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 --...

Title page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 - Settinbg the Scene: A Guide to This Volume -- 2 - Reporting, Frequency, and Correlates of Disasters -- 3 - Providing Compensation to Survivors of Disasters -- 4 - Hurricanes -- 5 - Floods and Their Consequences -- 6 - Tornadoes --...

Tropical cyclones that make landfall on the coast of the USA are causing increasing economic losses. It is assumed that the losses are largely due to socio-economic developments, i.e. growing wealth and greater settlement of exposed areas. However, it is also thought that the rise in losses is...