The standard approach to 'nowcast' disaster impacts, which relies on risk models, does not typically account for the … nowcasting, and for post-disaster damage assessment. We focus on Fiji and on its agriculture sector, and on tropical cyclones … be used for both nowcasting and post-disaster damage assessments. …

choice of baseline and of the wind-speed elasticity of storm damage. -- climate change ; tropical storms ; economic impact …

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 …

to create fiscal space for disaster recovery. Different risk management strategies are compared to a baseline of no risk … management strategies considered are (i) adaptation investment in hurricane resilient infrastructure, (ii) commercial disaster …

effect of tropical storm frequency and severity on mortality using objective meteorological data and the universe of vital … statistics records from a large developing country, Mexico. Using a measure of storm exposure that accounts for both windspeed … dispersion and population density along the storm track, I project changes in past storm-related mortality under various …