political-economic conditions within the context of vulnerability to contend that disasters are consequences of unresolved …Literature on natural hazards typically perceives disasters to be acts of God (or nature) while restricting the … that disasters are socially constructed and, second, it situates the interactions of large-scale natural forces with local …

Natural disaster risk is emerging as an increasingly important constraint on economic development and poverty reduction …

The study uses commune fixed-effect regressions to estimate the effect of natural disasters on welfare and poverty of … resilience of households to natural disasters. We find that all the three disaster types considered in this study including … remittances and social allowances can help households strengthen the resilience to natural disasters. Households in communes with …

purchase in an amount of SDR 103.35 million under the IMF’s policy for emergency assistance related to natural disasters. In …

Each year natural disasters affect about 200 million people and cause about $50 billion in damage. This paper compares … the incidence of natural disasters across countries along several dimensions and finds that the relative costs tend to be … disasters are found to have had a discernible macroeconomic impact, including large effects on fiscal and external balances …

The study uses commune fixed-effects regressions to estimate the effect of natural disasters on welfare and poverty of … resilience of households to natural disasters. We find that all the three disaster types considered in this study including … mean expenditure and more equal expenditure distribution are more resilient to natural disasters. Access to micro …

facilitate the systematic analysis of the underlying vulnerability drivers, a tourism disaster vulnerability framework was … dimensions. Probably, the most critical vulnerability driver is the lack of private sector investment in disaster risk reduction …

This article examines the process by which vulnerability analysis takes place at the state level for State Hazard … and Policy Development at the University of Louisville are described, followed by a brief discussion on issues and … challenges. A key finding in this article is the need to understand the impact and role of vulnerability analysis on planning and …