This paper reviews the empirical literature on the economic impacts of natural disasters to
inform both the modeling of potential future climate damages and climate adaptation policy …

Natural disasters are one of the major problems facing humankind. Natural disasters cause
deaths and injuries, property losses, social instability, resource shortages and economic …

The emerging emphasis on disaster risk reduction has broadened the range of experts
whose knowledge must be garnered to resolve complex socio‐technical challenges. This …

This research uses time‐series analysis under a quasi‐experimental pair‐wise matching
design to examine local economic impacts of the 1993 Midwest flood. The data support the …

This paper reviews the empirical literature on the economic impacts of natural disasters to
inform both climate adaptation policy and the estimation of potential climate damages. It …

We use data from the monthly Current Population Survey to examine the short-and longer-
term effects of Hurricane Katrina on the labor market outcomes of prime-age individuals in …

Problem, research strategy, and findings: Little research examines the effect of diversity on
regional economic resilience to natural disasters. We examine whether economic diversity …

Disasters produce winners and losers. This paper evaluates such winners and losers in a
spatial context. The hypothesis is that, because of severe damage to the core disaster area …

To investigate the general principle of the impact of tropical cyclones on employment,
explore the reason for the divergence among existing research conclusions, and put forward …

In this article, we focus on how household consumption responded to the Wenchuan
earthquake in China. Based on the data from 2007, 2008 and 2009 from the China Urban …