In this chapter, we use a dataset to examine the impact of natural disasters on residential house prices using a hedonic property (HP) values approach. Data before and after both a wildfire and floods, which affected Rockhampton in central coastal part of the state of Queensland, Australia are...
The 2021 Pacific Northwest Heatwave challenged standard attribution methods. The authors use a weather model that predicted the event to quantify human impact on the heat, suggesting that such models could be used broadly to assess changing weather risk. ...
For children, natural disasters can disrupt schooling and classes may even be put on hold temporarily. Researchers from several universities in Australia set out to investigate the long-term effects that a natural disaster can have on academic performance. The study, published in the journalChild De...
While natural disasters cause considerable damage and a number of studies have attempted to investigate the nature and quantify the magnitude of these losses, there is a paucity of empirical evidence on the impact on the banking sector. In this paper we construct a panel of quarterly banking data...
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Based on socioeconomic and disaster impact data from 31 provinces (municipalities, and autonomous regions) in China from 1990 to 2010, ordinary least squares regression was used to determine the relationship between socioeconomic development and effects of natural disasters. Results showed that economic...
A study of the impact of natural disasters on farmers' livelihoods in mountainous areas would have significant importance for policy making. Based on field survey data from sample households, this study comparatively analyzed the assets, livelihood styles and income of farmers over three periods—2007...
in Australia and finds that, unlike other hydroclimatic hazards, we currently have very limited ability to tell when a drought will begin or end. Understanding, defining, monitoring, forecasting and managing drought is also complex due to the variety of temporal and spatial scales at which drought...
From flooding to hurricanes and tornadoes to wildfires, in 2021 the U.S. seemed to be engulfed by one weather disaster after another. The numbers confirm that last year was one of the most destructive and costliest on record, with scientists citing the numbers as evidence of a...
Thus, the immediate impact of natural disasters is better interpreted as households getting (further) into debt rather than as financial development, but we find longer term impacts too that indicate an expansion of credit availability.Subhani Keerthiratne...