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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.03.011
	The political economy of natural disaster damage
	Neumayer E.; Plümper T.; Barthel F.
发表日期	2014
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	24 期号:1
英文摘要	Economic damage from natural hazards can sometimes be prevented and always mitigated. However, private individuals tend to underinvest in such measures due to problems of collective action, information asymmetry and myopic behavior. Governments, which can in principle correct these market failures, themselves face incentives to underinvest in costly disaster prevention policies and damage mitigation regulations. Yet, disaster damage varies greatly across countries. We argue that rational actors will invest more in trying to prevent and mitigate damage the larger a country's propensity to experience frequent and strong natural hazards. Accordingly, economic loss from an actually occurring disaster will be smaller the larger a country's disaster propensity - holding everything else equal, such as hazard magnitude, the country's total wealth and per capita income. At the same time, damage is not entirely preventable and smaller losses tend to be random. Disaster propensity will therefore have a larger marginal effect on larger predicted damages than on smaller ones. We employ quantile regression analysis in a global sample to test these predictions, focusing on the three disaster types causing the vast majority of damage worldwide: earthquakes, floods and tropical cyclones. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Economic damage; Hazard; Natural disaster; Political economy
语种	英语
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117824
作者单位	London School of Economics, Department of Geography and Environment, United Kingdom; Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, United Kingdom; University of Essex, Department of Government, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Neumayer E.,Plümper T.,Barthel F.. The political economy of natural disaster damage[J],2014,24(1).
APA	Neumayer E.,Plümper T.,&Barthel F..(2014).The political economy of natural disaster damage.Global Environmental Change,24(1).
MLA	Neumayer E.,et al."The political economy of natural disaster damage".Global Environmental Change 24.1(2014).