Introduction / Michael Oborne -- Ch. 1. Lessons learned / Reza Lahidji -- Ch. 2. Key issues. 1. Economic recovery from past disasters / Patrick Lenain ; 2. Budgetary impact / Patrick Lenain ; 3. Impact on insurance and financial markets / Sebastian Schich ; 4. An insurance perspective on disaster management / Cécile Vignial-Denain ; Compensation issues / Cécile Vignial-Denain ; 6. Housing and reconstruction / Josef Konvitz ; 7. Lessons learned from nuclear accidents / Edward Lazo -- Ch. 3. Case Study. The 1999 Marmara earthquakes in Turkey / Vedat Akgiray, Gula Barbarasoglu and Mustafa Erdik -- Bibliography of recent OECD work in related areas