Informing Climate Adaptation: A Review of the Economic Costs of Natural Disasters, Their Determinants, and Risk Reduction Options

Carolyn Kousky (kousky@rff.org)
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Abstract: This paper reviews the empirical literature on the economic impacts of natural disasters to inform both climate adaptation policy and the estimation of potential climate damages. It covers papers that estimate the short- and long-run economic impacts of weather-related extreme events as well as studies regarding the determinants of the magnitude of those damages (including fatalities). The paper also includes a discussion of risk reduction options and the use of such measures as an adaptation strategy for predicted changes in extreme events with climate change.

Keywords: natural disaster damages; climate adaptation; risk mitigation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D1 E2 O1 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-07-05
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