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An Analysis Of Exposure Risk To Extreme Events In Nature

In: Economics of Natural Disasters

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  • Lopamudra Banerjee

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This chapter studies the common factors that determine people’s susceptibility to extreme natural events, and explores how geographic hazards and social conditions determine the chance of disaster exposure. On analyzing datasets from Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Tanzania, the chapter finds that, while a household’s chance of experiencing exposure depend on the type of hazard (viz., flood, drought, volcano and tsunami) and its level (viz., low to high), certain common social factors that determine the household’s everyday living conditions (viz., occupational mode, household size, and regional poverty), also, determine its susceptibility in exceptional times of disasters.

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  • Lopamudra Banerjee, 2018. "An Analysis Of Exposure Risk To Extreme Events In Nature," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Suman Kumari Sharma & Euston Quah (ed.), Economics of Natural Disasters, chapter 4, pages 85-118, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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    Keywords

    Environmental Economics; Damages; Evaluation; Country Studies; Eartquakes; Tsunamis; Cost Benefit Analysis; Resilience; Sustainablitiy; Landslides; Floods; Volcanic Eruptions; Monsoons; Catastrophic Risk Management;
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    • Q50 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - General

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