Although there's little we can do to avoid Mother Nature's next catastrophe, we can better prepare for it, both physically and financially. Understanding the economic implications of a disaster is ...

The devastation in the Carolinas, however, is a reminder of how powerful natural disasters can be and how overwhelming these events are to individuals, businesses and communities at large.

In this paper I investigate the effects of disasters on human capital accumulation using an extensive panel dataset on natural disasters, covering 170 countries over a 25 year period (1980-2004). My ...

Long-term effects can come from lack of medical assistance during the disaster, changes in environment, or PTSD from the trauma of the event.

In the wake of the Queensland floods, the Christchurch earthquake, and the Japanese earthquake/tsunami/nuclear crisis, people are asking for advice about how we should manage the effects of ...

Though the Fukushima nuclear disaster occurred six years ago, it carries lasting implications that remain today throughout Japan and around the world. On Thursday, Brown’s Japanese Cultural ...

Disaster effects might be far-reaching, UCSD paper finds Researchers look at Union Carbide chemical gas leak in India in 1984 ...

Natural disasters often result in significant loss of life, homes, and belongings. While some recover, others endure long-term effects.

What the report tries to do is understand, in a bit more detail, how the effects of the fires rippled across workers in Los Angeles … .” ...

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, researchers found that the stress from dealing with the storm had adverse effects on the infants born soon after.