Article on California's efforts to monitor progress based on a law passed on Jan. 1 to charge industries across the economy for the greenhouse gases they emit.
Study of the annual variation in the incidence of typhoons to identify the effect of environmental disaster on economic and health outcomes in Filipino households.
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.
'This paper provides a methodology and a set of indicators for measuring baseline characteristics of communities that foster resilience.'
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 exploring the impacts of climate change and the costs for adaptation that will have to be absorbed by both households and the public sector. The paper makes some interesting points about the potential for increased education and empowerment for women and girls to drive reductions in the vulnerability of affected communities.
Study by the UC Berkeley Institute of Urban and Regional Development looking at the economic benefits fo the Disaster Resistant Universities program.
Guidelines for estimating the economic impact of natural disasters on development in the Pacific. Includes an assessment in Fiji, Niue, Tuvalu and Vanuatu of the economic impact of a selection of natural hazards on particular sectors.
Article discussing the growing private sector interest in microfinance and recent studies that question some of the common assumptions about microfinance.