"The book, Disaster Recovery Handbook and Household Inventory Guide (How to Recount and Recover from Your Losses after a Fire, Flood, Earthquake, Hurricane, or Tornado) offers advice from previous disaster survivors as well as personal finance and insurance experts. It contains recovery tips, tax advice and step-by-step guidelines for dealing with insurance companies to help victims receive an optimal claim recovery. It also provides detailed lists of items commonly found in households and tips for reconstructing the contents of a destroyed home" -- publisher website (August 2007).
"Disasters and the Law: Katrina and Beyond" studies disaster response, prevention, and mitigation strategies by integrating knowledge and experience from urban planning, bankruptcy law, and wetlands law.
A CBO Study. Analyzes proposals for federal reinsurance of risks from terrorism and natural disasters. Policymakers have developed two types of federal proposals to increase the supply of property and casualty insurance.
This applied study addresses the large flood exposures of Central Europe and proposes efficient financial and risk transfer mechanisms to mitigate fiscal losses from such natural catastrophes.