Showing papers on "Natural disaster published in 1982"
TL;DR: There is a need both for a broader framework for analysis of disasters and for strategies to reduce such vulnerability to be an Integral part of long term development planning.
Abstract: This paper argues that natural disasters are not a category of events which can be separated from the broader Issues of development, since economic change can create vulnerability to natural disaster. The analysis of case studies from the Dominican Republic shows how the development of large scale commercialized agricultural production has created such vulnerability by reducing or restricting the resource base of certain sectors of the population. It b suggested that the vulnerable state of a population should be considered as much a cause of natural disaster as the extreme physical phenomena Involved. Therefore there Is a need both for a broader framework for analysis of disasters and for strategies to reduce such vulnerability to be an Integral part of long term development planning.
23 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, a case study of the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Laki in 1783, a major disaster which killed nine thousand people, is presented, where the population rapidly recovered however and a replacement of settlement took place in sites peripheral to the lava.
Abstract: In comparison with research on contemporary natural hazards little is known about response to historic disasters or about long-term processes of adaptation to impacts on population and settlement patterns. This paper describes a case study of the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Laki in 1783 a major disaster which killed nine thousand people....The population rapidly recovered however and a replacement of settlement took place in sites peripheral to the lava. The paper places the eruption within a physical environmental political and economic context and describes the event and its impacts on the basis of contemporary accounts and statistical data on population and settlement. Further questions for research on past natural disasters are suggested. (EXCERPT)
15 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify ways for the adjustment of assumed or inherited priorities for development, to take practical account of continuing hazards in two very different but complementary projects, in Tonga and Algeria.
11 citations
TL;DR: Results indicated that respondents who were highly fearful of the disaster were more likely than moderate or low fear respondents to believe that: a) additional flooding would occur in their vicinity, and b) that they resided closer to the flood zone than they actually did.
Abstract: This research was designed to examine the cognitive and affective responses of residential dwellers in the aftermath of a natural disaster (a flood). In a 2 X 3 factorial design, the effects of fear (High, Medium, and Low) and sex on perceptions of the disaster were assessed. The results indicated that respondents who were highly fearful of the disaster were more likely than moderate or low fear respondents to believe that: a) additional flooding would occur in their vicinity, and b) that they resided closer to the flood zone than they actually did. The policy implications of the results suggested that post-disaster mental health services might have to be extended to include residents of geographical areas not directly affected by natural or man-made disasters. Language: en
9 citations