The United Nations Sendai (2015) framework aims to reduce disaster risk. We offer a careful definition and computation …

-edge Handbook presents a timely analysis of the conditions that reduce or exacerbate disaster impacts. Addressing developments in … research on disaster economics, internationally recognized scholars explore the role of both the private and public sectors in … deeper into disaster economics, the Handbook then presents empirical methods and applications used in modelling disaster …

mechanisms by studying the feedback loops governing complex systems connected to the disaster insurance mechanism. Instead of … addressing the disaster's underlying risk, the traditional disaster insurance strategy largely focuses on providing financial … security for asset recovery after a disaster. This constraint becomes especially concerning as the threat of climate …

natural disasters are shared internationally to a generally very limited extent. This finding of home bias in disaster risk … international sharing of disaster risk. For advanced economies, a lack of international risk-sharing is correlated with a lack of … room to manoeuvre to do so. At high levels of public debt, a lack of ex ante insurance can turn disaster risk into …