Political economy of large natural disasters with special reference to development countries/
J. M. Albala-Bertrand
- Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005.
- vi, 259 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
2 Disaster statistics and patterns 1 Data sources: institutional problems 2 Disaster assessment: the unreliability of figures 3 Global patterns and trends 4 Sectoral patterns of direct effects 5 Patterns of response sources
3 Effects of disaster situations on macroeconomic variables 1 A sample of disaster situations 2 Analysis 3 Methodology 4 Main performance aggregates 5 Investment and sectoral outputs 6 Public finance 7 Balance of payments 8 conclusions
5 Indirect disaster effects and in-built responses 1 Disarticulation of household conditions 2 Disarticulation of the states of health and nutrition 3 Disarticulation of the economic circuit 4 Disarticulation of public activities
6 Disaster response motivation 1 Individual relief motivation 2 Public motivation 3 International motivation 4 Public and international decision processes
7 Final effects on output: a simple macromodel 1 Main rules of natural disasters 2 Overall effect of capital loss on aggregate output 3 Overall effect of disaster response on aggregate output 4 Speed of recovery 5 UNDRO's 'ECLA Estimate'
8 Effects of disaster situations on economy and society 1 A record of studies and some evidence 2 General observations about effects