. 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 …

after the 1998 flood. Ethiopian households that receive international remittances seem to rely more on cash reserves and … less on selling household assets or livestock to cope with drought. In Burkina Faso and Ghana, international remittance …