Die Hochwasserkatastrophe an Elbe und Mulde im Herbst 2002 hat es schlagartig ins allgemeine Bewusstsein gebracht: Selbst in unserer hoch entwickelten, modernen Dienstleistungsgesellschaft sind katastrophenaffine Risiken vorhanden, die ganz erhebliche räumliche Dimensionen besitzen und für die...

The report provides a first theoretical setting on the concept of vulnerability, vulnerability assessment and indicators in order to identify and evaluate relevant assessment measures for the CLUVA project. It describes a set of identified indicators which serves as a starting point for...

The rare disaster hypothesis suggests that the extraordinarily high postwar U.S. equity premium resulted because investors ex ante demanded compensations for unlikely but calamitous risks that they happened not to incur. While convincing in theory, empirical tests of the rare disaster...