Over the past decades, Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced a significant increase in natural disasters …. Understanding the patterns in recovery time after disasters is key to designing accurate responses to natural hazards. In this paper …, as a case study to understand the recovery paths following such disasters. We rely on nighttime lights data to capture …

Not very. We find that weather disasters over the last quarter century had insignificant or small effects on U.S. banks …' performance. This stability seems endogenous rather than a mere reflection of federal aid. Disasters increase loan demand, which … common than official flood maps would predict, suggesting that local knowledge may also mitigate disaster impacts. …

Natural disasters are on the rise worldwide. There are more and more intense natural disasters - which are defined to … as well as droughts and heat waves. The Asia and the Pacific region has experienced some of the most damaging disasters … variable and more extreme. Is there a relationship between these changes in climate and the increase in natural disasters in …

Since the 1990s, efforts have been made to reduce the damage caused by natural disasters, among which the Disaster … established as an important model for Korea's disaster risk reduction activities. …

come to permeate the legal and policy conversations on a wide variety of natural and technological disasters. This melding … of disaster and war for purposes of justifying exceptions to ordinary constitutional and democratic norms is particularly … apparent in governmental restrictions on the flow of its communications in disasters, as limitations on information flow that …

This paper evaluates the levels of risk of suffering a natural disaster or socio-economic-political disaster worldwide … levels between natural disasters and socio-economic-political disasters respectively. The same research paper proposes five … new indicators follow by: (i) the natural disasters vulnerability rate; (ii) the socio-economic-political disasters …