This article examines the impact of scope of disaster and political responsiveness in presidential decisions for the period from 1953 to 2009 (Eisenhower to Obama). Where my previous research focused on individual-level gubernatorial and presidential choice, this analysis explores the effects of...

The purpose of this book is to explore the ways that industries, under the pressures of global competition, balance sustained industrial competitiveness and robustness against major disasters. The book focuses mainly on the impact of disasters on supply chains for manufactured (mainly tradable)...

1. Introduction -- 2. The What, How, and Why of Bottom-up Rebuilding and Recovery after Natural Disasters -- 3. Nonviolent Action -- 4. The Private Sector's Contribution to Natural Disaster Response -- 5. Formation of Public-Private Partnerships by Local Emergency Managers -- 6. Children Take...

Natural hazard-induced disasters (NHID), such as floods, droughts, severe storms, and animal pests and diseases have significant, widespread and long-lasting impacts on agricultural sectors around the world. With climate change set to amplify many of these impacts, a “business-as-usual”...

Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Setting the scene: a guide to this volume -- Reporting, frequency, and correlates of disasters -- Providing compensation to survivors of disasters -- Hurricanes -- Floods and their consequences -- Tornadoes -- Drought and other risks to agriculture --...

Despite escalating disaster losses and predicted increases in weather-related catastrophes, takeup of protective technologies and behaviors appears limited by myopia, externalities, and other factors. One response to such frictions is to mandate adaptive investment. We measure the effect of...