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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: In this article, a quasi-experimental difference-in-differences approach was used to analyze the effects of the combined disaster on people's subjective well-being, finding that people living in a place affected by the tsunami or close to the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant experienced a drop in life happiness, while the effects declined with distance to the place of the disaster.
Abstract: Based on a quasi-experimental difference-in-differences approach, we use panel data for 5979 individuals interviewed in Japan before and after the tsunami and nuclear accident at Fukushima to analyze the effects of the combined disaster on people's subjective well-being. To conduct our analysis, we use Geographical Information Systems to merge the subjective well-being data with information on respondents' distance from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, their proximity to nuclear power stations in general, and the spatial distribution of radioactive fallout after the accident. Our main findings are as follows: (1) After the disaster, people living in a place affected by the tsunami or close to the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant experienced a drop in life happiness, while the effects declined with distance to the place of the disaster. (2) No change in subjective well-being is detectable in people living close to nuclear facilities in general. (3) In contrast to happiness with life after the disaster, no effect on people's happiness with their entire life can be found among those affected by the disaster. (4) The drop in life happiness in municipalities affected by the tsunami is equivalent to 72% of annual income and reaches 240% for those living in close distance to the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant (<= 150 km). (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

90 citations

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TL;DR: This research emphasises the value of social media analysis and proposes an analytical framework: Twitter Situational Awareness (TwiSA), which uses text mining methods including sentiment analysis and topic modelling to create a better SA for disaster preparedness, response and recovery.
Abstract: In recent years, we have been faced with a series of natural disasters causing a tremendous amount of financial, environmental and human losses. The unpredictable nature of natural disasters behavi...

89 citations

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TL;DR: A systematic press database on natural hazards and climate change in Catalonia (NE of Spain) is introduced and its potential application to social-impact studies is analyzed to show an example of the role of the press information as indicator of risk perception.
Abstract: . The aim of this work is to introduce a systematic press database on natural hazards and climate change in Catalonia (NE of Spain) and to analyze its potential application to social-impact studies. For this reason, a review of the concepts of risk, hazard, vulnerability and social perception is also included. This database has been built for the period 1982–2007 and contains all the news related with those issues published by the oldest still-active newspaper in Catalonia. Some parameters are registered for each article and for each event, including criteria that enable us to determine the importance accorded to it by the newspaper, and a compilation of information about it. This ACCESS data base allows each article to be classified on the basis of the seven defined topics and key words, as well as summary information about the format and structuring of the new itself, the social impact of the event and data about the magnitude or intensity of the event. The coverage given to this type of news has been assessed because of its influence on construction of the social perception of natural risk and climate change, and as a potential source of information about them. The treatment accorded by the press to different risks is also considered. More than 14 000 press articles have been classified. Results show that the largest number of news items for the period 1982–2007 relates to forest fires and droughts, followed by floods and heavy rainfalls, although floods are the major risk in the region of study. Two flood events recorded in 2002 have been analyzed in order to show an example of the role of the press information as indicator of risk perception.

89 citations

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Rohan Samarajiva1
TL;DR: The conditions for the supply of effective early warnings of disasters are examined, drawing from the experience of both the 26 December 2004 tsunami and the false warnings issued after another great earthquake in the Sunda Trench on 28 March 2005.
Abstract: The Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004 was one of the greatest natural disasters; it was also the first internet-mediated natural disaster. Despite the presumed ubiquity and power of advanced technologies including satellites and the internet, no advance warning was given to the affected coastal populations by their governments or others. This article examines the conditions for the supply of effective early warnings of disasters, drawing from the experience of both the 26 December 2004 tsunami and the false warnings issued after another great earthquake in the Sunda Trench on 28 March 2005. The potential of information and communication technologies for prompt communication of hazard detection and monitoring information and for effective dissemination of alert and warning messages is examined. The factors contributing to the absence of institutions necessary for the realization of that potential are explored.

89 citations

Book
01 Jan 1989
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a classification scheme for community disaster: the social and community contexts of disaster, human responses and treatment needs in airline disasters, nature and effects of technological failures, crime, violence, and terrorism.
Abstract: Part 1 Foundations for the study of community disaster: the social and community contexts of disaster a classification scheme for disasters. Part 2 Types of disaster: natural disasters human responses and treatment needs in airline disasters the nature and effects of technological failures crime, violence, and terrorism. Part 3 Approaches to intervention: factors influencing help-seeking for mental health problems after disasters mental health and disaster: preventative approaches to intervention clinical responses to disaster: assessment, management and treatment planning and integrating disaster response. Part 4 Other issues: legal issues and public policy in the psychology of disasters evaluation and research issues in assessing disaster's effects. Epilogue: rebuilding and strengthening communities.

88 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20249
2023861
20221,970
2021293
2020348
2019337