Review article: Assessing the costs of natural hazards – state of the art and knowledge gaps

• Published in: Natural hazards and earth system sciences Vol. 13; no. 5; pp. 1351 - 1373
• Main Authors: Meyer, V., Becker, N., Markantonis, V., Schwarze, R., van den Bergh, J. C. J. M., Bouwer, L. M., Bubeck, P., Ciavola, P., Genovese, E., Green, C., Hallegatte, S., Kreibich, H., Lequeux, Q., Logar, I., Papyrakis, E., Pfurtscheller, C., Poussin, J., Przyluski, V., Thieken, A. H., Viavattene, C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Katlenburg-Lindau Copernicus GmbH 29.05.2013; Copernicus Publ. / European Geosciences Union; Copernicus Publications
• Subjects: Cost assessments; Drought; Environmental Sciences; Risk reduction; climate-change impacts; alternative policy responses; rio-grande; water-supply; flood-loss estimation; general equilibrium-analysis; reliability; willingness-to-pay; basin; avalanche risk; loss estimation model; input-output model

Efficiently reducing natural hazard risks requires a thorough understanding of the costs of natural hazards. Current methods to assess these costs employ a variety of terminologies and approaches for different types of natural hazards and different impacted sectors. This may impede efforts to ascert...