Natural Disasters and Adaptive Capacity:

Natural disasters (droughts, earthquakes, epidemics, floods, wind storms) damage wellbeing, both in their immediate and long-term aftermath, and because the insecurity of exposure to disasters is in itself harmful to risk-averse people. As such, mitigating and coping with the risk of natural disaste...

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1. Verfasser: Dayton-Johnson, Jeff (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Paris OECD Publishing 2004
Schriftenreihe:OECD Development Centre Working Papers
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Zusammenfassung:Natural disasters (droughts, earthquakes, epidemics, floods, wind storms) damage wellbeing, both in their immediate and long-term aftermath, and because the insecurity of exposure to disasters is in itself harmful to risk-averse people. As such, mitigating and coping with the risk of natural disasters is a pressing issue for economic development. This paper provides a conceptual framework for understanding natural disasters. Disasters, which imply tragic human costs, are distinguished from hazards, which are events like earthquakes or flooding: hazards only translate into disasters when societies are vulnerable to them. Consequently international development policy can play a role in reducing the costs of disasters by addressing vulnerability. A review of two recent disasters - the Turkish earthquakes of 1999, and Hurricane Mitch in 1998 - illustrates the importance of precarious urbanisation and environmental degradation for increased vulnerability to natural hazards. These cases ...
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (45 Seiten) 21 x 29.7cm
DOI:10.1787/827805005406

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