Applying several methods of analysis to the most comprehensive existing global dataset of natural disaster loss, the authors ï¬nd no signiï¬cant upward trends in normalized disaster damage over the period 1980–2009 globally, regionally, or for speciï¬c disaster types.
A paper examining the short and long-run average causal impact of catastrophic natural disasters on economic growth which found that only extremely large disasters have a negative effect on output, both in the short and long run