Exogenous, non-normative shocks to small businesses such as natural disasters have been
understudied. Moreover, most disaster research on small businesses has focused on …

The study examined the roles of tourists' risk beliefs, connectedness, hurricane knowledge,
and their past experiences with hurricane impacts in relation to their information seeking …

Y amamura E. Effects of interactions among social capital, income and learning from
experiences of natural disasters: a case study from Japan, Regional Studies. This paper …

In this study, we implement a set of probit models to analyze the determinants of household
hurricane evacuation choice for a sample of 1,355 households in Florida. This article …

This paper reexamines the link between disasters and crime to argue that the relationship
between the two becomes more evident once the diachronic nature of the disaster is …

Natural disasters are one of the main channels through which ecological and socio-
economic systems interact. In particular, the severe impacts of earthquakes could disrupt …

For decades, economists have examined the myriad variables that affect real estate value,
from individual house characteristics to neighborhood amenities. Yet one variable, weather …

At first blush, disaster relief belongs to a class of problems ill suited for private market
solution. It seems obvious that coordinated emergency responses on a scale and scope far …

Global climate change and rising sea levels are impacting the sustainability and vitality of
coastal communities, making identifying vulnerable areas particularly important to minimize …

We investigate the effect of hurricane strikes on housing prices in US coastal cities. To this
end, we construct a new index of hurricane destruction which varies over time and space …