Natural disaster risk is emerging as an increasingly important constraint on economic development and poverty reduction. This paper first sets out the key stylized facts in the area-that the costs of disaster have been increasing, seem set to continue to increase, and bear especially heavily on...

The importance of experts from public and private sector participation in the process of elaboration and implementation of protective measures should be understood through the need to ensure awareness by all stakeholders of tasks and duties assigned to them, during and after solving emergency...

The empirical literature on the relationship between natural disaster risk and investment in education is inconclusive. Model averaging methods in a framework of cross-country and panel regressions show an extremely robust negative partial correlation between secondary school enrollment and...