Socioeconomic development and the impact of natural disasters: some empirical evidences from China

Natural Hazards

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 541-554

  Zhou, Yang ^a,b   Li, Ning ^a   Wu, Wenxiang ^b   Liu, Haolong ^b   Wang, Li ^c   Liu, Guangxu ^d   Wu, Jidong ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d GANNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Natural disaster impacts; Ordinary least squares (OLS); Socioeconomic development

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC GROWTH; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NATURAL DISASTER; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

CHINA;

EID: 84919880465     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1198-0     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Barredo JI (2009) Normalised flood losses in Europe: 1976–2006. Nat Hazards Earth Syst 9:97–104
2. Bouwer LM, Crompton RP, Faust E, Höppe P, Pielke RA (2007) Confronting disaster losses. Science 318:753
3. Cavallo E, Powell A, Becerra O (2010) Estimating the direct economic damages of the Earthquake in Haiti. Econ J 120(546):F298–F312
4. Fuchs S, Heiss K, Huebl J (2007) Towards an empirical vulnerability function for use in debris flow risk assessment. Nat Hazards Earth Syst Sci 7:495–506
5. Hallegatte S (2011) How economic growth and rational decisions can make disaster losses grow faster than wealth. Sustainable development network. The World Bank
6. Hallegatte S (2012) Economics: the rising costs of hurricanes. Nat Clim Change 2:148–149
7. Hallegatte S, Przyluski V (2010) The economics of natural disasters: concepts and methods. The World Bank, Sustainable Development Network, Washington, DC
8. Hao L, Zhang X, Liu S (2012) Risk assessment to China’s agricultural drought disaster in county unit. Nat Hazards 61(2):785–801
9. He L, Duchin F (2009) Regional development in China: interregional transportation infrastructure and regional comparative advantage. Econ Syst Res 21(1):3–22
10. He B, Wu J, Lv A, Cui X, Zhou L, Liu M, Zhao L (2013) Quantitative assessment and spatial characteristic analysis of agricultural drought risk in China. Nat Hazards 66:155–166
11. International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) (2009) Global assessment report on disaster risk reduction: risk and poverty in a changing climate. United Nations, Geneva
12. Kahn ME (2005) The death toll from natural disasters: the role of income, geography and institutions. Rev Econ Stat 87:271–284
13. Kellenberg D, Mobarak A (2008) Does rising income increase or decrease damage risk from natural disasters? J Urban Econ 63:788–802
14. Li H (2010) On socioeconomic factors of natural disasters. China Popul Resour Environ 20(11):142–146
15. Li K, Wu S, Dai E, Xu Z (2012) Flood loss analysis and quantitative risk assessment in China. Nat Hazards 63(2):737–760
16. Liu Y, Yu Y, Li L (2012) Major natural disasters and their spatio-temporal variation in the history of China. J Geogr Sci 22(6):963–976
17. Ministry of Civil Affairs of China (MCA) (2011) China civil affairs’ statistical yearbook. China Statistics Press, Beijing
18. Neumayer E, Barthel F (2011) Normalizing economic loss from natural disasters: a global analysis. Global Environ Chang 21(1):13–24
19. Nie C, Li H, Yang L, Wu S, Liu Y, Liao Y (2012) Spatial and temporal changes in flooding and the affecting factors in China. Nat Hazards 61(2):425–439
20. Noy I (2009) The macroeconomic consequences of disasters. J Dev Econ 8(2):221–231
21. Padli J (2009) Natural disaster death and socioeconomic factors in selected Asian countries: a panel analysis. Asian Social Sci 5(4):65–71
22. Parry ML, Canziani OF, Palutikof JP, van der Linden PJ, Hanson CE (2007) Climate Change 2007: impacts, adoption and vulnerability. Contribution of working group II to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC). Cambridge University Press, New York
23. Raschky PA (2008) Institutions and the losses from natural disasters. Nat Hazards Earth Syst Sci 8:627–634
24. Schumacher I, Strobl E (2011) Economic development and losses due to natural disasters: the role of hazard exposure. Ecol Econ 72:97–105
25. Shao M, Gong Z, Xu X (2013) Risk assessment of rainstorm and flood disasters in China between 2004 and 2009 based on gray fixed weight cluster analysis. Nat Hazards. doi:10.1007/s11069-013-0664-4
26. Shi P (2011) Atlas of natural disaster risks of China. Science Press, Beijing
27. Skidmore M, Toya H (2002) Do natural disasters promote long-run growth? Econ Inq 40:664–687
28. Strobl E (2012) The economic growth impact of natural disasters in developing countries: evidence from hurricane strikes in the central American and Caribbean regions. J Dev Econ 97:130–141
29. Tang X, Xu L, Zhang Z, Lv X (2013) Effects of glacier melting on socioeconomic development in the Manas River basin, China. Nat Hazards 66(2):533–544
30. Tavares J (2004) The open society assesses its enemies: shocks, disasters and terrorist attacks. J Monet Econ 51:1039–1070
31. Toya H, Skidmore M (2007) Economic development and the impacts of natural disasters. Econ Lett 94:20–25
32. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (2004) Reducing disaster risk: a challenge for development. http://www.undp.org/bcpr
33. Vu TB, Noy I (2013) Regional effects of natural disasters in China. SEF Working paper: 03/2013
34. Xiao Y (2011) Local economic impacts of natural disasters. J Reg Sci 51(4):804–820
35. Zhang Q, Wu L, Liu Q (2009) Tropical cyclone damages in China 1983–2006. Bull Am Meteorol Soc 90(4):489–495
36. Zhang Q, Xiao M, Singh VP, Chen X (2013a) Copula-based risk evaluation of hydrological droughts in the East River basin, China. Stoch Environ Res Risk Assess 27(6):1397–1406
37. Zhang Q, Xiao M, Singh VP, Chen X (2013b) Copula-based risk evaluation of droughts across the Pearl River basin, China. Theor Appl Climatol 111(1–2):119–131
38. Zhou Y, Li N, Wu W, Wu J, Gu X, Ji Z (2013) Exploring the characteristics of major natural disasters in China and their impacts during the past decades. Nat Hazards 69(1):829–843