Can natural disasters have positive consequences? Investigating the role of embodied technical change

By Stéphane Hallegatte, Patrice Dumas. 2009

338 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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In Sociology and Political Science

1. V. Przyluski
2. Stéphane Hallegatte
3. Ilan Noy
4. A. Nualsri
5. Xue-qin Liu
6. Peijun Shi
7. Aijun Hu
8. Ning Li

In Soil Science

1. V. Przyluski
2. Ilan Noy
3. Stéphane Hallegatte
4. A. Nualsri
5. Jessica L. Matthews
6. L. Bouwer
7. Adam B. Smith
8. E. Papyrakis

Citations in the corpus

• Naturally Negative: The Growth Effects of Natural Disasters (2014, neutral): “(4)See Hallegatte and Przyluski (2010) for illustrations of the disaster effect over time.”
• Review article: assessing the costs of natural hazards - state of the art and knowledge gaps (2013, background): “, 2006) or else apply idealized models (Hallegatte and Dumas, 2008; Hallegatte and Ghil, 2008).”
• Storms and Jobs: The Effect of Hurricanes on Individuals’ Employment and Earnings over the Long Term (2020, background): “If only the most-efficient businesses remain in operation after the storm and businesses that rebuild replace old technology with modern labor-saving technology, the marginal productivity of workers would rise (Basker and Miranda, 2016; Hallegatte and Dumas, 2008; Okuyama, 2003).”
• Quantifying uncertainty and variable sensitivity within the US billion-dollar weather and climate disaster cost estimates (2015, background): “2013), examining how developing countries and smaller economies often suffer more greatly due to natural disaster impacts (World Bank 2005; Hallegatte and Dumas 2009; IPCC 2014), and exploring how developed countries have more capacity to rebound from natural disasters impacts due to their wealth an”
• Regional indirect economic impact evaluation of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake (2011, background): “However, because of the well-designed reconstruction, local economy may benefit from the economic structural change and productivity gains several years after the quake (Hallegatte and Dumas 2008).”
• Disasters and Development: Natural Disasters, Credit Constraints and Economic Growth (2014, neutral): “However, the possibility of such a positive productivity effect resulting from an natural disaster occurrence has been disputed by Hallegatte and Dumas (2009), while Crespo Cuaresma et al. (2008) suggest that only developed countries are likely to benefit from any such mechanism.”
• What do exogenous shocks tell us about growth theories (2007, background): “…based on Schumpeter’s creative destruction 5 Solow (1956) and Swan (1956) 6 Ramsey (1928), Cass (1965), and Koopman (1965) process7 may also ascribe higher growth as a result of negative shocks (Hallegatte, 2006), as these shocks can be catalysts for re-investment and upgrading of capital goods.”
• Economic resilience: definition and measurement (2014, methodology): “A modeling exercise with an endogenous growth model (Hallegatte and Dumas, 2009) suggests that introducing even an optimistic version of this effect would not change results dramatically.”