The authors analyze the determinants of fatalities in 2,194 large flood events in 108 countries between 1985 and 2008 …. Given that socioeconomic factors can affect mortality right in the aftermath of a flood, but also indirectly by influencing … flood frequency and magnitude, they distinguish between direct and indirect effects of development on flood mortality. The …

modeling, this paper constructs novel damage indices at the district level for Indonesia, for different disaster events such as … floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and the 2004 Christmas Tsunami. Ex ante, prior to the incidence of a disaster … the subnational governments. Ex post, or after the incidence of a natural disaster, damage indices are useful for quickly …

. Although the potential utility of mangroves in disaster risk reduction is increasingly recognized by coastal managers …

When a natural disaster destroys public capital, these direct losses are exacerbated by indirect losses arising from … examine sovereign disaster risk insurance, increased taxation, and budget reallocation as alternative financing mechanisms for …

account. The changes of interest are those that would take place under a given sovereign disaster risk financing and insurance …

disaster." However these assessments are based on different methodologies and approaches, and they often reach different … results. Besides methodological differences, these discrepancies are due to the multi-dimensionality in disaster impacts and … disaster, and emphasizes the most important mechanisms that explain and determine this cost. It does so by first explaining why …

and productivity. Many poor families have considered relocation to flood-free areas, but they lack the financial resources …