Introduction: Conceptualising the Demography of Disasters

Karácsonyi, Dávid; Taylor, Andrew

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“…Our work adds to the existing literature on the effect of disasters resulting from a natural hazard occurrence on population growth in three important ways. First, most studies that address disasters focus on the US and Japan (e.g., Ishikawa, 2019; Raker, 2020; Wang, 2019), and European countries have received little attention thus far (e.g., Forzieri et al, 2017; Karácsonyi et al, 2021), even though disasters may alter demographic dynamics substantially there too. We have added a contribution to these issues with the case study of Italy, a country that has suffered some major disasters in recent years, and which contains areas of high vulnerability from a geographical, demographic, and socio–economic point of view.…”

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The impact of the L'Aquila earthquake on demographic changes

Miccoli

Reynaud

Ambrosetti

et al. 2023

Population Space and Place

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This paper analyses the consequences on demographic changes observed in the municipalities of Abruzzo region after the earthquake of L'Aquila in 2009. Relying on Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat) data on the population in the municipalities, we aim to understand how population growth changed after the earthquake, analysing population dynamics both in the municipalities affected by the earthquake and in the other municipalities of the Abruzzo region. We apply a spatial regression model to understand the associations between population growth, the earthquake, and some demographic and economic variables, taking into account the spatial autocorrelation. Our findings confirm the importance of space and the close association of the population dynamics after the earthquake with the population age structure, both in the pre‐existing situation and in the subsequent dynamics. Population trends in the Abruzzo region were closely associated with the pre‐existing vulnerabilities. The effect of the earthquake was strong in the crater municipalities in the period immediately after the shock, while it petered out over time. A destructive earthquake implies a tremendous shock, however, in places that are already suffering from demographic, social, and economic fragility, pre‐existing factors can act equally or even more strongly on the population dynamics in the medium term. Hence, in the medium period, the characteristics of the population and socio‐economic context are stronger than in the short one, and also the effect that space and territorial contiguities have on these and other nonobservable variables is stronger than in the short period.

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The impact of the L'Aquila earthquake on demographic changes

Miccoli

Reynaud

Ambrosetti

et al. 2023

Population Space and Place

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“…Among traditionally socially vulnerable groups (elderly, children, racial minorities), often defined in a uniform context, the intersection of two or more of these groups compounds the vulnerability (Kuran et al, 2020). In this case, the compounding effects of age and race are examined to understand the potential vulnerability of the differential demographics of populations, displaying the disparities in people's coping capacity, which in turn influences the overall social system's resilience and susceptibility (Donner & Rodriguez, 2008; Karácsonyi et al, 2021). A hazardous event may not only immediately affect displacement or fatality, but also subsequently alter racial and age structure, either attenuating or accelerating pre‐existing demographic vulnerabilities through a feedback loop.…”

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The changing demography of hurricane at‐risk areas in the United States (1970–2018)

Park

Franklin

2023

Population Space and Place

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Hurricanes have proven to be one of the most deadly and costly natural hazards in the Gulf and Atlantic coast regions of the United States. Looming climate change and increasing population in coastal areas means these hazards could become even more devastating in the future. This paper first develops estimates of areas most impacted by hurricane flooding and wind damage and then assesses the generalised patterns of demographic change in those at‐risk locations, disaggregating by both race and age to account for the complex shifts in demographic composition that have occurred over the past five decades. We find evidence of racial, ethnic, and age disparities in exposure to hurricane flooding and wind impacts. Our results highlight not only the uneven burden of risk placed on those unable or unwilling to move, but also the structural privilege that enables the white population to remain in place, even in the face of increased hurricane damage risk.

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“…Outro marco nas pesquisas em desastres para as ciências sociais se deu com o estabelecimento do Centro de Pesquisa de Desastres (Disaster Research Center), na Ohio State University, no ano de 1963, que desempenhou um papel fundamental no desenvolvimento das estruturas teóricas sobre o tema, uma vez que foi o responsável pela publicação de diversos trabalhos e sínteses sobre os desastres (DONNER; DIAZ, 2018;KARÁCSONYI;TAYLOR, 2021).…”

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Desastre tecnológico: um mapeamento sistemático da literatura internacional

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Paiva

Rezende

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O campo de estudos sobre desastres tecnológicos evoluiu nos últimos anos, principalmente, devido ao aumento de ocorrência dos eventos desencadeadores desse tipo de desastre, os quais estão relacionados à ação humana e, geralmente, são decorrentes das limitações do desenvolvimento econômico, industrial, tecnológico ou do processo de urbanização. Com o intuito de contribuir com a sistematização dos estudos, este artigo procurou mapear a produção científica sobre desastre tecnológico, a partir de um levantamento de todos os artigos publicados até março do ano de 2021, em periódicos indexados nas bases de dados SciELO, Scopus e Web of Science. Para isso, foi realizado um estudo bibliométrico e uma revisão de escopo, evidenciando a produção científica por bases de dados; a evolução da produção científica e destaques em autoria, periódicos e citações; a classificação dos desastres; os estágios dos desastres e os tipos de impactos. Além disso, foram realizados agrupamentos, a partir das palavras-chave mais encontradas nos trabalhos que compõem esse levantamento bibliográfico. Com base no agrupamento das principais temáticas, foram identificados quatro clusters, que podem ser considerados como linhas de pesquisa sobre o tema: riscos de desastres; questões socioeconômicas; ciclo de gestão de desastre e tomada de decisão; dimensão humana e psicológica. O mapeamento realizado identificou alguns dos principais contornos desse campo heterogêneo de estudos. Como sugestão de trabalhos futuros têm-se a identificação das principais correntes epistêmicas utilizadas nas pesquisas e a necessidade de incorporar um olhar intersetorial e longitudinal nos estudos de avaliação dos impactos nos territórios atingidos por desastres tecnológicos.

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Introduction: Conceptualising the Demography of Disasters

Cited by 4 publications

References 49 publications

The impact of the L'Aquila earthquake on demographic changes

The impact of the L'Aquila earthquake on demographic changes

The changing demography of hurricane at‐risk areas in the United States (1970–2018)

Desastre tecnológico: um mapeamento sistemático da literatura internacional

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