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Economic Effects of Natural Disasters

Theoretical Foundations, Methods, and Tools

  • 1st Edition - October 9, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Taha Chaiechi
  • Language: English

Economic Effects of Natural Disasters explores how natural disasters affect sources of economic growth and development. Using theoretical econometrics and real-world data, and dr… Read more

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Description

Economic Effects of Natural Disasters explores how natural disasters affect sources of economic growth and development. Using theoretical econometrics and real-world data, and drawing on advances in climate change economics, the book shows scholars and researchers how to use various research methods and techniques to investigate and respond to natural disasters. No other book presents empirical frameworks for the evaluation of the quality of macroeconomic research practice with a focus on climate change and natural disasters. Because many of these subjects are so large, different regions of the world use different approaches, hence this resource presents tailored economic applications and evidence.

Key features

  • Connects economic theories and empirical work in climate change to natural disaster research
  • Shows how advances in climate change and natural disaster research can be implemented in micro- and macroeconomic simulation models
  • Addresses structural changes in countries afflicted by climate change and natural disasters

Readership

Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers who work on the economic analysis of climate change, climate change mitigation, natural disasters, and disaster risk reduction

Table of contents

    1. NDRRA funding on the regional economy

    2. The Effects of Natural Disasters on Stock Market Return and Volatility in Hong Kong

    3. Climate change and effects: A qualitative experience of selected older adults

    4. Natural disasters and labour markets: impact of cyclones on the Industries of Far Northern Australia: the case of agricultural businesses.

    5. Natural Disasters, Geography and International Tourism

    6. Economic Dimension of Climate Change on Women

    7. FDI, Natural Disasters and Economic Growth of Host Countries

    8. Mitigating Impact from Natural Disasters, Building Resilience in Tourism: The Case of Kerala

    9. Showcasing entrepreneurs’ responses to severe drought

    10. The influence of environmental pollution and drought on the satisfaction with life of entrepreneurs in Zambia’s mining sector

    11. Environmental resilience of BoP strategies towards single use plastics: A recipe from an emerging economy

    12. Semantic Technologies for Disaster Management: Network Models and Methods of Diagrammatic Reasoning

    13. Methods and Insights on How to Explore Human Behaviour in the Disaster Environment

    14. State-wide effects of natural disasters on the labour market

    15. Costing a natural disaster: An accounting perspective

    16. Typical social adaptation measures in climate change planning

    17. The impact of natural disasters on agriculture: Evidence from Vietnam

    18. Economic Impact Assessment of Natural Disasters Using DEMATEL Method

    19. Climate Change and Natural Disasters: Macroeconomic Performance and Sustainable Development

    20. Natural Disasters: Macroeconomic Implications and Measurement Issues

    21. The Asian Tsunami and Tourism: Impact and Recovery

    22. Effect of Drought on Development of Children: Field Observations from drought prone district of Deccan Plateau of Southern India

    23. Flood Disasters In Aba North Local Government Area Of Abia State, Nigeria: Policy Options

    24. Institutional Response And Mechanisms To The Management Of Natural Disaster In Nigeria

    25. Challenges of Addressing Natural Disasters through Public Policy Implementation: An Examination of Isiukwuato Erosion Menace and the Ecological Fund

    26. Ecological And Economic Costs Of Oil Spills In Niger Delta Nigeria

    27. Socio- economic vulnerability to urban floods in Guwahati, Northeast India: An indicator based approach

    28. Agricultural production and income in a disaster year: Findings from the study of Melalinjippattu village affected by cyclone Thane

    29. Socio-economic vulnerabilities to natural disasters and social justice

    30. Alternative scenarios for low carbon transport in Nigeria: a LEAP model application

    31. Do Natural Disasters Reduce Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa?

    32. Integrating climate change adaptation and vulnerability reduction for sustainable development in South Asia and Africa

    33. Assessing the social vulnerability to floods in India: An application of Super Efficiency Data Envelopment Analysis and Spatial Autocorrelation to analyze Bihar floods

    34. Economic Effects of Natural Disasters, Valuing drought and flood impacts through well-being approaches

    35. Economic Consequences of Slow and Fast Onset Natural Disasters: Empirical Evidences from India

Review quotes

"Thirty-five papers explore the mechanism through which natural disasters affect sources of economic growth and development, presenting a framework for capturing different economic sectors’ responses to devastating natural disasters using theoretical econometrics and real-world data."—Journal of Economic Literature

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 16, 2020
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Taha Chaiechi

Dr. Taha Chaiechi is Australia Director, Centre for International Trade and Business in Asia, at JCU where she is also an Associate Professor of Economics. In the past several years, Taha has contributed to the governance and the Teaching and Learning profile of the College in different capacities. Taha served JCU as the Head, Economics and Marketing Academic Group from October 2014 to March 2019, she is also the Program Convener for Master of Economics. Furthermore, she served the University in the acting position of Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching from July 2018 to January 2019. Taha is an expert in systematic modeling of dynamic relationships between economic, environmental, and social variables. Taha’s research attitude is holistic and inspired by issues in climate change and natural disasters, and their impact on different economic sectors such as public health, tourism, environmental, energy, and urban economics, which makes it especially suitable for sustainability analysis. Since 2011, she has been collaborating in several research projects exceeding $1million in value.
Affiliations and expertise
College of Business, Law and Governance, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia

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