Demographic effects of natural disasters: a case study of hurricane andrew

Smith, Stanley K.; McCarty, Christopher

doi:10.2307/2061876

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“…The effect of disasters on changes in demographic trends or structures has been examined (Smith and McCarty, 1996;Neumayer and Plümper, 2006). A number of studies have looked at the determinants of mortality rates from disasters (Anbarci, Escaleras and Register, 2005;Kahn, 2005).…”

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The Impact of Disasters on International Trade

2006

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractIn this paper we examine the impact of major disasters on international trade flows using a gravity model. Our panel data consists of more than 170 countries for the years 1962-2004 yielding approximately 300,000 observations. We find that the driving forces determining the impact of such events are the democracy level and, to a lesser extent, the area of the affected country. The less democratic and the smaller a country the more are its trade flows reduced in case it is struck by a disaster. We are also able to distinguish between the effect of a disaster on an importing and an exporting country.

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confidence: 99%

The Impact of Disasters on International Trade

2006

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“…Economically, survivors face many challenges due to discontinued employment (e.g., Rasco and North 2010), diminished value of assets (e.g., Committee on Assessing the Costs of Natural Disasters 1999), and business interruptions in community (e.g., Rose et al 2011). Demographic environments also change drastically as a large portion of community members evacuate from their homes (e.g., Smith and McCarty 1996). The post-disaster political climate tends to be characterized by frustration against at perceived government's inability and social activism seeking new leadership (e.g., Tierney et al 2001).…”

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confidence: 99%

Constraining, Negotiating, and Facilitating Leisure after Disaster: a Case of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

Kono

2018

Int J Sociol Leis

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Disasters influence human lives on a large scale. In 2017 only, 441 disasters killed 13,310 people and directly affected approximately 93 million individuals around the world (Centre for Research on the Epistemology of Disasters n.d.). Nonetheless, it remains understudied how these tragedies impact survivors' leisure lives. Survivors may suffer increased constraints to leisure in their post-disaster lives (Crawford et al., Leisure Sciences, 13, 309-320 1991), while being able to negotiate such constraints so that they can maintain leisure participation (Jackson et al., Leisure Sciences, 15, 1-11 1993). Also relevant may be leisure facilitators (Raymore, Journal of Leisure Research, 34(1), 37-51 2002) that enable survivors to enjoy leisure pursuits. This study examines effects of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami on survivors' leisure lives through the theoretical lenses of leisure constraints, constraint negotiation, and leisure facilitators. One-month field work in the disaster-stricken area was conducted, from which 16 survivors and five disaster volunteers were recruited to subsequent semistructured interviews between June and July, 2012. An analysis of interview data, guided by grounded theory, suggested that disaster-related life events (e.g., bereavement, destruction of home, and displacement) created situations where survivors struggled with finding meaningfulness of leisure activities and dissociated declining resources from the use for leisure purposes. The analysis also indicated that survivors negotiated these constraints by resisting confining norms and reattaching positive meanings to leisure. Furthermore, survivors encountered two major leisure facilitators: causes for leisure participation and enabling others. The findings are discussed in light of leisure constraints, constraint negotiation, and facilitation as well as implications for practitioners in disaster-stricken areas.Int J Sociol Leis

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“…2 For example, to gauge the demographic impact of Hurricane Andrew, Smith and McCarty (1996) fi elded their own survey of nearly 6,000 residents in the affected communities, collecting information on how the hurricane affected them and their immediate neighbors (a type of network sampling to ensure that persons who may have left the area were captured in the survey). Schuster et al (2001) provided another example of specialized data collection, in this case in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.…”

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confidence: 99%