Natural and Unnatural Disasters

The Economics of Natural and Unnatural Disasters

Throughout history mankind has been subject to disasters produced by " Mother Nature " as well as the man-made variety. Only recently, however, have economists understood disasters as economic phenomena to be formally analyzed. Given the magnitude of many recent disasters, their impact on local, regional, and national economies, and the coverage of their consequences in the popular press, it is...

Introduction [to The Economics of Natural and Unnatural Disasters]

poverty and natural disasters

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Natural Disasters

Unnatural Disasters: Case Studies of Human-Induced Environmental Catastrophes

This book was written as a sequel to an earlier volume by the same author on the impact of natural disasters, The Impact of Geology on the United States: A Reference Guide to Benefits and Hazards (Westport, CT:Greenwood Press, 2001). In this second volume, Angus M. Gunn provides an overview of human-made environmental disasters. He shows that although technology has given humankind enormous con...