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Natural disasters as a development opportunity : a spatial economic resilience interpretation
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- Banica, A (author)
- Alexandru Ioan Cuza Univ, Iasi, Romania.;Romanian Acad, Iasi Branch, Iasi, Romania.
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- Kourtit, Karima (author)
- Uppsala universitet,KTH,Urbana och regionala studier,Centrum för framtida stadsrum,Kulturgeografiska institutionen,Alexandru Ioan Cuza Univ, Iasi, Romania.;Open Univ OU, Heerlen, Netherlands.;Polytecn Univ, Ben Guerir, Morocco.;KTH Royal Inst Technol, Ctr Future Pl CFP, Stockholm, Sweden.;Adam Mickiewicz Univ, Poznan, Poland.
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- Nijkamp, P (author)
- Alexandru Ioan Cuza Univ, Iasi, Romania.;Open Univ OU, Heerlen, Netherlands.;Polytecn Univ, Ben Guerir, Morocco.;Adam Mickiewicz Univ, Poznan, Poland.
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Alexandru Ioan Cuza Univ, Iasi, Romania;Romanian Acad, Iasi Branch, Iasi, Romania. Urbana och regionala studier (creator_code:org_t)
- 2020-08-18
- 2020
- English.
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In: Jahrbuch für Regional Wissenschaft. - : Springer. - 0173-7600 .- 1613-9836.
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- Natural disasters are usually regarded as damage factors causing high private and social costs. Notwithstanding the incontestable validity of this premise, natural disasters do not necessarily lead to a structural deprivation of the area affected. Recent studies have clearly shown that in the long run one may even observe positive socio-economic effects (‘blessings in disguise’). This paper investigates this challenging proposition by developing a risk-disaster-opportunity framework for a territorial system, and by analysing the socio-economic impacts of natural shocks from a resilience perspective. This is inter alia done by designing a typology of natural disasters, and by presenting a systematic classification of long-range impacts. An empirical test of the above proposition of positive recovery effects of natural disasters is carried out by using, in particular, long-term data from the worldwide EM-DAT database. The attention is then focussed on positive feedback loops in spatial systems that are affected by a natural perturbation. Various case studies (USA, China, Haiti, Chile, Japan) are undertaken in order to test the existence of long-term ‘blessings in disguise’ effects, using in particular the HDI-index. In various cases, such positive effects appear to exist, depending on the effectiveness of public management of natural disaster phenomena.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Other Social Sciences -- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Företagsekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Business Administration (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Blessing in disguise
- Natural disasters
- Recovery effects
- Resilience
- Risk-disaster-opportunity framework
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- art (subject category)
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