Flood is one of the most damaging natural disasters as the recent floods have shown their
serious impact on Pakistan. Flood control and regulation policies are essential to reduce the …

This paper looks at adaptation to climate change from the point of view of (poor) households.
Since the development literature has firmly established the role of weather risk as a source …

The purpose of the present paper is to disentangle the mechanisms that connect climate
change-induced disasters, inequality and vulnerability by accounting for both directions of …

Violence against women is a major problem in all countries, affecting women in every socio-
economic group and at every life stage. Nowhere in the world do women share equal social …

Natural disasters do not affect people equally. In fact, a vulnerability approach to disasters
would suggest that inequalities in exposure and sensitivity to risk as well as inequalities in …

Natural hazard events provide opportunities for policy change to enhance disaster risk
reduction (DRR), yet it remains unclear whether these events actually fulfill this …

Flooding is a pervasive natural hazard, with new research demonstrating that more than one
in five people around the world live in areas directly exposed to 1-in-100 year flood risk …

Economic inequality is rising within many countries globally, and this can significantly
influence the social vulnerability to natural hazards. We analysed income inequality and …

Natural disasters are one of the major problems facing humankind. Between 1980 and
2004, two million people were reported killed and five billion people cumulatively affected by …

In this paper we investigate the macroeconomic impact of natural disasters in developing
countries by examining hurricane strikes in the Central American and Caribbean regions …