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When a disaster strikes, it not only affects households' physical assets, but also their income levels and ability to … external assistance to accelerate reconstruction efforts. This report explores the links between disaster impacts and poverty …
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Hydraulic fracturing has been the subject of much debate recently, both in the United States and increasingly in Europe. Advances in hydraulic fracturing technology have led to a shale gas boom in the United States, significantly lowering natural gas prices, and causing some foreign businesses...
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Like other network industries, the European gas supply industry has been liberalised, along the lines of what has been done in the United Kingdom and the United States, by opening up to competition the upstream and downstream segments of essential transmission infrastructure. The aim of this...
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Flood insurance differs widely in scope and form across Europe. Against the backdrop of rising flood losses a debate about the role of EU policy in shaping the future of this compensation tool is led by policy makers and industry. In this paper we investigate if and how current EU policies...
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authorities and agencies and/or public authorities and civil society for disaster risk reduction. We pay attention to Public …-based natural resource management (CBNRM) and disaster risk reduction (CBDRR), as well as other cooperative initiatives. In many …. The analysis is complemented by examples of PuPs addressed in the ENHANCE case studies in which disaster risk reduction …
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This volume was prepared by Thomas Steinwachs while he was working at the ifo Center for International Economics. It was completed in September 2018 and accepted as a doctoral dissertation by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich (LMU). It is a collection of four self-contained...
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-2019. Employing spatial econo-metric methods, we find that experiencing a severe disaster leads to an increase in net out-migration of … in those regions to out-migrate. For less severe disaster events, we find no conclusive evidence that disasters are …
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