Austria

Hinghofer-Szalkay, Dagmar; Koch, Bernhard A.

doi:10.1007/3-211-33775-x_2

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“…These payments are usually not merely aimed at the provision of public health (medical and mental health support at the moment of the disaster), but also occur at a later stage. They are usually intended to compensate people for property loss and, in some cases, are organized in a structured way—for example, in Belgium (Durant ) and Austria (Hinghofer‐Szalskay and Koch )—via a publicly financed disaster compensation fund that pays (limited) amounts of compensation to disaster victims. However, the most common way of compensating disaster victims (as part of recovery efforts) is on an ad hoc basis.…”

Section: Definitions: Precaution Relief and Recoverymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Economics of Disaster Relief

Dari‐Mattiacci¹,

Faure²

2015

Law & Policy

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We distinguish among three types of actions that can be taken to alleviate the consequences of natural disasters: precautionary efforts (made ex ante), relief efforts (made in the immediate aftermath of a disaster), and recovery efforts (made ex post). We argue that recognizing this distinction lessens many of the problems that the literature attributes to government intervention and hence expands the scope of government action following disasters. Relief is less likely than recovery to generate over-supply by the government and over-reliance by victims.

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Section: Definitions: Precaution Relief and Recoverymentioning

confidence: 99%