Legal preparedness for disaster consists of implementing the optimal portfolio of rules for managing catastrophic risks …. This article extends the simpler model of modern disaster theory, "http://ssrn.com/abstract=1910669" http …://ssrn.com/abstract=1910669, into a more ambitious model of postmodern disaster theory. A complete account of disaster law and policy based on an …

-edge Handbook presents a timely analysis of the conditions that reduce or exacerbate disaster impacts. Addressing developments in … research on disaster economics, internationally recognized scholars explore the role of both the private and public sectors in … deeper into disaster economics, the Handbook then presents empirical methods and applications used in modelling disaster …

This paper incorporates the dividend recovery feature into the variable disaster model of Gabaix (2012). The recovery …

: precautionary efforts (made ex ante), relief efforts (made in the immediate aftermath of a disaster), and recovery efforts (made ex …

tackle rare disaster events. This framework integrates importance sampling with the reinforcement learning algorithm. Instead …