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Reflections on the current debate on how to link flood insurance and disaster risk reduction in the European Union

Surminski, S.; Aerts, Jeroen C. J. H.; Botzen, W. J. Wouter - 2015

Flood insurance differs widely in scope and form across Europe. Against the backdrop of rising flood losses a debate about the role of EU policy in shaping the future of this compensation tool is led by policy makers and industry. In this paper we investigate if and how current EU policies...

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Global increase in climate-related disasters

Thomas, Vinod; López, Ramón - 2015

side and anthropogenic climate change on the other? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising … intense climate-related natural disasters. In a regression analysis within a model of disaster risk determination for 1971 … implication is that climate mitigation and climate adaptation should form part of actions for disaster risk reduction. …

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Droughts and corruption

Wenzel, Daniela - 2018

Natural disasters are a challenge for good governance - this is the result of recent research investigating the effects of natural disasters on one important antagonistic force to good governance, public corruption. However, a specific analysis of droughts is so far neglected in this young...

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Natural disaster risk and the distributional dynamics of damages

Coronese, Matteo; Lamperti, Francesco; Chiaromonte, … - 2018

Literature on climate change and extreme events has found conflicting and often weak results on the evolution of economic damages related to natural disasters, although climate change is likely to bring about an increase in their magnitude (Van Aalst, 2006; IPCC, 2007, 2012). These studies usually...

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The economic and fiscal burdens of disasters in the Pacific

Noy, Ilan; Edmonds, Christopher M. - 2016

The Pacific Islands face the highest disaster risk, in per capita terms, globally. Examples of catastrophic events in … analysing the applicability of various financial instruments to facilitate both ex-ante and ex-post disaster risk management in …

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The ethical content of the economic analysis of disasters : price gouging and post-disaster recovery

Noy, Ilan; Noy, Shakked - 2016

research on the topic of disasters. As such, we choose to focus on two topics: price gouging, and post-disaster economic …

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Disaster (over-)insurance : the long-term financial and socioeconomic consequences of Hurricane Katrina

Bleemer, Zachary; Klaauw, Wilbert van der - 2017

Federal disaster insurance - in the form of national flood insurance, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA …

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Natural disaster shocks and macroeconomic growth in Asia : evidence for typhoons and droughts

Alano, Emmanuel; Lee, Minsoo - 2016

Climate-related natural disaster shocks are expected to rise as the earth is getting warmer, which will adversely … of development gains and exacerbate inequality. To cope with increasing disaster risks, both short-term adaptation … strategies like relocation, government transfers, and other social safety nets, as well as long-term strategies like disaster …

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Measurement of economic welfare risk and resilience of the Philippine regions

Yonson, Rio; Noy, Ilan - 2018

effectively addressed. Overall, the results indicate that reduction of adverse disaster impacts, including welfare losses, and …

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We need land first : identifying local needs for sustainable recovery after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal

He, Lulu - 2018

The aim of this study is to identify needs for recovery from people's perspectives under a localized context following the 2015 earthquake in Nepal. A qualitative approach was applied to collecting and processing data which consist of 114 semi-structured interviews with earthquake-resettled...

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