This book outlines methodologies to estimate the economic impacts of natural disasters based on business surveys conducted after large disasters in Japan. By in

Since the turn of the millennium, more than one million people have been killed and 2.3 billion others have been directly affected by natural disasters around t

We in the United States have almost come to accept natural disasters as part of our nation's social fabric. News of property damage, economic and social disrupt

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This volume is dedicated to the memory of Barclay G. Jones, Professor of City and Regional Planning and Regional Science at Cornell University. Over a decade ag