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Natural disaster
About: Natural disaster is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5456 publications have been published within this topic receiving 104808 citations. The topic is also known as: natural calamity & natural hazard.
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TL;DR: The authors explored how social capital or the impact of life and previous disaster experience facilitated resilience in older adults who experienced the 2011 and 2013 floods in Brisbane, Australia and found a strong theme of resilience linked to social capital.
Abstract: Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore how social capital or the impact of life and previous disaster experience facilitated resilience in older adults who experienced the 2011 and 2013 floods in Brisbane, Australia Methods: Data for this study were drawn from the in-depth interviews of 10 older adults from Brisbane, who were evacuated in both the 2011 and 2013 floods A combined qualitative approach drawing from the methods of constructivist grounded theory (CGT) and narrative inquiry was applied and data was analysed using (inductive) line-by-line and axial coding Results: The narratives of the older adults revealed a strong theme of resilience linked to social capital (bonding, bridging, and linking) and previous disaster experience The results reflected the changing face of disaster management strategies and sources of social capital Conclusions: Changes in disaster management polices (towards self-reliance) and more formalised sources of social capital highlight the need to build strong and healthy resilient communities that are capable of positively recovering from natural disasters The results from this research emphasise the importance of initiatives that enhance social cohesion, trust and social capital within local communities
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TL;DR: The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake highlights some of the successes of government-led schemes to mitigate the impact of natural disasters as mentioned in this paper, and a stronger focus on individuals and local communities could reduce losses even further in the future.
Abstract: The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake highlights some of the successes of government-led schemes to mitigate the impact of natural disasters. A stronger focus on individuals and local communities could reduce losses even further in the future.
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TL;DR: In this article, a brief introduction of the effects of typhoons and tropical storms on Vietnam, focusing in particular on the coastal region of Nam Dinh, a province in the northern part of the country and part of its Red River Delta, is given.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effect of a country's own past disaster experiences and nearby countries' past experiences on subsequent disaster damage and found evidence of a reduction effect of past disaster damage on future disaster damage.
Abstract: This paper examines the effect of a country’s own past disaster experiences and nearby countries’ past experiences on subsequent disaster damage. We use global disaster data from 1990 to 2010, which include disaster-related death tolls for both natural and technological disasters that are further divided into sub-categories. Overall, we find evidence of a reduction effect of past disaster damage on future disaster damage. More detailed analyses show that an adaptation effect seems to be present for certain combinations of disaster types and levels of economic development. The results show that a country’s own experiences reduce future damage for natural disasters but that the marginal effect is larger for lower-income countries. On the other hand, for technological disasters, a robust impact of experiences was found only in higher-income countries. In terms of the disaster experiences of nearby countries, the adaptation effect was found only for natural disasters, and the marginal impact was relatively higher for higher-income countries.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors conduct an analysis of the socioeconomic determinants of Vietnam's cross-provincial variations in natural disaster vulnerability, and they find that much of the variation can be explained by differences in key socioeconomic factors such as inequality, poverty and infant mortality.
Abstract: This paper conducts an analysis of the socioeconomic determinants of Vietnam's cross-provincial variations in natural disaster vulnerability. The purpose is twofold: (i) to capture disaggregated vulnerability variations normally obscured by national statistics, thereby providing more nuanced insights into Vietnam's vulnerability to natural disasters; and (ii) to take advantage of the fact that the overall political system and key institutional structures to a large extent are constant across Vietnam's provinces, which makes the analysis a novel addition to the many disaster studies based on cross-national variations. The paper's analysis indicates that much of Vietnam's cross-provincial variations in natural disaster fatalities and economic costs can be explained by differences in key socioeconomic factors. High provincial rates of inequality, poverty and infant mortality, for instance, appear to drive up natural disaster fatalities. Local adaptation efforts should focus as much on these broader socioeconomic dimensions as they focus on the geophysical susceptibility to natural hazards of individual areas.
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