main disaster data sources available, discusses the determinants of the direct effects of disasters, and distinguishes …

disasters has affected corruption within the public sector. There are a number of new findings from this study. (1) Disaster …, frequency of occurrence of disaster plays important role on increasing corruption. This suggests that foreseeable disasters … increase corruption. In developed countries, people have an incentive to live within disaster-prone areas to seek compensation. …

In March 2015, a new international blueprint for disaster risk reduction (DRR) has been adopted in Sendai, Japan, at … the end of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR, March 14 - 18, 2015). We review and discuss …

side and anthropogenic climate change on the other? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising … intense climate-related natural disasters. In a regression analysis within a model of disaster risk determination for 1971 … implication is that climate mitigation and climate adaptation should form part of actions for disaster risk reduction. …

side and anthropogenic climate change on the other? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors — rising … intense climate-related natural disasters.In a regression analysis within a model of disaster risk determination for 1971 … implication is that climate mitigation and climate adaptation should form part of actions for disaster risk reduction …

endogeneity of disaster damage, I exploit instrumental variables constructed from meteorological data on hurricanes. Instrumental … variables estimates indicate that disaster damages lead to increases in national-level net inflows of migrants' remittances …. The null hypothesis of full insurance of hurricane disaster damages cannot be rejected. By contrast, ordinary least …

average. We find that countries that have in place disaster preparedness mechanisms and lower public debt have lower … probability of witnessing a significant drop in growth as a consequence of a natural disaster, but our innovative methodology in … this paper finds that the two policies are complements since their effectiveness vary across different disaster scenarios …