Laura Bakkensen

Programs/Projects

• Natural Disaster Adaptation
• Climate Change Impacts
• Risk and Adaptation

Selected Publications

• Bakkensen, L., C. Fox-Lent, L. Read, and I. Linkov.  Valdating resilience and vulnerability indices in the context of natural disasters.  Forthcoming in Risk Analysis.
• Bakkensen, L. and R. Mendelsohn, 2016. Risk and adaptation: Evidence from global hurricane damages and fatalities. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 3(3): 555-587.
• Seo, N. and L. Bakkensen, 2016. Did adaptation strategies work? High fatalities from tropical cyclones in the North Indian Ocean and future vulnerability under global warming. Natural Hazards, 1-15 (published online Feb. 29, 2016). http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11069-016-2250-z 
• Bakkensen, L., and W. Larson, 2014. Population matters when modeling hurricane fatalities, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(50):E5331-E5332.
• Mendelsohn, R., K. Emanuel, S. Chonabayashi, and L. Bakkensen, 2012. The impact of climate change on global tropical cyclone damage. Nature Climate Change, 2(2): 1-5.