-attributed flood impacts. Here, we use climate change attribution science paired with hydrological flood models to estimate climate … change-attributed flood depths and damages during Hurricane Harvey in Harris County, Texas. We then combine this information …

Using an economic model to assess welfare risk and resilience to disasters, this paper systematically tackles the … questions: 1) How much asset and welfare risks does each region in the Philippines face from riverine flood disasters? 2) How … resilient is each region to riverine flood disasters? and 3) What are the available interventions per region to strengthen …

The Pacific Islands face the highest disaster risk, in per capita terms, globally. Examples of catastrophic events in … analysing the applicability of various financial instruments to facilitate both ex-ante and ex-post disaster risk management in … magnitude. We first evaluate the three main sources quantifying risk in the region: EMDAT, Desinventar, and PCRAFI. We describe …

This paper studies whether private adaptation to flood risk is economically efficient. We estimate the return to … the universe of houses and flood damages in high-risk flood zones in the Atlantic and Gulf Coast United States. We find … that undertaking adaptation is socially optimal in the highest risk areas over a house's lifetime, but that individual …

disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation in Bangladesh, a country with a very high exposure to weather risk. We use a … comprehensive dataset for the 483 subdistricts (Upazilas) in Bangladesh, tracking disaster risk reduction and adaptation funding … allocation decisions. We find that flood hazard risk and socio-economic vulnerability are both positively correlated with the sub …

of natural disaster insurance in adapting to climate change. This chapter reviews current challenges in both public and … private natural disaster insurance markets in the United States and how the nature of these challenges has changed over the … complicate both the supply of and demand for natural disaster insurance, with spillovers to related markets such as real estate …

In 2011, Thailand experienced its worst flood ever. Using repeated waves of the Thai Household Survey, we analyse the … flood's economic impacts. In 2012, households answered a set of questions on the extent of flooding they experienced. We use … this self-identified flood exposure, and external exposure indicators from satellite images, to identify both directly …