probability of disaster occurrence to decrease with income; (ii) the capital at risk - and thus the economic losses in case of … disaster - to increase faster than economic growth; (iii) the average annual losses to grow faster than income at low levels of … observation of a trend in disaster losses should not be confused with the presence of excessive risk taking. In a descriptive …

limited share of total losses but a large shock for poor households. The analysis also demonstrates that adaptation could … shown by the survey, the marginalized population has little access to financial support in disaster aftermaths, and …

Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper … main measure of disaster severity. Using a new, agent-based model that represents explicitly the recovery and … reconstruction process at the household level, this risk assessment provides new insights into disaster risks in the Philippines …

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 …

plains), this paper shows that rapid development in these areas-and the resulting increase in disaster losses-may be the … consequence of a rational and well-informed trade-off between lower disaster losses and higher productivity. With disasters … possibly becoming less frequent but increasingly destructive in the future, average disaster losses may grow faster than wealth …

disaster. It represents explicitly production bottlenecks, models a flexibility in production capacity in case of scarcity, and …

lives per year, avoid between 460 million and 2.7 billion Euros of disaster asset losses per year, and produce between 3 …