Social Economic Index Analysis of Palu Disaster Recovery

Economic Analysis of Tradeoffs Between Security and Disaster Recovery

social capital in post disaster recovery

background:  some  disaster-stricken  people  in  iran  are  still  experiencing  challenges  of resuming normal life several months after the incident. however, there is not sufficient and in-depth understanding of the factors affecting the complex process of post disaster recovery in iran and rural areas in particular. this study aimed to explore the status of social capital in the process of...

Disaster risk, social vulnerability, and economic development.

This paper examines the extent to which economic development decreases a country's risk of experiencing climate-related disasters as well as the societal impacts of those events. The paper proceeds from the underlying assumption that disasters are not inherently natural, but arise from the intersection of naturally-occurring hazards within fragile environments. It uses data from the Internation...

Disaster Recovery as a Cloud Service: Economic Benefits & Deployment Challenges

Many businesses rely on Disaster Recovery (DR) services to prevent either manmade or natural disasters from causing expensive service disruptions. Unfortunately, current DR services come either at very high cost, or with only weak guarantees about the amount of data lost or time required to restart operation after a failure. In this work, we argue that cloud computing platforms are well suited ...

Modeling imbalanced economic recovery following a natural disaster using input-output analysis.

Input-output analysis is frequently used in studies of large-scale weather-related (e.g., Hurricanes and flooding) disruption of a regional economy. The economy after a sudden catastrophe shows a multitude of imbalances with respect to demand and production and may take months or years to recover. However, there is no consensus about how the economy recovers. This article presents a theoretical...