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The Economics of Natural Hazards
By: Howard Kunreuther (Editor), Adam Rose (Editor)
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Acknowledgements | p. ix |
Introduction | p. xiii |
Foundations | |
'Disaster and Recovery: The Black Death in Western Europe', RAND Corporation Memorandum RM-4700-TAB, February, 1-31 (1966) | p. 3 |
'Optimal Flood Damage Management: Retrospect and Prospect', in Allen V. Kneese and Stephen C. Smith (eds), Water Research, Chapter 12, Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, Inc., 251-69 (1966) | p. 34 |
'The Perception of Natural Hazards in Resource Management', Natural Resources Journal, 3, January, 412-41 (1964) | p. 53 |
'Losses from Natural Hazards', Land Economics, 46, 383-93 (1970) | p. 83 |
Risk Perception and Its Economic Impact | |
'Perception of Risk', Science, 236 (4799), 17 April, 280-85 (1987) | p. 97 |
'Defining Risk', Policy Sciences, 17, 123-39 (1984) | p. 103 |
'A Test of the Expected Utility Model: Evidence from Earthquake Risks', Journal of Political Economy, 93 (2), April, 369-89 (1985) | p. 120 |
'Earthquake and Volcano Hazard Notices: An Economic Evaluation of Changes in Risk Perceptions', Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 18 (1), January, 35-49 (1990) | p. 141 |
Direct Losses and the Distribution of Impacts | |
'Natural Hazard Exposures, Losses and Mitigation Costs in the United States 1970-2000', Transactions - Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, 72, 106-12 (1984) | p. 159 |
'Modeling the Regional Impact of Natural Disaster and Recovery: A General Framework and an Application to Hurricane Andrew', International Regional Science Review, 17 (2), 121-50 (1994) | p. 166 |
'Businesses and Disasters: Empirical Patterns and Unanswered Questions', Natural Hazards Review, 1, May, 83-90 (2000) | p. 196 |
'Lifelines and Livelihood: A Social Accounting Matrix Approach to Calamity Preparedness', Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 3 (4), December, 228-40 (1995) | p. 204 |
Regional and Economy-Wide Impacts | |
'Measuring the Regional Economic Effects of Earthquakes and Earthquake Predictions', Journal of Regional Science, 24 (4), November, 559-79 (1984) | p. 219 |
'The Regional Economic Impact of an Earthquake: Direct and Indirect Effects of Electricity Lifeline Disruptions', Journal of Regional Science, 37 (3), August, 437-58 (1997) | p. 240 |
'Integrating Transportation Network and Regional Economic Models to Estimate the Costs of a Large Urban Earthquake', Journal of Regional Science, 41 (1), February, 39-65 (2001) | p. 262 |
'A General Equilibrium Analysis of Partial-Equilibrium Welfare Measures: The Case of Climate Change', American Economic Review, 77 (3), June, 331-41 (1987) | p. 289 |
Role of Forecasting in Reducing Disaster Impacts | |
'A Case Study in the Economics of Information and Coordination: The Weather Forecasting System', Quarterly Journal of Economics, LXXVIII, 420-41 (1964) | p. 303 |
'A Decision Model for Adjusting to Natural Hazard Events with Application to Urban Snow Storms', Review of Economics and Statistics, 58, 50-58 (1976) | p. 325 |
'The Decision to Seed Hurricanes', Science, 176 (4040), 16 June, 1191-202 (1972) | p. 334 |
'Hail Suppression and Society', Science, 200 (4340), 28 April, 387-94 (1978) | p. 346 |
Reducing Risks Through Self-Protection | |
'Market Insurance, Self-Insurance, and Self-Protection', Journal of Political Economy, 80 (4), July/August, 623-48 (1972) | p. 357 |
'Self-Insurance against Natural Disasters', Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 16 (3), 209-23 (1989) | p. 383 |
'Risk, Self-Protection, and Ex Ante Economic Value', Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 20 (1), January, 1-15 (1991) | p. 398 |
Structural Mitigation Measures | |
'The Economics of Building Codes to Resist Seismic Shock', Public Policy, 29 (1), Winter, 1-29 (1981) | p. 415 |
'Alternatives for Managing Drought: A Comparative Cost Analysis', Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 29, 304-20 (1995) | p. 444 |
'Risk Costs for New Dams: Economic Analysis and Effects of Monitoring', Water Resources Research, 22 (1), January, 5-14 (1986) | p. 461 |
'Risk Analysis and Management of Dam Safety', Risk Analysis, 18 (4), August 455-62 (1998) | p. 471 |
Name Index | p. 479 |
Acknowledgements | p. ix |
An introduction by the editors to both volumes appears in Volume I | |
Role of Disaster Insurance | |
'Insurance, Risk and Resource Allocation', in Essays in the Theory of Risk-Bearing, Chapter 5, Amsterdam and London: North-Holland Publishing Company, 134-43 (1971) | p. 3 |
'An Economic Approach to Coping with Flood Damage', Water Resources Research, 2 (2), 183-90, reset (1966) | p. 13 |
'All Risks Rating within a Catastrophe Insurance System', Journal of Risk and Insurance, 43 (4), December, 629-51 (1976) | p. 22 |
'Mitigating Disaster Losses through Insurance', Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 12, 171-87 (1996) | p. 45 |
Financial Coverage Against Catastrophic Losses | |
'Catastrophe Insurance, Capital Markets, and Uninsurable Risks', Journal of Risk and Insurance, 64 (2), June, 205-30 (1997) | p. 65 |
'Can Insurers Pay for the "Big One"? Measuring the Capacity of the Insurance Market to Respond to Catastrophic Losses', Journal of Banking and Finance, 26, 557-83 (2002) | p. 91 |
'The Market for Catastrophe Risk: A Clinical Examination', Journal of Financial Economics, 60, 529-71 (2001) | p. 118 |
'The Role of Government Contracts in Discretionary Reinsurance Markets for Natural Disasters', Journal of Risk and Insurance, 63 (4), December, 567-97 (1996) | p. 161 |
'A Role for Capital Markets in Natural Disasters: A Piece of the Food Security Puzzle', Food Policy, 25 (3), June, 365-78 (2000) | p. 192 |
Developing Private-Public Partnerships for Managing Disasters | |
'The Economics of Catastrophes', Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 12 (2/3), 113-40 (1996) | p. 209 |
'Addressing Public Risks: Federal Earthquake Policy Design', Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 10 (2), 263-85 (1991) | p. 237 |
'Mitigation Emerges as Major Strategy for Reducing Losses Caused by Natural Disasters', Science, 284 (5422), 18 June, 1943-7 (1999) | p. 260 |
'The Complementary Roles of Mitigation and Insurance in Managing Catastrophic Risks', Risk Analysis, 19 (4), August, 727-38 (1999) | p. 265 |
Recovery and Reconstruction | |
'Are There Long-Term Effects of American Natural Disasters? Estimations of Effects of Floods, Hurricanes, and Tornados Occurring 1960 to 1970 on US Counties and Census Tracts in 1970', Mass Emergencies, 3, 117-32, reset (1978) | p. 279 |
'Disasters and Charity: Some Aspects of Cooperative Economic Behavior', American Economic Review, 62 (4), September, 580-90 (1972) | p. 297 |
'Economic Lessons of the Kobe Earthquake', Economic Development and Cultural Change, 48 (3), April, 521-42 (2000) | p. 308 |
Integrated Assessment of Hazards | |
'Natural Hazard in Human Ecological Perspective: Hypotheses and Models', Economic Geography, 47 (3), July, 438-51 (1971) | p. 333 |
'A Model Framework for Integrated Studies of the Climate Problem', Energy Policy, 21 (3), March, 209-21 (1993) | p. 347 |
'Development of a National Earthquake Loss Estimation Methodology', Earthquake Spectra, 13 (4), November, 643-61 (1997) | p. 360 |
Sustainability and Disaster-Resistant Communities | |
'Summary', in Disasters by Design: A Reassessment of Natural Hazards in the United States, Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press, 1-15, reference (1999) | p. 381 |
'Recovery after Disaster: Achieving Sustainable Development, Mitigation and Equity', Disasters, 17 (2), 93-109 (1993) | p. 396 |
'Unleashing the Power of Planning to Create Disaster-Resistant Communities', American Planning Association Journal, 65 (3), Summer, 247-58 (1999) | p. 413 |
Economics of Disasters in Developing Countries | |
'Population Growth, Urbanization, and Disaster Risk and Vulnerability in Metropolitan Areas: A Conceptual Framework', in Alcira Kreimer and Mohan Munasinghe (eds), World Bank Discussion Papers #168: Environmental Management and Urban Vulnerability, Chapter 2, Washington, DC: World Bank, 51-76 (1992) | p. 427 |
'Natural Disaster Situations and Growth: A Macroeconomic Model for Sudden Disaster Impacts', World Development, 21 (9), 1417-34 (1993) | p. 453 |
'Hedging Natural Catastrophe Risk in Developing Countries', Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, 26 (3), July, 373-85 (2001) | p. 471 |
Name Index | p. 485 |
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ISBN: 9781840648157
ISBN-10: 1840648155
Series: The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics series
Published: 1st January 2004
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 1040
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 24.4 x 16.9 x 8.89
Weight (kg): 2.11
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