and climate change, economics, and politics. Unless we are better able to address these concerns, they will lead to …

and climate change, economics, and politics. Unless we are better able to address these concerns, they will lead to …

Natural disaster risk is emerging as an increasingly important constraint on economic development and poverty reduction …. This paper first sets out the key stylized facts in the area-that the costs of disaster have been increasing, seem set to … dealing with disaster risk. Key sources of market failure include the difficulty of risk spreading and, perhaps even more …

extremes. The paper starts with the hypothesis that deficits in health in the event of a disaster may overlap with deficits in … achieved and ascribed social status at the time of the disaster event. To test this hypothesis, the paper draws upon a rich …, and asset ownership), vis-à-vis severity of disaster exposure, in affecting disease incidences are then analyzed, taking …

disaster planners and policy makers select mitigation and adaptation measures a priority. The Coastal Cities at Risk (CCaR …

Disasters are unpredictable events that have catastrophic impacts. There is now a focus on disaster resilience and … capacity building in the recovery of the community. Resilience literature also suggests a staged model of disaster impacts and … place-specific differentiation in the mean intensity of both cohesion and resilience scores; temporal phases of disaster …

, we do not find a statistically significant nation-wide drop in happiness after the disaster of 11 March 2011, but we … disaster. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 …

slow but significant changing trend can be identified. To test this hypothesis, the paper uses the present disaster …