The Impact of Natural Disaster on Urban Economic Structure

The natural environment is one of the most critical factors that profoundly influences human races. Natural disasters may have enormous effects on individual psychological characteristics. Using China’s long-term historical natural disaster dataset from 1470 to 2000 and data from a household survey in 2012, we explore whether long-term natural disasters affect social trust. We find that there is a statistically significant positive relationship between long-term natural disaster frequency and social trust. We further examine the impact of long-term natural disaster frequency on social trust in specific groups of people. Social trust in neighbors and doctors is stronger where long-term natural disasters are more frequent. Our results are robust after we considering the geographical difference. The effect of long-term natural disasters remains positively significant after we divide the samples based on geographical location. Interestingly, the impact of long-term flood frequency is only significant in the South and the impact of long-term drought frequency is only significant in the North.

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The Innovation-Driven Impact on Economic Structure Transition. The Case of China

International Journal of Management and Economics ◽

10.1515/ijme-2017-0023 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 53 (4) ◽

pp. 9-26

Author(s):

Hailun Zhang ◽

Sheng Xu

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Driving Force ◽

Economic Structure ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Structure Transition ◽

Tertiary Industry ◽

Industrial Sectors ◽

Belt And Road ◽

The Impact ◽

Plsr Model

AbstractThe research measures the driving force of innovation in economic structure transition. In order to change the pattern of economic development, China is implementing a strategy of innovation-driven development. China’s capacity of innovation has been increasing, especially since 2012, and China’s innovations have taken a leap-forward development. Nowadays, innovation has become a main driving force in China’s economic development and hi-tech industries particularly make a great contribution. Although China’s tertiary industry has been dominant and its share in three industrial sectors has been exceeding 50% since 2015, a problem still exists in China’s economy that the proportions of primary and secondary industries are relatively higher compared with developed countries. In this paper we use PLSR model to measure the impact of innovation on China’s economic structure transition. It is found that innovation can expand the tertiary industry through shrinking the proportions of primary and secondary industries, transforming China’s economic structure into a more advanced pattern. Additionally, China is also devoting itself to the “Belt and Road Initiative”, which should be combined with China’s domestic innovation-driven development and realize sustainable development of economy worldwide.

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The impact of a large-scale natural disaster on patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: The aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

Respiratory Investigation ◽

10.1016/j.resinv.2012.10.004 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 51 (1) ◽

pp. 17-23 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Seiichi Kobayashi ◽

Masakazu Hanagama ◽

Shinsuke Yamanda ◽

Hikari Satoh ◽

Shinsaku Tokuda ◽

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Keyword(s):

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ◽

Pulmonary Disease ◽

Natural Disaster ◽

Large Scale ◽

Great East Japan Earthquake ◽

Chronic Obstructive ◽

Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ◽

The Impact

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Permanent Plan of the Safeguards Sectors in Algeria (PPMVSS): The Case of Algiers Old Urban Nucleus

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.133-134.1165 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 133-134 ◽

pp. 1165-1169

Author(s):

Amina Abdessemed-Foufa ◽

Abdelwahab Zekagh ◽

Houria Merouani

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Natural Disaster ◽

World Heritage ◽

Urban Research ◽

In Situ Investigation ◽

World Cultural Heritage ◽

The Law ◽

The Impact ◽

Emergency Measures

In Algeria, several old urban nuclei are decayed or severely damaged. Numerous are the factors related to these damages: the age of constructions (many centuries), the bad or absence of maintenance, the natural disaster (earthquake, landslide, and floods) and sometimes the abandonment. Since 2003, the law 98-03 related to the preservation of cultural heritage and its application decree was implemented. In fact the first safeguard sector plan in Algeria was applied to the Casbah of Algiers which is classified as a World Heritage. This old urban nucleus presents an important decay. The different problems related to its aspect are principally the age of constructions; some of them date from the 10th century and the majority of the 16th; the absence of maintenance and recently in 2003 the impact of the earthquake. The project is still under investigation and is established by the CNERU Group (National Center in Urban Research and Studies). Furthermore the work on these areas was done under constraints. The Casbah of Algiers is a World Cultural Heritage, what induced us the installation of emergency measures (propping up), then in parallel an in situ investigation in order to determine the vulnerability of constructions was done (minor and major inheritance, houses and buildings) in order to elaborate the manual of rehabilitation and the safeguard plan and its regulation. This paper presents the adopted methodologies in this area and the different actions as the emergency measures, the constructions propping up and the manual of rehabilitation.

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Obligasi Bencana Alam Dengan Suku Bunga Stokastik Dan Pendekatan Campuran

Al-Jabar Jurnal Pendidikan Matematika ◽

10.24042/ajpm.v7i1.130 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 49-62

Author(s):

Dian Anggraini ◽

Yasir Wijaya

Keyword(s):

Interest Rates ◽

Natural Disaster ◽

Financial Risk ◽

Bond Price ◽

Federal Reserve Bank ◽

Aggregate Distribution ◽

Disaster Loss ◽

Reserve Bank ◽

Mixed Approach ◽

The Impact

This study contains the group claims model as discussed by (Lee, 2007) for the pricing of natural disaster bonds. This research was conducted with several stages. First make the formula of bond price with stochastic interest rate and disaster event following non homogeneous poisson process. It further estimates the parameters of disaster loss data from the Insurance Information Institute (III) from 1989 to 2012 and interest rates from the Federal Reserve Bank. Because the determination of aggregate distribution is difficult to be exact, numerical calculation is done by mixed approach method (Gamma and Inverse Gaussian) to determine the solution of natural disaster bond price. Finally, shows how the impact of financial risk and disaster risk on the price of natural disaster bonds.

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Fear and floods in Serbia: Citizens preparedness for responding to natural disaster

Zbornik Matice srpske za drustvene nauke ◽

10.2298/zmsdn1656303c ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 303-324 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Vladimir Cvetkovic

Keyword(s):

Natural Disaster ◽

Random Sample ◽

Quantitative Research ◽

Research Results ◽

Multi Stage ◽

The Family ◽

The Republic ◽

The Impact ◽

The City ◽

Safety Procedures

The consequences of the floods that had affected the area of Serbia in 2014 indicated a very low level of preparedness of population to respond to natural disasters. Therefore, the aim of quantitative research is to examine the impact of fear on the willingness of citizens to respond to a natural disaster caused by the flood in the Republic of Serbia. Bearing in mind all local communities in Serbia where floods occurred or there is a high risk of flooding, there was selected a random sample consisting of 19 out of 150 municipalities and 23 towns and the city of Belgrade. In the selected communities, a research was undertaken in those areas that had been most affected in relation to the amount of water or potential risk of flooding. The survey used strategy of testing in households with the use of a multi- stage random sample. The research results indicate that the citizens who have a fear of floods are familiar with safety procedures to a greater extent in relation to citizens who do not have the fear; they have taken the preventive measures; they point out that they still are not ready to respond, but plan to do so in the next 6 months; they would evacuate to the upper floor of the house; they point out that someone in the family has educated them about the flood. In contrast to that, citizens who do not have the fear are not doing anything to prepare themselves to react in such situations, they are confident in their own abilities to cope with the consequences of floods, etc. The originality of the research lies in the fact that in Serbia there has never been conducted a research to examine the state of preparedness of citizens to respond. Bearing in mind that the research is based on the territory of Serbia, conclusions can be generalized to the entire population. The research results can be used when creating a strategy for improving the level of preparedness of citizens to respond.

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