| Description |
259 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Analytical Framework. 1. Natural Disasters. 2. Disaster Situation. 3. Disaster Impact. 4. Disaster Responses. 5. Interference -- 2. Disaster Statistics and Patterns. 1. Data Sources: Institutional Problems. 2. Disaster Assessment: The Unreliability of Figures. 3. Global Patterns and Trends. 4. Sectoral Patterns of Direct Effects. 5. Patterns of Response Sources -- 3. Effects of Disaster Situations on Macroeconomic Variables. 1. A Sample of Disaster Situations. 2. Analysis. 3. Methodology. 4. Main Performance Aggregates. 5. Investment and Sectoral Outputs. 6. Public Finance. 7. Balance of Payments. 8. Conclusions -- 4. Vulnerability. 1. Physical Vulnerability: Description. 2. Social Vulnerability: Processes. 3. Overall Vulnerability. 4. Conclusions -- 5. Indirect Disaster Effects and In-built Responses. 1. Disarticulation of Household Conditions. 2. Disarticulation of the States of Health and Nutrition. 3. Disarticulation of the Economic Circuit |
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4. Disarticulation of Public Activities -- 6. Disaster-Response Motivations. 1. Individual Relief Motivation. 2. Public Motivation. 3. International Motivation. 4. Public and International Decision Processes -- 7. Final Effects on Output: A Simple Macromodel. 1. Main Rules of Natural Disasters. 2. Overall Effect of Capital Loss on Aggregate Output. 3. Overall Effect of Disaster Response on Aggregate Output. 4. Speed of Recovery. 5. UNDRO's 'ECLA Estimate' -- 8. Effects of Disaster Situations on Economy and Society. 1. A Record of Studies and Some Evidence. 2. General Observations about Effects |
| Notes |
This book sets out to develop a new framework for the analysis and understnding of large natural disasters occuring in developing countries in the last three decades, and their effects on the economy and society. A number of issues are addressed including the reliablity of current statistics about disasters, and the effects of disaster situations on the main economic aggregates. The author also looks at the importance of indirect disaster effects, the motivations of disaster reponse and the impact of both capital loss and disaster response on output. He assesses the minimum level of additional investment required to secure a balanced recovery, and the extent to which a society's structure and dynamics determine people's vulnerability to disasters. Finally, the overall effects of disaster situations on economy and society are considered. The author concludes that although disasters are primarly a problem of development, they are not necessarily a problem for development. What we should be looking at are the underlying social and economic processes within developing coutries which structure the impact of natural disasters, rather than at disasters as unforeseen events requiring large scale intervention |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-253) and index |
| Subject |
Disasters -- Developing countries.
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Disasters -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries.
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| Author |
Albala-Bertrand, J. M.
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| LC no. |
92028248 |
| ISBN |
0198287658 |
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