This paper examines the relationship between the media coverage of a major natural disaster and charitable giving for disaster relief. In particular, it is centrally concerned with three questions: first, whether media coverage of Cyclone Nargis in May 2008 is correlated with charitable giving...

Few studies have attempted to investigate the link between poverty and vulnerability with respect to natural disasters. By applying a utility model to panel data from Indonesia that brackets a major forest fire, this paper estimates and analyzes households’ vulnerability in both total...