Worldwide disaster loss and damage databases: A systematic review

Mazhin, Sadegh Ahmadi; Farrokhi, Mehrdad; Noroozi, Mehdi; Roudini, Juliet; Hosseini, Seyed Ali; Motlagh, Mohammad Esmaeil; Kolivand, Pirhossein; Khankeh, Hamidreza

doi:10.4103/jehp.jehp_1525_20

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“…In general, we noticed a shift from "distant" impacts on animals (such as diminishing habitats for ice bears and penguins) to massive natural disasters like floods, wild fires, or droughts. Although 2021 was a record year in climate-related disasters 18 , this is not reflected in the attention to the Impacts theme, indicating that Twitter users seem to have other priorities in the climate change discourse, or that many regional events are not picked up in our English-language sample.…”

Section: Divergence In the Recovery For Different Themesmentioning

confidence: 92%

Attention to climate change only temporarily diverted by COVID-19

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Callaghan

Lamb

et al. 2023

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The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted peoples’ daily lives and dominated the public discourse. It thus displaced people’s attention to and concerns about climate change. We analyze 13.5 million tweets on climate change posted before and after the onset of the pandemic (2018–2021) and show that attention to climate dropped substantially in 2020 with the onset of the pandemic. While research has helped to explain this drop in the context of issue attention theory, our analysis highlights a remarkable recovery in attention in 2021 towards pre-pandemic levels. Moreover, our large-scale, transformer-based text analysis reveals important thematic shifts during this period. In particular, we show a sustained drop in attention to activist movements and subsequently an increased focus on climate causes and climate solutions. This means, that while the climate change discourse in general recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, activist movements such as the school protests that have mobilized millions around the globe in 2019 have measurably lost traction on Twitter.

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Section: Divergence In the Recovery For Different Themesmentioning

confidence: 92%

Attention to climate change only temporarily diverted by COVID-19

Repke

Callaghan

Lamb

et al. 2023

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“…We conducted a cross-sectional analysis on disaster events the Emergency Events Database EM-DAT (18). EM-DAT is a free open access disaster database, considering disasters from all over the world (19). We included listed events between January 2000 and December 2023 in Central Europe, which was defined as Germany and bordering countries (Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, and Poland).…”

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Perennial Disaster Patterns in Central Europe since 2000: Implications for Hospital Preparedness Planning – A cross sectional Analysis

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Dietrich,

Schmitt

et al. 2024

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IntroductionHospitals are vital components of a country’s critical infrastructure, essential for maintaining resilient public services. Emergency planning for hospitals is crucial to ensure their functionality under special circumstances. The impact of climate change and seasonal variations in the utilization of hospital services further complicate emergency planning. Therefore, the knowledge of perennial disaster patterns could help strengthening the resilience of health care facilities.MethodsWe conducted a cross-sectional analysis of the Emergency Events Database EM-DAT for disasters in Central Europe between January 2000 and December 2023 (defined as Germany and bordering countries). Primary endpoint was the average month of occurrence of disasters across the overall study period.ResultsOut of 474 events, 83% were associated with a natural cause and only 80 events (=17%) were technological. More than 50 % of the technological disasters were categorized in the transport accident subgroup. Technological disasters were spread equally over the whole year. The vast majority of natural disasters (N=394) were due to storm (n=178, 45%), flood (n=101, 26%) and extreme temperatures (n=93, 24%) with peaks occurring during summer and winter months, while less disasters were registered during autumn and especially spring seasons.DiscussionLooking at the three most common disaster types, extreme temperatures, floods, and storms are clearly dominating and cause over 90% of the natural disasters in central Europe. An overlap of hospital admissions due to seasonal effects and catastrophic events, mainly triggered by natural disasters in the vulnerable periods may lead to a partial collapse of the health care system. To deal with such a variety of different and potentially simultaneous hazards using an “all hazards” approach could be promising and often has been seen as the most effective strategy for hospital emergency planning.

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“…Understanding disaster risk in all its dimensions of vulnerability, capacity, exposure of persons and assets, hazard characteristics and the environment must be the basis for more effective disaster risk management in the future. Paradoxically, while our knowledge of the physical aspects of hazards is increasing, much of that knowledge is not being used effectively or at a scale to ensure robust decision-making beyond While global disaster databases are important, they have biases regarding the types of risk, time span, accounting, thresholds and spatial coverage resolution (Moriyama et al 2018, Mazhin et al 2021. These are obstacles to science-based analyses of the drivers, impacts and the effectiveness of DRR policies.…”

Section: Priority 1: Understanding Disaster Riskmentioning

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Report for the Mid-Term Review of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

2023

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Worldwide disaster loss and damage databases: A systematic review

Cited by 30 publications

References 27 publications

Attention to climate change only temporarily diverted by COVID-19

Attention to climate change only temporarily diverted by COVID-19

Perennial Disaster Patterns in Central Europe since 2000: Implications for Hospital Preparedness Planning – A cross sectional Analysis

Report for the Mid-Term Review of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

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