The chapter provides a methodology for measuring the cost-effectiveness of resilience to disasters. Whereas the vast majority of extant literature in the resilience field focuses on regional and community resilience, this work extends prior work by the authors on microeconomic (i.e., firm-level)...

This book presents essential advances in analytical frameworks and tools for modeling the spatial and economic impacts of disasters. In the wake of natural disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina, the Haiti Earthquake, and the East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, as well as major terrorist attacks,...

This paper develops an economic framework for analyzing and estimating the behavioral effects of disasters and their consequences for disaster losses. The reduction of these losses represents some of the benefits of pre-disaster mitigation and post-disaster recovery. We provide definitions,...