Disasters in the United States: Frequency, Costs, and Compensation

Vera Brusentsev and Wayne Vroman
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Abstract: Disasters are increasing in both frequency and financial costs. Analysis presented here deals with what we know about disasters in the United States including their increasing frequency of occurrence and associated financial costs, compensation available to survivors, where particular types of disasters are most likely to occur, and how disasters can be mitigated.

Keywords: natural disasters; global warming; remediation; environmental degradation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H54 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
ISBN: cloth 9780880995238 paper 9780880995214 ebook 9780880995245
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