A review of risk perceptions and other factors that influence flood mitigation behavior

P Bubeck, WJW Botzen… - Risk Analysis: An …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In flood risk management, a shift can be observed toward more integrated approaches that
increasingly address the role of private households in implementing flood damage mitigation …

[HTML][HTML] The economic impacts of natural disasters: A review of models and empirical studies

WJW Botzen, O Deschenes… - … Economics and Policy, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
Economic losses from natural disasters have been increasing in recent decades. This has
been attributed mainly to population and economic growth in disaster-prone areas. Future …

A review of the financial sector impacts of risks associated with climate change

F Zhou, T Endendijk, WJW Botzen - Annual Review of Resource …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews the literature on the financial sector impacts of natural disasters and
physical climate change risks, covering banking, insurance, stock markets, bond markets, and …

Willingness of homeowners to mitigate climate risk through insurance

WJW Botzen, JCJH Aerts, JCJM van den Bergh - Ecological Economics, 2009 - Elsevier
Climate change is projected to increase flood risks in certain regions due to an increase in
both precipitation and sea level rise. In addition, socio-economic scenarios project an …

Risk attitudes to low-probability climate change risks: WTP for flood insurance

WJW Botzen, JCJM van den Bergh - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2012 - Elsevier
Natural disasters may increase in frequency and severity in the future as a result of climate
change, which is likely to have an impact on the demand for natural disaster insurance. …

Increasing stress on disaster-risk finance due to large floods

B Jongman, S Hochrainer-Stigler, L Feyen… - Nature Climate …, 2014 - nature.com
Recent major flood disasters have shown that single extreme events can affect multiple
countries simultaneously 1 , 2 , 3 , which puts high pressure on trans-national risk reduction and …

Evaluating flood resilience strategies for coastal megacities

JCJH Aerts, WJW Botzen, K Emanuel, N Lin… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Recent flood disasters in the United States (2005, 2008, 2012); the Philippines (2012, 2013);
and Britain (2014) illustrate how vulnerable coastal cities are to storm surge flooding ( 1 ). …

Combining hazard, exposure and social vulnerability to provide lessons for flood risk management

EE Koks, B Jongman, TG Husby… - Environmental science & …, 2015 - Elsevier
Flood risk assessments provide inputs for the evaluation of flood risk management (FRM)
strategies. Traditionally, such risk assessments provide estimates of loss of life and economic …

Dependence of flood risk perceptions on socioeconomic and objective risk factors

WJW Botzen, J Aerts… - Water resources …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines flood risk perceptions of individuals in the Netherlands using a survey
of approximately 1000 homeowners. Perceptions of a range of aspects of flood risk are …

Heat stress causes substantial labour productivity loss in Australia

KK Zander, WJW Botzen, E Oppermann… - Nature climate …, 2015 - nature.com
Heat stress at the workplace is an occupational health hazard that reduces labour productivity
1 . Assessment of productivity loss resulting from climate change has so far been based …