Disasters, Vulnerability and Resilience from a Macro- economic Perspective: Lessons from the empirical evidence (original) (raw)
2009, UNISDR Global assessment report on disaster risk reduction
This report is a continuation of earlier studies developed by the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN-ISDR) on economic vulnerability and resilience of countries, in an effort to gain a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms and the characteristics of the problem from a development perspective. In a previous work developed by Baritto (2008) under the terms of a joint project between the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and the UN-ISDR, a methodological framework to address macro-economic vulnerability and resilience issues at a country level was proposed. In the present report these preliminary ideas are revisited and further comparative analyses are introduced. The worldwide picture of disasters shows that death tolls seems to be fairly stable, although not significantly decreasing, but economic losses are rising steeply. How these unforeseen events can influence to national economies is a matter of great interest for the purpose of this report. In this way, the report is focused in a detailed review of available data on economic losses caused by disasters and tries to compare the relative magnitude of these losses at country level. [GAR 2009 Background Papers: Chapter 2 - https://www.preventionweb.net/english/hyogo/gar/2011/en/home/gar09papers.html\]
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