The economics of natural disasters an Edward Elgar Research Review

This timely research review presents and discusses essential readings for those interested in the economics of natural disasters. It features analysis of influential articles on the macroeconomic and regional impacts of natural disasters, natural disaster vulnerability, resilience, recovery and adap...

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Main Author: Skidmore, Mark
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, UK Edward Elgar Publishing Limited c. 2017, 2017
Series:The international library of critical writings in economics
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505 0 |a The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and the Panic of 1907', Journal of Economic History, 64 (4), December, 1002-27 -- Claudio Raddatz (2007), 'Are External Shocks Responsible for the Instability of Output in Low-Income Countries?', Journal of Development Economics, 84 (1), September, 155-87 -- Michael R. Carter, Peter D. Little, Tewodaj Mogues and Workneh Negatu (2007), 'Poverty Traps and Natural Disasters in Ethiopia and Honduras', World Development, 35 (5), May, 835-56 -- Adam Rose, Juan Benavides, Stephanie E. Chang, Philip Szczesniak and Dongsoon Lim (1997), 'The Regional Economic Impact of an Earthquake: Direct and Indirect Effects of Electricity Lifeline Disruptions', Journal of Regional Science, 37 (3), August, 437-58 -- Stéphane Hallegatte (2008), 'An Adaptive Regional Input-Output Model and its Application to the Assessment of the Economic Cost of Katrina', Risk Analysis, 28 (3), June, 779-99 - 
505 0 |a Evidence from Earthquake Risks', Journal of Political Economy, 93 (2), April, 369-89 -- Howard Kunreuther (1996), 'Mitigating Disaster Losses through Insurance', Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Special Issue: The Stanford University Conference on Social Treatment of Catastrophic Risk, 12 (2-3), May, 171-87 -- Raymond J. Burby, Robert E. Deyle, David R. Godschalk and Robert B. Olshansky (2000), 'Creating Hazard Resilient Communities through Land-Use Planning', Natural Hazards Review, 1 (2), May, 99-106 -- Gary Yohe and Richard S.J. Tol (2002), 'Indicators for Social and Economic Coping Capacity - Moving toward a Working Definition of Adaptive Capacity', Global Environmental Change, 12 (1), April, 25-40 --  
505 0 |a Evidence from Hurricane Strikes in the Central American and Caribbean Regions', Journal of Development Economics, 97 (1), January, 130-41 -- Eduardo Cavallo, Sebastian Galiani, Ilan Noy and Juan Pantano (2013), 'Catastrophic Natural Disasters and Economic Growth', Review of Economics and Statistics, 95 (5), December, 1549-61 --  
505 0 |a Theory and Evidence from India', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117 (4), November, 1415-51 -- Nick Brooks, W. Neil Adger and P. Mick Kelly (2005), 'The Determinants of Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity at the National Level and the Implications for Adaptation', Global Environmental Change: Adaptation to Climate Change: Perspectives across Scales, 15 (2), July, 151-63 -- Raymond J. Burby (2006), 'Hurricane Katrina and the Paradoxes of Government Disaster Policy: Bringing About Wise Governmental Decisions for Hazardous Areas', Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 604 (1), March, 171-91 -- Andrew Healy and Neil Malhotra (2009), 'Myopic Voters and Natural Disaster Policy', American Political Science Review, 103 (3), 
505 0 |a The Role of Income, Geography, and Institutions', Review of Economics and Statistics, 87 (2), May, 271-84 -- Nejat Anbarci, Monica Escaleras and Charles A. Register (2005), 'Earthquake Fatalities: The Interaction of Nature and Political Economy', Journal of Public Economics, 89 (9-10), September, 1907-33 -- Eric Neumayer and Thomas Plümper (2007), 'The Gendered Nature of Natural Disasters: The Impact of Catastrophic Events on the Gender Gap in Life Expectancy, 1981-2002', Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 97 (3), February, 551-66 
505 0 |a A Case Study of New Orleans', Ecological Economics: Ecological Economics of Coastal Disasters-Coastal Disasters Special Section, 63 (2-3), August, 299-306 -- Derek K. Kellenberg and Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (2008), 'Does Rising Income Increase or Decrease Damage Risk from Natural Disasters?', Journal of Urban Economics, 63 (3), May, 788-802 -- P.A. Raschky (2008), 'Institutions and the Losses from Natural Disasters', Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 8 (4), July, 627-34 -- Roger A. Pielke Jr., Joel Gratz, Christopher W. Landsea, Douglas Collins, Mark A. Saunders and Rade Musulin (2008), 'Normalized Hurricane Damage in the United States: 1900-2005', Natural Hazards Review, 9 (1), February, 29-42 --  
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505 0 |a Coping Strategies and Policy Implications', World Development: Economic Crises, Natural Disasters, and Poverty, 31 (7), July, 1087-102 -- David R. Godschalk (2003), 'Urban Hazard Mitigation: Creating Resilient Cities', Natural Hazards Review, 4 (3), August, 136-43 -- Fanny Henriet, Stéphane Hallegatte and Lionel Tabourier (2012), 'Firm-Network Characteristics and Economic Robustness to Natural Disasters', Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 36 (1), January, 150-67 -- George Horwich (2000), 'Economic Lessons of the Kobe Earthquake', Economic Development and Cultural Change, 48 (3), April, 521-42 -- R.W. Kates, C.E. Colten, S. Laska and S.P. Leatherman (2006), 'Reconstruction of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina: A Research Perspective', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103 (40), October, 14653-60 
505 0 |a The Economic Impact of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake', Journal of Economic History, 69 (2), June, 466-99 -- Mark Skidmore and Hideki Toya (2013), 'Natural Disaster Impacts and Fiscal Decentralization', Land Economics, 89 (1), February, 101-17 -- Richard Hornbeck and Suresh Naidu (2014), 'When the Levee Breaks: Black Migration and Economic Development in the American South', American Economic Review, 104 (3), March, 963-90 -- Daniel P. Aldrich and Yasuyuki Sawada (2015), 'The Physical and Social Determinants of Mortality in the 3.11 Tsunami', Social Science and Medicine, 124, January, 66-75 -- Hideki Toya and Mark Skidmore (2015), 'Information/Communication Technology and Natural Disaster Vulnerability', Economics Letters, 137, December, 143-5 --  
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520 |a This timely research review presents and discusses essential readings for those interested in the economics of natural disasters. It features analysis of influential articles on the macroeconomic and regional impacts of natural disasters, natural disaster vulnerability, resilience, recovery and adaptation. Topics covered include short-run and long-run economic impacts, poverty and vulnerability, emerging life-saving technologies, the role of government in fostering resilience and adaptation in response to disasters. This detailed new review will be an invaluable source of reference for researchers and policymakers alike