reduce flood losses in each country. It shows that considering asset losses is insufficient to assess disaster risk … capacity to mitigate the impact of disaster-related asset losses on welfare, and a tool to help decision makers identify the …-level socioeconomic resilience. Because floods disproportionally affect poor people, each $1 of global flood asset loss is equivalent to a …

-day and future flood and drought hazard maps. The paper defines and calculates a ?poverty exposure bias? and finds support …

. 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 …

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 …

population and poor people in particular to current and future flooding at the country level, using new high-resolution flood … hazard maps and spatial socioeconomic data. The paper also examines flood exposure and poverty at the local level within Ho … flood, which occurs once every 25 years, assuming no protection. For the same return period flood under current …