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 … magnitude. We first evaluate the three main sources quantifying risk in the region: EMDAT, Desinventar, and PCRAFI. We describe …

Many ex ante measures taken to reduce disaster risk can deliver co-benefits that are not dependent on disasters … to the main objective of disaster risk management of avoiding disaster losses, but identifying and measuring additional … co-benefits can enhance the attractiveness of disaster risk management investments. Co-benefits are often economic, such …

Vulnerability drives disaster law—defining its successes and illustrating its failures. Although understanding … vulnerability is critical to disaster law and scholarship, the literature lacks both an overarching analysis of the different … aspects of vulnerability and a nuanced examination of the factors that shape disaster outcomes. This paper attempts to fill …

of disaster and war for purposes of justifying exceptions to ordinary constitutional and democratic norms is particularly … might be warranted in cases of thinking enemies in times of war are invoked in disaster scenarios lacking such thinking … disaggregating dissimilar forms of emergencies and removing the rhetoric of war from disaster decisionmaking can the government make …