How Do People Cope with Natural Disasters? Evidence from the Great Hanshin‐Awaji (Kobe) Earthquake in 1995

Sawada, Yasuyuki; Shimizutani, Satoshi

doi:10.1111/j.1538-4616.2008.00122.x

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“…While macroeconomic studies have focused on the aggregate consequences of natural disasters (Cavallo, Powell, & Becerra, 2010), micro-level studies have mainly analysed the role of institutions, insurance, and coping strategies in the aftermath of natural disasters (Khandker, 2007;Sawada & Shimizutani, 2008).…”

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Trust and Reciprocity in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters

Fleming

Chong

Bejarano

2014

The Journal of Development Studies

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Beyond all the material and economic losses that natural disasters produce, post-disaster environments can alter the social capital of a community by affecting social norms, attitudes, and people's behaviour. To analyse this issue, we empirically investigate the effect that the aftermath of a disaster can have on trust and reciprocity of people within communities. We do this by comparing outcomes of trust games conducted in earthquake-affected and non-affected rural villages one year after the 2010 Chilean earthquake. Our findings show that while trust levels do not differ across cases, reciprocity is lower in earthquake-affected areas.

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Section: Disasters Trust and Reciprocitymentioning

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Trust and Reciprocity in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters

Fleming

Chong

Bejarano

2014

The Journal of Development Studies

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“…In this context, it is worth noting that whereas we focus on the impact on firm investment, the Kobe earthquake has also been used to examine the effect on household consumption and household borrowing constraints. An example is the study by Sawada and Shimizutani (), which finds that borrowing constraints played an important role in household consumption in the wake of the disaster.…”

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Natural Disasters, Damage to Banks, and Firm Investment

Hosono

Miyakawa

Uchino

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Int Economic Review

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This paper investigates the effect of banks' lending capacity on firms' capital investment. To overcome the difficulties in identifying purely exogenous shocks to firms' bank financing, we utilize the natural experiment provided by the Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) Earthquake in 1995. Using a unique firm-level dataset that allows us to identify firms and banks in the earthquake-affected area, together with information on bank-firm relationships, we find that the investment ratio of firms located outside of the earthquake-affected area but with their main banks inside the area was lower than that of firms that were both located and had their main banks outside of the area. This result implies that the weakened lending capacity of damaged banks exacerbated the borrowing constraints on the investment of their undamaged client firms. We also find that the negative impact is robust for two alternative measures of bank damage: that to the bank headquarters and that to the branch network. However, the impacts of the two are different in timing; while that of the former emerged immediately after the earthquake, the latter emerged with a one-year lag.

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“…Sawada and Shimizutani (2005) point out that when the 1995 earthquake hit Kobe, Japan, ''…only 3% of the property in the Hyogo Prefecture, where Kobe is located, was covered by earthquake insurance …'' (p. 2). Given the more limited economic base and lower levels of GDP in Pacific island nations, it is reasonable to conclude that their ability to recover from severe weather impacts will be more constrained than in a nation with a wealthier and more diversified economy.…”

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Paradise lost? Pacific island archives threatened by climate change

Gordon-Clark¹

2011

Arch Sci

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Over the past 10 years, a clear pattern of increasing sea-level rises has been recorded across the Pacific region. As international work progresses on climate change, it is becoming clear that the expected rise of sea levels will have significant impacts upon low-lying islands and nations. Sea-level rises of less than 0.5 m are generally suggested, although some researchers have made more drastic projections. This paper describes the second stage of research into the impacts of climate change upon the national archival collections in low-lying Pacific islands and nations. This article follows on the argument that archival collection relocation will be necessary and sets the boundaries for further research. It will summarize current research into climate change models and predicted sea-level rises, identify Pacific islands and nations that will be the focus of detailed further research by setting a range of research boundaries based on the known geography of nations within the Pacific, arguing for a specific measurement of ''low-elevation'', outlining other risk factors likely to affect the survival of threatened national archival collections and naming those islands and nations that are thus deemed to be at greatest risk of flooding and thus likely to need to relocate their archives. The goal is to demonstrate how archivists might inform the governmental policy in threatened islands and nations as well as what other nations might do to offer assistance.

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How Do People Cope with Natural Disasters? Evidence from the Great Hanshin‐Awaji (Kobe) Earthquake in 1995

Cited by 129 publications

References 30 publications

Trust and Reciprocity in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters

Trust and Reciprocity in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters

Natural Disasters, Damage to Banks, and Firm Investment

Paradise lost? Pacific island archives threatened by climate change

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