Natural hazard risk is largely projected to increase in the future, placing growing
responsibility on decision makers to proactively reduce risk. Consequently, decision support …

Managed retreat is a potentially important climate change adaptation option, providing an
alternative to structural protection or accommodation measures to manage natural hazard …

The welfare impact of a disaster does not only depend on the physical characteristics of the
event or its direct impacts in terms of lost lives and assets. Welfare impacts also depend on …

The benefit-cost-ratio (BCR), used in cost-benefit analysis (CBA), is an indicator that
attempts to summarize the overall value for money of a project. Disaster costs continue to …

Economic resilience is a major way to reduce losses from disasters. Its effectiveness would
be further enhanced if it could be precisely defined and measured. This paper distinguishes …

One commonly proposed method to limit flood risk is land‐use or zoning policies which
regulates construction in high‐risk areas, in order to reduce economic exposure and its …

Flow velocity is generally presumed to influence flood damage. However, this influence is
hardly quantified and virtually no damage models take it into account. Therefore, the …

Society is increasingly focused on resilience to catastrophic events. Firms generally observe
two forms of economic disruption, property damage and business interruption (BI). In …

Disaster recovery is often unplanned for in the emergency management life cycle. Yet
recovery is the key stage where funds, programs, professional expertise, and volunteer …

Although flood risk assessments are frequently associated with significant uncertainty,
formal uncertainty analyses are the exception rather than the rule. We propose to separate …