Managing unnatural disaster risk from climate extremes

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on urban riverine flood risk across 200 countries for today, 2030, and 2080, and develop a risk threshold approach for identifying whether a country is exposed to risk of extreme events and, if so, when and how much.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the question of how the economic and broader benefits of disaster risk management can be recognized and realized by those in charge of fiscal policy decisions, and identify four steps and three dividends to harnessed: (i) understanding fiscal risk; (ii) protecting public finance through risk financing instruments, the first dividend; (iii) managing disaster risk comprehensively, the second dividend; and (iv) pursuing a synergistic, co-benefits strategy of concurrently managing disaster risks and promoting development, the third dividend.

TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of benefit-cost analysis for assessing investments in structural flood-proofing of low-income, high-risk houses is presented, which takes account of climate change, which is increasingly viewed as an important consideration for assessing long-term investments.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore sovereign risk preferences against direct and indirect natural disasters losses in industrialized countries using Australia as a case study, and compare expected disa cation losses.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review and analysis of recent quantitative studies on past increases in weather disaster losses and the role of anthropogenic climate change, and they conclude that although economic losses from weather-related hazards have increased, climate change so far did not have a significant impact on losses from natural disasters.

TL;DR: An actor-centered, risk-based approach to defining limits to social adaptation provides a useful analytic framing for identifying and anticipating these limits and informing debates over society's responses to climate change.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use Global Trade Analysis Project data and input-output analysis to estimate the flows of virtual carbon implicit in domestic production technologies and the pattern of international trade.