Studies warn that global warming and sea level rise will create hundreds of millions of
environmental refugees. While climate change will undoubtedly affect future migration …

Proactive engagement of stakeholders in early phases of disaster risk management is a
requisite for resilient society and built environment against disasters. Recent research …

The winter of 2013/2014 saw a series of severe storms hit the UK, leading to widespread
flooding, a major emergency response and extensive media exposure. Previous research …

The first decade of the 21st century saw a remarkable number of large-scale disasters.
Earthquakes in Haiti and Sumatra underscored the serious economic consequences that …

The investment decisions of small-scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by
their financial environment. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can …

Building on a textbook description of associative memory, we present a model of choice in
which a choice option cues recall of similar past experiences. Memory shapes valuation and …

Bangladesh is one of the most flood-prone countries in the world, resulting in significant
losses of agricultural crops and other assets due to the absence of risk mitigation strategies …

Virtually all current theories of choice under risk or uncertainty are cognitive and
consequentialist. They assume that people assess the desirability and likelihood of possible …

I examine the learning process that economic agents use to update their expectation of an
uncertain and infrequently observed event. I use a new nation-wide panel dataset of large …

This study proposed and tested a multistage model of household response to three hazards—
flood, hurricane, and toxic chemical release—in Harris County Texas. The model, which …