Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Overview of Risk
By Céline Charvériat. 2000
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This paper integrates information from both economics and the physical sciences to survey the effects of natural disasters in the region. A first section surveys the human and economic impact of natural disasters in the region at both the household and aggregate levels, noting both the geographical distribution of disaster risk and its long-term implications for development. A second section reviews types of disasters prevalent in the region, and future disaster risks, as well as the socio-economic sources of vulnerability to disasters resulting from development and migration patterns. A third section discusses risk management strategies at the household and community level, with public policy options and proposals for emergency response and finding an appropriate mix of local, national and market-based solutions.
Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science
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- Macroeconomic Implications of Natural Disasters in the Caribbean (2004, unknown): “…(2003a) considers 16 natural disasters and finds that 1 percent of GDP in direct damage reduced same-year GDP growth by 0.5 percentage point; Charvériat (2000) analyzes 35 events with a median damage of 3 percent of GDP and finds that same-year GDP growth fell in 28 cases, with an overall…”
- Assessing the Macroeconomic Impacts of Natural Disasters: Are There Any? (2009, methodology): “…Benson, 1997a,b,c; Benson, 1998; Benson and Clay, 1998, 2000, 2001; ECLAC 1982, 1985, 1988, 1999, 2002; Murlidharan and Shah, 2001; Crowards, 2000; Charveriat, 2000; Mechler, 2004; Hochrainer, 2006; Noy, 2009) and considers natural disasters a barrier for development in disaster-vulnerable…”
- The macro-economic impact of disasters (2002, background): “The insurance industry in particular has been identified as a mechanism for channelling finance to countries recovering from disaster in a climate of diminishing aid payments (Charvériat, 2000).”
- Informing Climate Adaptation: A Review of the Economic Costs of Natural Disasters, Their Determinants, and Risk Reduction Options (2012, unknown): “…damages to account for inflation, population growth, and GDP growth, Pielke et al. (2003) find no increase in direct hurricane damages in Cuba between 1903 and 1998, and Charvériat (2000) finds no clear trend of increasing disaster damages in the Caribbean between 1970 and 1999 using the CRED data.”
- Natural Disaster Risk Management and Financing Disaster Losses in Developing Countries (2003, background): “15 This study could not be obtained and the discussion had to rely on Charveriat (2000) as a secondary source.”