Moral hazard is the most underrated driver of natural disasters. We know that it exists almost in every policy instrument or private strategy for managing the risk of natural disasters. For more than three decades, the literature has acknowledged and discussed extensively about the different types of moral hazard like the politician and the Samaritan dilemmas, and [...]
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The Moral Side of Disasters
Posted in Natural Disasters, tagged disaster risk management, moral hazard, Natural Disasters on 10/04/2011 | Leave a Comment »
Administración de desastres naturales en México (o: cómo estar aquí y allá al mismo tiempo)
Posted in Natural Disasters, tagged administración de desastres en México, derivados climáticos, seguros paramétricos on 06/05/2010 | Leave a Comment »
La evaluación experimental del impacto de desastres naturales en el desarrollo económico de una región o país es un proyecto en construcción, sin embargo, uno no puede pasar por alto dicho impacto en la planificación del desarrollo de un país altamente expuesto a estos fenómenos. Tal es el caso de México, uno de los 10 [...]
Influenza+sismo= potencial hiper-catástrofe
Posted in Natural Disasters, Public Administration and Policy, tagged influenza y sismo, riesgo catastrófico, sismo en la Ciudad de México abril 2009, swine flu on 27/04/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nada podía ser más efectivo para motivar a miles de personas a salir a las desoladas calles de la Ciudad de México que la posibilidad de un desastre por un evento natural. Y hoy ocurrió uno poco antes del mediodía en la forma de un sismo de 5.7 grados (Richter). De relativa poca magnitud para [...]
Dams and accountability… and how much a natural disaster is prompted by human activity?
Posted in Infrastructure, Natural Disasters, tagged Dams and earthquakes, Sinchuan earthquake, Zipingpu Dam on 08/02/2009 | Leave a Comment »
I firmly believe that catastrophes generated by natural hazards, such as earthquakes and hurricanes, are a product of the interaction between people decisions and the ecosystem. Thus, understanding a natural catastrophe implies analyzing historic processes of human settlements’ evolution and environmental modification. For example, the construction and sprawl of Mexico City over a drained lakebed [...]
Who’s getting the worst of natural disasters?
Posted in Economic Development, Natural Disasters, tagged disasters in poor countries, India, Mexico, Natural Disasters, natural disasters and economic development, United States, victims of natural disasters on 04/10/2008 | Leave a Comment »
Have you ever thought why catastrophes caused by natural events are more destructive in developing countries? An example? See the table below that compares the human impact (i.e., people killed or requiring immediate assistance during a period of emergency, that is requiring basic survival needs such as food, water, shelter, sanitation and immediate medical assistance) [...]
Are natural disasters increasing?
Posted in Natural Disasters, tagged developing countries, Natural Disasters, natural disasters and economic development on 11/09/2008 | Leave a Comment »
According to the International Emergency Disasters Database and the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction , the frequency, duration and magnitude of natural hazards have increased over the last 40 years. For example, the UNDP (2004) reports that annual economic losses associated with natural disasters averaged 75.5 USD billion in the 1960s, 138.4 USD billion in [...]
What determines a disaster?
Posted in Natural Disasters, tagged hazards, Natural Disasters, risk, vulnerability on 11/09/2008 | 1 Comment »
Whether a hazard becomes a disaster or not depends ultimately on people’s vulnerability (Cutter 2006), that is, their ability to prevent, mitigate, cope with, and recover from the impact of a disruptive event. The determinants of vulnerability include people’s demographic, social and economic characteristics, and their relationship with the natural and manmade environment. Risk is [...]
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