Have disaster losses increased due to anthropogenic climate change

By L. Bouwer. 2011

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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Normalizing economic loss from natural disasters: a global analysis (2010, background): “Second, an increasing trend of damage from natural disasters could point in the direction that climatic changes may be the driving force, which would have implications for the debate on reducing greenhouse gas emissions (Bouwer, 2010; Schmidt et al., 2009).”
Dependence of US hurricane economic loss on maximum wind speed and storm size (2014, methodology): “, L =CVmax a , with a ranging between 3 and 9 (Nordhaus 2010, Bouwer and Botzen 2011, Emanuel 2011) and C being a scaling factor. Murnane and Elsner (2012) analyzed normalized US hurricane losses from 1900 to 2011 using a linear fitting between log10(L) and Vmax for the top 10%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 9”
Toward enhanced understanding and projections of climate extremes using physics-guided data mining techniques (2014, background): “The size depicting each type of hazard provides a measure of our uncertainty under climate change; unfortunately, we find that the level of uncertainty is generally high for the most destructive hazards (Bouwer, 2011).”
The local impact of typhoons on economic activity in China: A view from outer space (2015, methodology): “(2007) and Brecht et al. (2012) and define land areas contiguous with the coastline up to a 10 meter rise elevation using the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) elevation data set.”
A global reanalysis of storm surges and extreme sea levels (2016, unknown): “To date, socioeconomic development has been the main driver of increasing risk 11 , but in the future sea level rise will be an important driver of increasing risk of coastal ﬂoods 5,12–14 .”
A trend analysis of normalized insured damage from natural disasters (2012, background): “First, insurance companies naturally worry most about insured losses and are interested in any trends in these losses quite independently of whether they are caused by natural climate variability or anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions or other drivers (Bouwer 2011).”
The political economy of natural disaster damage (2014, background): “Second, the economic toll is higher the wealthier the area hit by the natural hazard (Pielke et al. 1999; Neumayer and Barthel 2012; Bouwer 2011).”