analyze how the NUTS II EU regions differ in their resilience to the crisis in … their resilience to shocks but it typically remains unclear as to why regions differ in this respect. For the 2008- 2012 …