In March 2015, a new international blueprint for disaster risk reduction (DRR) has been adopted in Sendai, Japan, at … the end of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR, March 14 - 18, 2015). We review and discuss …

main disaster data sources available, discusses the determinants of the direct effects of disasters, and distinguishes …

better define the geographic area hit by the disaster. We examine two large-scale earthquakes that occurred in two different …

affected areas. Such heterogeneous patterns mainly originate from a stark contrast in post-disaster reconstruction processes …

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 …

In this paper, we introduce a new applicable tool to evaluate any post-natural disaster and its impact on people losses … and damage, the new applicable tool is entitled “the post-natural disaster people losses and damage simulator (Ḧ …-Simulator).” Subsequently, the Ḧ-Simulator works under the application of five indicators such as (i) the post-natural disaster people losses …