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Human-Driven Disasters: Violent Conflict, Terrorism and Technology

Coletta, Nat J. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

The intended goal of this paper is to expand the IDB's current disaster policy in the area of human-driven disasters …. This paper explores and expands on the definition and scope of "human-driven" disasters in order to strengthen the policy … in its present area of "unexpected" disasters. This paper also discusses risk management financing instruments and …

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Planning and Financial Protection to Survive Disasters

Keipi, Kari; Tyson, Justin - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

While the occurrence of natural events can not be prevented, there is a possibility to reduce the vulnerability of … and mitigation measures into development plans and programs and (ii) financial protection, provided by the transferring of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009193811

Aid, catastrophes and the Samaritan's Dilemma

Raschky, Paul A.; Schwindt, Manijeh - 2008

This paper discusses the impact of foreign aid on the recipient country's preparedness against natural disasters. The …

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The overprotective parent: Bureaucratic agencies and natural hazard management

Raschky, Paul A. - 2007

Due to the public good character of protective measures against natural disasters events, their allocation is very …

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Estimating the effects of risk transfer mechanisms against floods in Europe and USA: A dynamic panel approach

Raschky, Paul A. - 2007

of societal risk transfer mechanisms mitigating the effects disasters. Dynamic panel estimates using growth data from a … impact of historical flood events on regional economic development. The application of GIS-data on the spatial distribution …

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Uncertainty of Governmental Relief and the Crowding out of Insurance

Raschky, Paul A.; Schwarze, Reimund; Schwindt, Manijeh; … - 2010

This paper discusses the problem of crowding out of insurance by co-existing governmental relief programs - so-called 'charity hazard' - in a context of different institutional schemes of governmental relief in Austria and Germany. We test empirically whether an assured partial relief scheme (as...

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Natural Hazards Insurance in Europe ? Tailored Responses to Climate Change Needed

Schwarze, Reimund; Wagner, Gert G. - 2009

growing number of natural disasters. Using the case of Germany as an example, the paper demonstrates that the obstacles facing …

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Covering the Cost of the Past: Disaster Management in the Most Typhoon-Affected Region in the Philippines

Jovita, Hazel; Mutiarin, Dyah; Nurmandi, Achmad - In: International Journal of Disaster Response and … 1 (2018) 2, pp. 49-63

This is a quantitative article which aims to analyse what constitutes successful disaster governance by measuring how the previous performance of the disaster management network influence the aspects of governance process -initial agreement, leadership, trust, planning and managing conflict and...

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Do Natural Hazards Cause International Migration?

Gröschl, Jasmin; Steinwachs, Thomas - 2016

The estimated amount of people affected by natural hazards stands at a staggering number of about 243 million people per year. While not all of the affected move across borders, international migration potentially provides an adaptation mechanism to natural hazards. The aim of this paper is to...

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Risk perception of climate change: Empirical evidence for Germany

Frondel, Manuel; Simora, Michael; Sommer, Stephan - 2017

The perception of risks associated with climate change appears to be a key factor for the support of climate policy measures. Using a generalized ordered logit approach and drawing on a unique data set originating from two surveys conducted in 2012 and 2014, each among more than 6,000 German...

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