Climate change impacts threaten the stability of the US housing market. In response to
growing concerns that increasing costs of flooding are not fully captured in property values …

Public attitudes toward climate change influence climate and energy policies and guide
individual mitigation and adaptation behaviors. Over the last decade, as scientific certainty …

With near unanimity, climate scientists project natural disasters to increase in frequency,
severity, and geographic scope over the next century. We survey academic literature at the …

This paper exploits strict flood insurance coverage limits and staggered flood map updates
to show that mortgage lenders offload flood risk to the government through flood insurance …

This article reviews the literature on the economic impacts of disasters caused by extreme
weather and climate events to draw lessons on how societies can better manage these risks …

Sea level rise is a major threat to economic development. Nearly one billion people live in
low-elevation coastal zones with direct exposure to coastal catastrophe (IPCC 2019). In …

Nature-based solutions (NbS) are a cornerstone of climate change adaptation worldwide.
Yet, evidence on their economic benefits is scarce, especially since the provided …

Rapidly improving data and models are giving homeowners more information about their
disaster risk while also increasing insurance premiums for the highest risk homes. In this …

There is growing evidence that physical climate hazards—such as floods and wildfires—
affect property prices. Climate change scenarios suggest more frequent and severe physical …

This paper examines the impact of two nationwide reforms to the National Flood Insurance
Program on both flood insurance and property markets. The 2012 and 2014 reforms aimed …