Socio-economic consequences of post-disaster reconstruction in hazard-exposed areas

McCaughey, Jamie; Daly, Patrick; Mundir, Ibnu; Mahdi, Saiful; Patt, Anthony

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“…Recent disasters have shown the existence of large variance and disparities in recovery trajectories across communities that have experienced similar damage levels (Finch et al 2010;Aldrich 2012). We have witnessed manifold cases where cities experience significant loss of population even after sufficient recovery of infrastructure systems (Myers et al 2008;McCaughey et al 2018). These case studies reveal the high complexity of the recovery of cities, where both the inter-city dependencies and intra-city coupling of social and physical systems may affect the recovery outcomes in an unforeseen and non-linear manner (Klammler et al 2018;Aerts et al 2018).…”

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“…Post disaster population displacement and recovery patterns on the city scale have long been studied based on surveys and census data (McCaughey et al 2018;Cutter et al 2008;Gray and Mueller 2012;Finch et al 2010;Fussell et al 2014;DeWaard et al 2016;Sadri et al 2018;Piguet et al 2011). Such studies reveal factors that are associated with displacement and recovery; however, they often neglect the effect of interdependencies between cities.…”

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Mobile phone data reveals the importance of pre-disaster inter-city social ties for recovery after Hurricane Maria

Yabe

Rao

2019

Appl Netw Sci

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Recent disasters have shown the existence of large variance in recovery trajectories across cities that have experienced similar damage levels. Case studies of such events reveal the high complexity of the recovery process of cities, where inter-city dependencies and intra-city coupling of social and physical systems may affect the outcomes in unforeseen ways. Despite the large implications of understanding the recovery processes of cities after disasters for many domains including critical services, disaster management, and public health, little work have been performed to unravel this complexity. Rather, works are limited to analyzing and modeling cities as independent entities, and have largely neglected the effect that inter-city connectivity may have on the recovery of each city. Large scale mobility data (e.g. mobile phone data, social media data) have enabled us to observe human mobility patterns within and across cities with high spatial and temporal granularity. In this paper, we investigate how inter-city dependencies in both physical as well as social forms contribute to the recovery performances of cities after disasters, through a case study of the population recovery patterns of 78 Puerto Rican counties after Hurricane Maria using mobile phone location data. Various network metrics are used to quantify the types of inter-city dependencies that play an important role for effective post-disaster recovery. We find that inter-city social connectivity, which is measured by pre-disaster mobility patterns, is crucial for quicker recovery after Hurricane Maria. More specifically, counties that had more influx and outflux of people prior to the hurricane, were able to recover faster. Our findings highlight the importance of fostering the social connectivity between cities to prepare effectively for future disasters. This paper introduces a new perspective in the community resilience literature, where we take into account the inter-city dependencies in the recovery process rather than analyzing each community as independent entities.

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Mobile phone data reveals the importance of pre-disaster inter-city social ties for recovery after Hurricane Maria

Yabe

Rao

2019

Appl Netw Sci

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“…Affluent locations in a coastal town may become unattractive for living as floods become repetitive and signal the extent of risk when affecting a large share of local properties [23]. Housing markets drift into a new regime when damages lead to a drop in the aggregate demand, when market recovery does not occur smoothly, and when some people rush to relocate into safe zones while others remain trapped in the hazard zones [50].…”

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Repetitive floods intensify outmigration and climate gentrification in coastal cities

Koning

Filatova

2020

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Recent floods in America, Europe, Asia and Africa reminded societies across the world of the need to revisit their climate adaptation strategies. Rapid urbanization coinciding with a growing frequency and intensity of floods requires transformative actions in cities worldwide. While abandoning flood prone areas is sometimes discussed as a public climate adaptation option, little attention is paid to studying cumulative impacts of outmigration as an individual choice. To explore the aggregated consequences of households' outmigration decisions in response to increasing flood hazards, we employ a computational agent-based model grounded in empirical heuristics of buyers' and sellers' behaviour in a flood-prone housing market. Our results suggest that pure market-driven processes can cause shifts in demographics in climate-sensitive hotspots placing low-income households further at risk. They get trapped in hazard zones, even when individual risk perceptions and behavioural location preferences are independent of income, suggesting increasing climate gentrification as an outcome of market sorting.

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“…Many coastal countries are facing devastating typhoon-associated hazards leading to fatalities and severe damage to societal well-being (McCaughey et al, 2018;Reed et al, 2015;Sakai et al, 2017). The grave consequences of these disasters appear to be more critical in developing countries as compared to developed ones due to ill-equipped management and lack of appropriate disaster-related information (Carleton & Hsiang, 2016;McCaughey et al, 2018;Zscheischler et al, 2018). Recently, coastal communities are becoming more prone to extreme typhoons-winds of >33 m/s (Mei & Xie, 2016;Peduzzi et al, 2012).…”

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Integrating Typhoon Destructive Potential and Social‐Ecological Systems Toward Resilient Coastal Communities

Sajjad

et al. 2019

Earth's Future

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The resilience of coastal communities becomes a critical issue of the social-ecological system adapting to impacts from hazards on coastal well-being. This paper formulates a framework integrating typhoon destructive potential and social-ecological system from a perspective of coastal resilience. Typhoon destructive potential is interpreted using the Power Dissipation Index as a metric. We use the distributional models in geographic information systems to identify the spatial hotspots of high Power Dissipation Index along the coast of Mainland China. Furthermore, we evaluate the community resilience in all identified hotspots with place-based indicators within five potential dimensions (Social, Ecological, Institutional, Economic, and Safety). Though the results show no significant long-term trends in the typhoon destructive potential, statistically significant interdecadal variations are identified in different hotspots during 1949-2014. The resilience assessment results reveal that ecological (predisaster defense) and safety resilience (postdisaster support) are critical issues in achieving coastal community resilience. We argue that improving the ecological stewardship (having great predisaster defense) and adopting integrated approaches contribute to resilience enhancement, providing opportunities to support all the dimensions of community resilience via improving the social-economic-ecological nexus. The integration of typhoon destructive potential and social-ecological system helps to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 13 through risk-informed decision-making. The results from this study have important policy implications for local-scale planning incorporating place-based indicators.Plain Language Summary Tropical cyclones pose serious threats to human well-being globally.Governments and policymakers are particularly interested in risk reduction through effective risk-informed planning and resilience enhancement. To facilitate this, we formulate a framework integrating hazard behavior-explained by landfalling typhoon intensity-and social-ecological systems, which enables us to identify the Power Dissipation Index-based hotspots of typhoon destructive potential. These hotspots are further evaluated for the community resilience assessment to inform the decision makers. While the results show no significant overall increasing trend in typhoon destructive potential for most of the hotspot regions during the study period , interdecadal variations are found, with a significant increasing trend for some regions (90% confidence). It is important to note that the results from the resilience assessment show that many communities lack in the ecological and safety dimensions of community resilience, which is critical. We recommend an improved ecological stewardship for community resilience enhancement. Adopting the proposed framework can also attribute toward Sustainable Development Goal 13 achievement through the corrective decision-making for risk reduction related policy implications.

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Socio-economic consequences of post-disaster reconstruction in hazard-exposed areas

Cited by 74 publications

References 37 publications

Mobile phone data reveals the importance of pre-disaster inter-city social ties for recovery after Hurricane Maria

Mobile phone data reveals the importance of pre-disaster inter-city social ties for recovery after Hurricane Maria

Repetitive floods intensify outmigration and climate gentrification in coastal cities

Integrating Typhoon Destructive Potential and Social‐Ecological Systems Toward Resilient Coastal Communities

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