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Improving the methodology for assessing natural hazard impacts

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Title Improving the methodology for assessing natural hazard impacts
 
Creator PATWARDHAN, A
SHARMA, U
 
Subject impact assessment
natural hazards
vulnerability
tropical cyclones
 
Description The impacts of natural hazards such as cyclones have been conventionally measured through changes in human, social and economic capital, typically represented by stock variables such as population, built property and public infrastructure, livestock, agricultural land, etc. This paper develops an alternative approach that seeks to detect and quantify impacts as changes in flow variables. In particular, we explore whether changes in annual agricultural output, when measured at an appropriate spatial level, could be used to measure impacts associated with tropical cyclones in coastal regions of India. We believe that such an approach may have a number of benefits from a policy perspective, particularly with regard to the debate between relief versus recovery as disaster management strategies. A focus on flow variables is also likely to be more relevant and useful in developing countries; the maintenance of economic activity directly affects livelihood and is perhaps of greater importance than loss of built property or other physical capital. (c) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
 
Publisher ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
 
Date 2011-10-22T08:47:38Z
2011-12-15T09:10:50Z
2011-10-22T08:47:38Z
2011-12-15T09:10:50Z
2005
 
Type Article; Proceedings Paper
 
Identifier GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE,47,253-265
0921-8181
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2004.10.015
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10054/14858
http://hdl.handle.net/100/1690
 
Source International Young Scientists Global Change Conference 2003,Trieste, ITALY,NOV 16-19, 2003
 
Language English