Humanitarian crises due to natural disasters and armed conflict

Humanitarian crises due to natural disasters and armed conflict.

Natural disasters, armed conflict, and public health.

Disasters and humanitarian crises: a joint future for responders?

Web publication: 27 August 2008 In the last 35 years, the disaster and humanitarian communities have evolved rapidly in two parallel cohorts. The disaster enterprise in the US and Latin America grew up in the 1970s in response to a series of major earthquakes, hurricanes, and forest fires, culminating with the nuclear disaster at Three Mile Island and the formation of the Federal Emergency Mana...

“Natural Disasters, Casualties and Power Laws: A Comparative Analysis with Armed Conflict”

Power-law relationships, relating events with magnitudes to their frequency, are common in natural disasters and violent conflict. Compared to many statistical distributions, power laws drop off more gradually, i.e. they have “fat tails”. Existing studies on natural disaster power laws are mostly confined to physical measurements, e.g., the Richter scale, and seldom cover casualty distributions...

Economic Crises and Natural Disasters: Coping Strategies and Policy Implications

— This paper reviews 12 studies presented at a conference examining two broad themes: (a) the interplay between household coping strategies and the impact of crises and natural disasters on various dimensions of well-being (e.g., consumption and child nutrition); and (b) some of the exante and ex-post strategies that public agencies can adopt so they can be more effective in protecting househol...