...Charlotte Benson Purpose This transcript provides a historical overview of the discussions on economics in disaster risk reduction. Design/methodology/approach The transcript and video was developed in the context of a United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) project...

... to business concerns when future outbreaks occur. Economics Disaster prevention Economic impact Zika Timothy F. Page can be contacted at: tpage@fiu.edu 26 04 2017 02 06 2017 03 06 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use...

... to become resilient to the effects of natural hazards and related technological and environmental disasters, in order to reduce human, economic and social losses” (www.unisdr.org/unisdr), proves to be an efficient worldwide discussion platform. The publication of Living with Risk (ISDR, 2002...

... a approach how a government may find the economically most vulnerable links in the infrastructure network. It is proposed to use a spatial applied general equilibrium model in the new economic geography tradition to measure the indirect economic effects. The additional costs on transport and commuting due...

... individual, group, and community behavior in a single framework. At the empirical level, it is especially difficult to gather data on resilience to specify models. The purpose of this paper is to summarize progress on all three planes. First, defines several important dimensions of economic resilience...