The study described here examines the short- and long-term economic, and financial impacts of natural disasters. It relies in part, on in-depth case studies of overall sensitivity to natural hazards in...
The study takes the 2002 food crisis in Malawi as its context and uses evidence up to 2001; reassess the economic consequences in Malawi and Southern Africa more generally of climatic variability in the...
Bangladesh is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. Physical hazards that could potentially cause considerable loss of life and catastrophic physical damage and disruption to society and...
This paper arose out of interest in the broader implications of droughts in African countries and in particular, the droughts of Southern Africa in the mid-1990s. Although the physical aspects and agricultural...