Asia and the Pacific? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising population exposure, greater …. In a regression analysis within a model of disaster risk determination, the most significant association is between the …

and after the 2016 earthquake series. Similar to studies using the nighttime radiance to monitor disaster recovery and …This study presents a gender-specific assessment of medium-term disaster recovery following a series of earthquakes in … from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite instrument, distance from the earthquake epicenters collected from the …

Many ex ante measures taken to reduce disaster risk can deliver co-benefits that are not dependent on disasters … to the main objective of disaster risk management of avoiding disaster losses, but identifying and measuring additional … co-benefits can enhance the attractiveness of disaster risk management investments. Co-benefits are often economic, such …

We provide the planner's solution to a model where households learn from exogenous natural disaster arrivals about … since disaster leads to pessimistic arrival-rate beliefs and taxes or mandates to fund mitigation, which reduce consumption …

Why aren’t we investing more in disaster resilience, despite the rising costs of disaster events? This book argues that … disasters, and perceive the return on investment as uncertain - only realised if a somewhat unlikely disaster event actually … beyond only avoided losses (the first dividend) to the wider benefits gained independently of whether or not the disaster …