Natural Disasters, Poverty and Inequality: New Metrics for Fairer Policies

doi:https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367814533

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Natural Disasters, Poverty and Inequality: New Metrics for Fairer Policies

dc.contributor.author	Walsh, Brian
dc.contributor.author	Hallegatte, Stephane
dc.date.accessioned	2021-12-06T19:58:30Z
dc.date.available	2021-12-06T19:58:30Z
dc.date.issued	2021-10-28
dc.description.abstract	Conventional risk assessments underestimate the human and macroeconomic costs of disasters, leading to inefficient risk management strategies. This happens because conventional assessments focus on asset losses, neglecting important relationships between vulnerability and development. When affected by a hazard, poor households take longer to recover from disasters and are more likely to face long-term consequences. Forced to manage trade-offs between essential consumption and reconstruction, these households are more likely to face persistent health or education costs. This chapter proposes a review of existing research into the natural disaster-poverty-inequality nexus and the various metrics that can be used to measure disaster impacts, such as recovery times, economic (income or consumption) losses, poverty incidence, inequality, and welfare or well-being losses. Each of these metrics provides a different perspective on disaster costs and suggest different spatial and sectoral priorities for action. Focusing on the concepts of well-being losses and socioeconomic resilience, this chapter shows how more comprehensive accounting of disaster impacts can better inform disaster risk management and climate change adaptation strategies and support their integration into development and poverty-reduction policies.	en
dc.identifier.citation	The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/978-0-3678-1453-3
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-3678-1453-3
dc.identifier.isbn	9780367814533
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/36656
dc.publisher	Taylor and Francis
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subject	NATURAL DISASTER
dc.subject	POVERTY
dc.subject	INEQUALITY
dc.subject	DISASTER IMPACT
dc.subject	WELL-BEING LOSS
dc.subject	WELFARE IMPACT
dc.subject	DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT
dc.subject	CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
dc.subject	POVERTY REDUCTION POLICY
dc.title	Natural Disasters, Poverty and Inequality	en
dc.title.subtitle	New Metrics for Fairer Policies	en
dc.type	Book Chapter
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okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.topic	Environment::Adaptation to Climate Change
okr.topic	Environment::Natural Disasters
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Living Standards
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Poverty Monitoring & Analysis
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Poverty Reduction Strategies
okr.unit	Climate Change Group
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