Costs of Natural Hazards
Costs of Natural Hazards
Editor(s): H. Kreibich, L. Bouwer, R. Schwarze, and F. Guzzetti
Cost assessments of the overall economic impacts of natural hazards as well as costs of prevention and responses to natural hazards supply crucial information for decision support and policy development in the fields of natural hazard management and climate change adaptation planning. However, the significant diversity in methods that are currently applied and terminology used in costs assessments of different natural hazards and impacted sectors make it difficult to establish comprehensive, robust and reliable cost figures, and also hinder comparison of costs across countries, across hazards and across impacted sectors.

The objective of this special issue is to presents current knowledge on methods for assessing individual cost types (such as direct damages to housing, long-term losses in the macro-economy, as well as costs of risk reduction) and show how these methods are used in the context of various natural hazards (e.g. floods, droughts, alpine hazards, coastal hazards). Papers are welcome in the areas of assessing these various types of damage induced by natural hazards as well as contributions that focus on the cost-effectiveness or efficiency of risk reduction to natural hazards and adaptation to increasing weather risks that are due to climate change. Papers may cover for instance data collection, model development, validation, uncertainty analysis, and the application of damage models in case studies.

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17 Apr 2014
Ex post damage assessment: an Italian experience
D. Molinari, S. Menoni, G. T. Aronica, F. Ballio, N. Berni, C. Pandolfo, M. Stelluti, and G. Minucci
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 14, 901–916, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-901-2014,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-901-2014, 2014
25 Feb 2014
Regional economic impacts of natural hazards – the case of the 2005 Alpine flood event in Tyrol (Austria)
C. Pfurtscheller
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 14, 359–378, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-359-2014,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-359-2014, 2014
28 Oct 2013
Direct and indirect economic impacts of drought in the agri-food sector in the Ebro River basin (Spain)
M. Gil, A. Garrido, and N. Hernández-Mora
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 13, 2679–2694, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-13-2679-2013,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-13-2679-2013, 2013
09 Oct 2013
Review Article: Economic evaluation of flood damage to agriculture – review and analysis of existing methods
P. Brémond, F. Grelot, and A.-L. Agenais
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 13, 2493–2512, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-13-2493-2013,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-13-2493-2013, 2013
23 Sep 2013
Contribution of land use changes to future flood damage along the river Meuse in the Walloon region
A. Beckers, B. Dewals, S. Erpicum, S. Dujardin, S. Detrembleur, J. Teller, M. Pirotton, and P. Archambeau
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 13, 2301–2318, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-13-2301-2013,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-13-2301-2013, 2013
10 Sep 2013
Risk evolution: how can changes in the built environment influence the potential loss of natural hazards?
B. Schwendtner, M. Papathoma-Köhle, and T. Glade
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 13, 2195–2207, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-13-2195-2013,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-13-2195-2013, 2013
30 Aug 2013
Proportional loss functions for debris flow events
C. M. Rheinberger, H. E. Romang, and M. Bründl
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 13, 2147–2156, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-13-2147-2013,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-13-2147-2013, 2013
16 Aug 2013
Insuring catastrophes and the role of governments
M. M. Boyer and C. M. Nyce
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 13, 2053–2063, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-13-2053-2013,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-13-2053-2013, 2013
29 May 2013
Review article: Assessing the costs of natural hazards – state of the art and knowledge gaps
V. Meyer, N. Becker, V. Markantonis, R. Schwarze, J. C. J. M. van den Bergh, L. M. Bouwer, P. Bubeck, P. Ciavola, E. Genovese, C. Green, S. Hallegatte, H. Kreibich, Q. Lequeux, I. Logar, E. Papyrakis, C. Pfurtscheller, J. Poussin, V. Przyluski, A. H. Thieken, and C. Viavattene
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 13, 1351–1373, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-13-1351-2013,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-13-1351-2013, 2013
20 Mar 2013
Brief communication "The assessment of damage caused by historical landslide events"
O. Petrucci
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 13, 755–761, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-13-755-2013,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-13-755-2013, 2013
20 Mar 2013
Estimation of insurance premiums for coverage against natural disaster risk: an application of Bayesian Inference
Y. Paudel, W. J. W. Botzen, and J. C. J. H. Aerts
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 13, 737–754, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-13-737-2013,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-13-737-2013, 2013
11 Jan 2013
Multi-variate flood damage assessment: a tree-based data-mining approach
B. Merz, H. Kreibich, and U. Lall
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 13, 53–64, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-13-53-2013,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-13-53-2013, 2013
19 Dec 2012
Comparative flood damage model assessment: towards a European approach
B. Jongman, H. Kreibich, H. Apel, J. I. Barredo, P. D. Bates, L. Feyen, A. Gericke, J. Neal, J. C. J. H. Aerts, and P. J. Ward
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 12, 3733–3752, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-12-3733-2012,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-12-3733-2012, 2012
26 Nov 2012
Long-term development and effectiveness of private flood mitigation measures: an analysis for the German part of the river Rhine
P. Bubeck, W. J. W. Botzen, H. Kreibich, and J. C. J. H. Aerts
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 12, 3507–3518, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-12-3507-2012,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-12-3507-2012, 2012
21 Nov 2012
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Potential of semi-structural and non-structural adaptation strategies to reduce future flood risk: case study for the Meuse
J. K. Poussin, P. Bubeck, J. C. J. H. Aerts, and P. J. Ward
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 12, 3455–3471, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-12-3455-2012,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-12-3455-2012, 2012
05 Jun 2015
Preface: Current advances in analysis, modelling and mitigation of the costs of natural hazards
H. Kreibich, L. M. Bouwer, and R. Schwarze
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 15, 1157–1162, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-1157-2015,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-1157-2015, 2015
08 Aug 2013
Contribution of insurance data to cost assessment of coastal flood damage to residential buildings: insights gained from Johanna (2008) and Xynthia (2010) storm events
C. André, D. Monfort, M. Bouzit, and C. Vinchon
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 13, 2003–2012, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-13-2003-2013,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-13-2003-2013, 2013
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