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
Paper examining the interplay between agglomeration and exposure to disaster risk.
A report by Paul Collier, author of 'The Bottom Billion', for the Secretary-General of the United Nations