We show that drought-induced changes in the intensity of riots lead to moves towards democracy in sub-Saharan Africa …

optimal dynamic policy taking account of the threat of a drought. In particular, we show that the optimal pre-drought steady …This paper considers the problem of a water management authority faced with the threat of a drought that hits at an … uncertain date. Three management policies are investigated: i) a laissez-faire (open-access) policy of automatic adjustment …

with access to sanitation and hygiene. Finally, both direct and indirect risks associated with flood and drought on health …

current (same fiscal year) drought events have positive impacts on dairy farms' revenue and profit; this effect is most likely … attributable to drought-induced increases in the price of milk solids (New Zealand is the market maker in this global market). In … general, dairy farmers "benefit" more from drought events when compared to sheep/beef farms, whereas the latter sector has …

, unlike recurring droughts, a first-time exposure to a three-month severe drought reduces individuals' body mass index by 2 …

to unemployment dynamics in Australia is found to be much milder and substantially lower than that of monetary policy …We develop uncertainty indices for the United States and Australia based on freely accessible, real time Google Trends …

disasters is an influential input factor for integrated assessment models which are used to evaluate climate policy measures. In … on a panel of 153 countries over the period of 1960 to 2002 and employing a truly exogenous drought indicator derived …