Disasters

“经济学是政治经济和经验, and this distinction has not been lost in Professor Skidmore’s edited book on the economics of natural disasters. This collection strikes a good balance between quantitative and non-qua...

Foreign aid remains a crucial policy tool of donor countries, and many countries throughout the world have been or continue to be recipients of aid. In this two-volume set, Professor Milner and Professor Tingley bring together the key pu...

‘By bringing together these groundbreaking papers on legal issues of disasters, Farber and Faure construe a proper research domain of “disaster law”. They convincingly juxtapose disaster prevention, mitigation, response, compensation and...

This influential book explores the key policy implications arising from Hurricane Katrina. Leading scholars from fields as diverse as decision analysis, risk management, economics, engineering, transportation, urban planning and sociolog...