This article considers the impact of sea level rise and storm surge on the port cities of Maputo and Beira in … Mozambique. By combining a range of sea level rise scenarios for 2050 with the potential maximum storm surge level for the … current 100-year storm, we analyze permanently inundated lands and temporary flood zones. In Beira, our analysis finds that a …

We measure the longer-term effect of a major earthquake on the local economy, using night-time light intensity measured … process. We focus on the destructive Canterbury Earthquake Sequence (CES) 2010 -2011 as our case study. Uniquely for this … economic recovery after the earthquake, but delayed payments were less affective and cash settlement of claims were more …

the last decade or so, and not just the incumbents in 2002. The party in charge of the ministry responsible for earthquake …

the fourth largest recorded in the world. The scope of the disaster far exceeded that of the Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 …The Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011 was the biggest earthquake recorded in Japanese seismic history, and …. The repercussions of this disaster spread far beyond the geographical areas directly affected. For example, Electric power …

way the Munich Re dealt with the challenge of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. …

disaster. The opposition parties and one of the incumbent parties which participated in previous national governments and held … only a short time before the earthquakes and controlled almost none of the local administrations in the disaster zone. They … party in charge of the ministry responsible for disaster relief, and parties that controlled more of the city …

disaster. The opposition parties and one of the incumbent parties which participated in previous national governments and held … only a short time before the earthquakes and controlled almost none of the local administrations in the disaster zone. They … party in charge of the ministry responsible for disaster relief, and parties that controlled more of the city …

This paper studies the impact of the 1999 Colombian Earthquake on child nutrition and schooling. The identification … strategy combines household survey data with event data on the timing and location of the earthquake, exploiting the exogenous … exposure of children to the shock. The paper uniquely identifies both the short- and medium-term impacts of the earthquake …

Exploiting Tangshan 1976 - the deadliest earthquake in the 20th century - as a source of exogenous variation, we … estimate the long-run effect of a historical shock on contemporary socio-economic outcomes. Cohorts born after the earthquake …