destruction' hypothesis proposed by the natural disaster literature. …

The standard approach to 'nowcast' disaster impacts, which relies on risk models, does not typically account for the … nowcasting, and for post-disaster damage assessment. We focus on Fiji and on its agriculture sector, and on tropical cyclones … be used for both nowcasting and post-disaster damage assessments. …

panel data, we show that rising climate-related disaster risks increase government debt and harm fiscal sustainability. We … also find that the adverse effect of disaster risks is larger for low-income households, exacerbating inequality. Second … distributional effect of disaster risk. The model features two kinds of households and a fiscal authority. We show that disaster risk …

This study presents a gender-specific assessment of medium-term disaster recovery following a series of earthquakes in … Indonesia's Central Statistics Bureau. We develop a novel index to represent women's welfare in the context of a disaster … and after the 2016 earthquake series. Similar to studies using the nighttime radiance to monitor disaster recovery and …

disaster evaluation, mitigation policies, and preventive measures against disaster impacts should be tailored to local …

on their loans than non-disaster firms. Floods reduce securitised credit in the local markets, suggesting that physical …

Background: This paper proposes a framework to cope with the lack of data at the time of a disaster by employing … predictive models. The framework can be used for disaster human impact assessment based on the socio-economic characteristics of … Data (PRED) is developed as a decision-making platform based on the Disaster Severity Analysis (DSA) Technique. Conclusions …