Natural Disaster Death and Sosio-Economic Factors in Selected Asian Countries: A Panel Analysis

Padli, Jaharudin; Habibullah, Muzafar Shah

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“…The statistical analysis in Kellenberg and Mobarak () reveals that rising income level increases damage risk in the early stage of economic development, but it decreases damage in the later stage. Padli and Habibullah () find, through their panel analysis of Asian countries, that higher per capita GDP tends to produce smaller human damage when disasters strike. These studies point to the fact that the best mitigation against natural disasters is economic development.…”

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Japan's Post‐Disaster Economic Reconstruction: From Kobe to Tohoku

Hayashi

2012

Asian Economic Journal

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The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of how economic reconstruction is carried out after major natural disasters in Japan, where disaster casualties have been declining but economic damage has been increasing over the past century. The Kobe and Tohoku earthquakes were exceptionally rare incidents. The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake (Kobe) on 17 January 1995 killed more than 6000 people, and the Great East Japan Earthquake (Tohoku) on 11 March 2011 killed approximately 18 000 people. We will recapitulate the post-disaster reconstruction process in Kobe and draw lessons for Tohoku. After discussing the relative magnitude of economic damage, public and private finance for reconstruction, political leadership and the role of the academic community, we conclude that post-disaster reconstruction means a whole new process of economic development for the affected people, the communities and the nation alike.No man is an island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. (John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624), 'Meditation XVII') 1

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Section: Asia As a Disaster‐prone Regionmentioning

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Japan's Post‐Disaster Economic Reconstruction: From Kobe to Tohoku

Hayashi

2012

Asian Economic Journal

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“…Moreover, since we are interested in collecting coefficients and/or t-statistics of the variables considered, empirical works using vector autoregressive models and inputoutput analyses could not be included since the former reported the impulse response functions only and not the short and long-term coefficients while the results of the input output analyses by design do not provide the standard errors or t values that we need in our meta analysis. Finally, we excluded the studies of Padli et al (2009) This section first discusses the variables included in the meta dataset and then sets out the econometric approach that we follow in the meta analysis.…”

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“…For example, Rasmussen (2004) and Heger et al (2008) analyzed the Caribbean economies because the Caribbean is highly affected by natural hazards. Cavallo & Noy (2010) and Padli & Habibullah (2009) identify the Asia-Pacific region as the area with more disasters. In contrast, Strömberg (2007) argues that exposure to natural hazards is the same for high and low income areas.…”

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Natural disasters' impact, factors of resilience and development: A meta-analysis of the macroeconomic literature

Lazzaroni

Bergeijk

2014

Ecological Economics

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“…Not only were educated individuals more likely to survive and had a lower risk of injuries e.g. from the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami 71,72 , communities and countries with higher average levels of education also experienced much lower losses in human lives from climate-related disasters 60,62,65,73 . The protective role of education further extends to morbidity associated with natural hazards, especially mental health with more highly educated individuals showing a lower prevalence of distress, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder following a disaster 71,[74][75][76] .…”

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Forecasting societies' adaptive capacities through a demographic metabolism model

Lutz

Muttarak

2017

Nature Clim Change

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In seeking to understand how future societies will be affected by climate change we cannot simply assume they will be identical to those of today, because climate and societies are both dynamic. Here we propose that the concept of demographic metabolism and the associated methods of multidimensional population projections provide an effective analytical toolbox to forecast important aspects of societal change that affect adaptive capacity. We present an example of how the changing educational composition of future populations can influence societies' adaptive capacity. Multi-dimensional population projections form the human core of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways scenarios, and knowledge and analytical tools from demography have great value in assessing the likely implications of climate change on future human well-being. 3Assessing the likely impacts of climate change on future human well-being requires a combination of two kinds of forecasts: how the climate of the future will be different from that of today; and how humans and there societies in the future will differ in terms of numbers, regional distributions, age structures and, most importantly, their capacities to successfully adapt to changing climatic conditions. This includes capacities at multiple levels from individual, to household, community and national level as well as the associated qualities of institutions and levels of economic development. Much work has been carried out in terms of modelling the future climatic conditions 1-3 , but very little has been done for modelling the future socioeconomic conditions. Successful adaptation is also dependent on the qualities of institutions and levels of economic development. In this Perspective, we discuss recent progress in the latter field, especially in the demographic metabolism model and illustrate the potential of multi-dimensional demographic methods for forecasting societies' adaptive capacities to climate change.The Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report appropriately summarizes what was the state of the art on this issue: "Most scenario-based assessments superimpose biophysical 'futures' onto present-day socioeconomic conditions." 4 . While this

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Natural Disaster Death and Sosio-Economic Factors in Selected Asian Countries: A Panel Analysis

Cited by 29 publications

References 13 publications

Japan's Post‐Disaster Economic Reconstruction: From Kobe to Tohoku

Japan's Post‐Disaster Economic Reconstruction: From Kobe to Tohoku

Natural disasters' impact, factors of resilience and development: A meta-analysis of the macroeconomic literature

Forecasting societies' adaptive capacities through a demographic metabolism model

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