For the first time we’ve calculated what effect a natural disaster has on income tax revenue, finding a 5% decline through lower incomes and higher tax deduction claims.
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Articles on Natural disaster mitigation
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Australia’s east coast flooding is forcing people to confront challenges such as evacuations and loss of property. However, Aboriginal people are being left to find their own way through this crisis.
Natural disasters are driving up insurance costs. The Australian government’s plan to drive them down won’t help much.
Although insurance is important in natural disaster recovery, government and property owners also play an important role in protecting Canadians against the impact of catastrophic weather events.
Failures to respond adequately to the floods that hit Germany and Luxembourg in July 2021 must teach us how to prepare for future climate disasters.
As weather becomes more extreme, the value of coastal wetlands is increasing.
Federal weather scientists are pushing to make the US more ‘weather-ready,’ which could mean prepping for fires, flooding or storms depending on where you live. The common factor: thinking ahead.
To understand the different economic impacts of natural disasters, we looked at 47 major floods and 36 major bushfires in Australia.
Australia can take great strides forward in climate policy and action. A reactionary, incremental approach to adaptation will fall short. Now is the time to think big.
Wetlands bear the brunt of much storm damage to the coast. But over the past 300 years, 85% of the world’s wetland area has been destroyed.
Knowing what makes an effective response to natural disasters will be increasingly important as the climate crisis intensifies.
Australian emergency services are using social media for a number of purposes during disasters. What they are not doing well is analysing social media data in real time to improve disaster management.
What is political will or political commitment to disaster risk reduction? Why is it important to measure political commitment? And how to measure it?
We don’t need to send in the army every time there’s a natural disaster, or create a national fire fighting force. We need to think practically about working together in emergencies.
Along with climate change and drought, invasive grasses are promoting wildfires across the US, even in areas that don’t normally burn.
Some Californians want to ban people from living in wildfire-prone areas. Behavioral economics offers a less heavy-handed approach to reducing the costs and risks.
A devastating quake and tsunami in the Pacific Ocean prompted a new kind of post-disaster research. Ten years on, we need these lessons to prepare for a precarious future.
Many return to dangerous evacuation zones fully understanding the risks. New research explains why.
Hotels in the Bahamas are helping the islands recover from the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Dorian, just as they did in Florida following Irma in 2017.
As Hurricane Dorian approaches Florida, we share three articles on predicting hurricanes’ paths and evacuating from harm’s way.
Top contributors
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Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, Humanitarian Emergency and Disaster Management, College of Indigenous Futures, Arts and Society, Charles Darwin University
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PhD Candidate in Political Science and International Relations, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Economics, Head of the Department of Economics, and Director of the Centre for Disaster Resilience and Recovery, Deakin University
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Director Sydney Environment Institute and Professor of Environmental Politics, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Behavioural Economics , Newcastle Business School, University of Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer in Communications, Media and Democracy, University of Glasgow
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Associate Professor in Law, Australian National University
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Professor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts & Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Honorary Professor of Hazards and Disaster Risk Sciences, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience, University of Florida
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Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Queensland University of Technology
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Research Fellow, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide
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Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor, UCL
