Socioeconomic effects of an earthquake: does spatial heterogeneity matter?

Pagliacci, Francesco; Russo, Margherita

doi:10.1080/00343404.2018.1462483

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“…The analysis of local exposures and vulnerabilities suggests that communities tend to be spatially linked risks ( UNDRR-United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2020 ). Socio-economic research can elaborate analytical insights into specific and geographically defined risks by using data with different spatial granularity produced by various official sources, to allow its use in combination with data on exposure and vulnerability ( Pagliacci and Russo, 2019b ).…”

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Community Readiness for Local COVID-19 Management

Pozzo

Virgili

2021

Front. Res. Metr. Anal.

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The experience of COVID-19 has highlighted the strategic role of local administrations, in all areas of service, in directing and coordinating actions to contain the pandemic. In this brief research report, we have interpreted the theme of the issue Open when, why, to whom? Changing challenges, perspectives, and practices in a new research culture by transferring it into a local context, namely in Italy’s inner areas, whose communities had already endured the 2016–2017 seismic swarm. We will look into the issue pragmatically, because we think that in front of a COVID-19 induced fast-changing institutional environment, science and technology studies researchers have some ideas to offer. These days, we are learning important lessons in citizen science. Today, local administrators must equip themselves with the management of infrastructures (unimaginable before COVID-19) for enforcing social distance and tracking positive cases. One of the tasks that we wish to take up is determining the levels of societal readiness and the levels of integration in society of new technologies, products, and services. The pandemic requires social and cultural innovation policies that make communities ready to respond to catastrophic events on their territory—our case-study is Italy’s inner areas—through access to data, communities of practice, co-creation, reflection, and inclusion. Finally, COVID-19 ought not to undermine the work done so far to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 1 (Poverty), 3 (Health), 4 (Education), 5 (Gender), 6 (Water), 8 (Work), 10 (Inequalities) and 16 (Peace). Pope Francis has made it clear: “This is the moment to see the poor.”

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Community Readiness for Local COVID-19 Management

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Virgili

2021

Front. Res. Metr. Anal.

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“…This includes tools used by agencies, such as WHO, to estimate the costs of emergencies response plans or the investments needed to improve health emergency and disaster risk management across several countries 27,28 . Economic studies also describe impacts across population groups, which can help identify inequality and hardship linked to socioeconomic and demographic characteristics such as income status, gender, and age 29 …”

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An introduction to economic studies, health emergencies, and COVID‐19

Clarke

2020

J Evidence Based Medicine

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The COVID‐19 pandemic has created widespread harm and disruption. Countries have implemented unprecedented measures to protect the lives and livelihoods of their inhabitants. The scope and composition of these responses are shaped, in part, by research and analysis about the estimated economic impacts of the COVID‐19 Pandemic and proposed responses to it. This analysis outlines basic features and principles involved in economic studies, specifically economic impact studies and economic evaluations, which have formed a significant part of the ever‐increasing evidence base about COVID‐19. This analysis introduces economic studies in this context, highlighting what they can do, their limitations, and key steps involved in conducting them. It highlights examples of economic analysis focused on COVID‐19 and on health emergencies and disasters more broadly. Knowing how economic studies are conducted, and their limitations, will help introduce how their findings can be a useful, usable, and used part of efforts to tackle this global health crisis.

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“…To this respect, two issues jointly occur: ( i ) properly defining the affected area and ( ii ) quantifying the local amount of damages. With regard to the former issue, this work focuses on the same set of municipalities that Pagliacci and Russo () acknowledge as the most damaged ones (32 municipalities, with the exclusion of any NUTS 3 level capital cities – capoluoghi di provincia ). Assessing the amount of damage at census tract level poses major problems.…”

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“…Additional considerations refer to the heterogeneity of this area (Figure ), as its westernmost portion tends to be more urbanized and industrialized than the easternmost one (Pagliacci and Russo ).…”

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Natural disasters as stress‐tests for housing systems. Vulnerability and local resistance to the 2012 earthquake in Italy

Giovannetti

Pagliacci

2017

Region Sci Policy Practice

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Earthquakes often occur in Italy: for built-up areas, they represent exogenous stress tests, acting as catalysts for long-term socio-economic processes and testing local resilience and resistance. This work considers damages to residential buildings after the 2012 earthquake in Emilia, at census tract level. First, cluster analysis points out which are the most vulnerable census tracts in the affected area, according to their socio-economic characteristics; second, quantitative data about reconstruction (released as open data) are adopted to compute a sensitivity index. It emerges that clusters with poorer socio-economic and building conditions have been damaged more than others.JEL classification: O18, Q54

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Socioeconomic effects of an earthquake: does spatial heterogeneity matter?

Cited by 11 publications

References 19 publications

Community Readiness for Local COVID-19 Management

Community Readiness for Local COVID-19 Management

An introduction to economic studies, health emergencies, and COVID‐19

Natural disasters as stress‐tests for housing systems. Vulnerability and local resistance to the 2012 earthquake in Italy

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