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models to estimate additional damage resulting from climate change, 174–77, 234nn8–10 hedonic property price model, 77, 212n4 tropical cyclones, 176b6.1 for weather, 121–22, 229n13 monitoring of government spending, 133 of hazards, 119–21, 220n11 Montserrat, 144 moral hazard, 143 Mozambique, 19, 162–63 Mumbai, India, 15, 80, 81, 83–84 Munich Reinsurance Company, 26b1.3 Myanmar, 125
N NatCat, 26b1.3 National Engineering Services, Pakistan, 93 National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), 145 National Meteorological and Hydrological Service (NMHS), 123b4.3 National Meteorological Service Agency, Ethiopia, 136 National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 177b6.1 National Research Center, Italy, 87–88b3.3 National Risk Atlas, 86b3.2 National Weather Service, 122 natural hazards and CAT DDO, 150–51 definition, 1 and protection, 128, 129–30t4.1 see also disasters; hazards; specific hazard natural resources analysis of value of, 128, 130–33, 221n19, 221n21 curse of, 52, 203n15 destruction of, 59, 205n32 management of, 132–33, 221n21 Nepal, prevention and relief spending, 14f8, 107f5.1 net present value (NPV), 131 New Orleans, Louisiana, 173–74, 233–34n5 newspaper circulation, 111 New York City, rent controls, 5, 80 NFIP. see National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Nicaragua, and prevention measures, 19
Nile River, 137–38 NMHS. see National Meteorological and Hydrological Service (NMHS) NOAA. see National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) North America, cyclone damages, 179 North Carolina, 77 NPV. see net present value (NPV) nutrition, 47
O ocean currents, disruption of, 182, 234n13 Olson, Mancur, 110 Olympics, 111 Operation GEO-CAN, 62 Oromo, 135, 225n6 Ostrom, Elinor, 89, 102, 103–4 output aggregate and sectoral effects of disasters on, 54–57, 203nn 17–19, 203n21 and consumption, 41, 201n2 and damages assessment, 58, 204n26 estimation of sectoral declines in, 60, 205n34 growth of link to population growth, 170 impact of disasters on, 11–13, 42, 52–54 and welfare, 41, 42, 201n1 oversight, 8–9, 96, 214n16 owner-occupied homes, 89, 213n10 ownership, and prevention measures, 76
P Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Hawaii, 167–68 Pakistan, 62, 161t5.1 and cash transfers, 160 and vernacular architecture, 90, 92–94, 231nn12–13 Papua New Guinea, 128 parametric insurance, 148, 152 pastoral systems, 48–49, 135, 202n11 peace in Africa, 138 and probability of earthquakes, 49, 202n13 peril property insurance, 144 Peru, 15 Philippines, 46, 155 photographs Banda Aceh, 165 borders between Haiti and Dominican Republic, 101f2
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