Decentralization and Natural Disasters

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This paper surveys recent research on decentralization and natural disasters. The first part discusses results from theoretical models that have been used to study the issues that arise when natural disasters occur in a country with more than one level of government. The next section discusses the empirical results that have been found in the literature. A third section briefly touches upon practical problems that arise when decentralized governments are confronted with a natural disaster. The paper concludes by reflecting on what we know about whether policies to confront natural disasters should be centralized or decentralized.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 4179

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock ; State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations: Other ; Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming ; Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: General
• Subject: natural disasters ; decentralization ; risk-sharing ; redistributive transfers ; federalism ; intergovernmental relations ; grants

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Goodspeed, Timothy J.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/71175
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET