IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/plo/pone00/0244409.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Impact of natural disasters on consumer behavior: Case of the 2017 El Niño phenomenon in Peru

Author

Listed:
  • Hugo Alatrista-Salas
  • Vincent Gauthier
  • Miguel Nunez-del-Prado
  • Monique Becker

Abstract

El Niño is an extreme weather event featuring unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. This phenomenon is characterized by heavy rains and floods that negatively affect the economic activities of the impacted areas. Understanding how this phenomenon influences consumption behavior at different granularity levels is essential for recommending strategies to normalize the situation. With this aim, we performed a multi-scale analysis of data associated with bank transactions involving credit and debit cards. Our findings can be summarized into two main results: Coarse-grained analysis reveals the presence of the El Niño phenomenon and the recovery time in a given territory, while fine-grained analysis demonstrates a change in individuals’ purchasing patterns and in merchant relevance as a consequence of the climatic event. The results also indicate that society successfully withstood the natural disaster owing to the economic structure built over time. In this study, we present a new method that may be useful for better characterizing future extreme events.

Suggested Citation

  • Hugo Alatrista-Salas & Vincent Gauthier & Miguel Nunez-del-Prado & Monique Becker, 2021. "Impact of natural disasters on consumer behavior: Case of the 2017 El Niño phenomenon in Peru," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 16(1), pages 1-23, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0244409
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244409
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0244409
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0244409&type=printable
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1371/journal.pone.0244409?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Qi Wang & John E Taylor, 2014. "Quantifying Human Mobility Perturbation and Resilience in Hurricane Sandy," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(11), pages 1-5, November.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Ningchuan Xiao & Shanshan Cai & Mark Moritz & Rebecca Garabed & Laura W Pomeroy, 2015. "Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Pastoral Mobility in the Far North Region, Cameroon: Data Analysis and Modeling," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(7), pages 1-30, July.
    2. Clodomir Santana & Federico Botta & Hugo Barbosa & Filippo Privitera & Ronaldo Menezes & Riccardo Di Clemente, 2023. "COVID-19 is linked to changes in the time–space dimension of human mobility," Nature Human Behaviour, Nature, vol. 7(10), pages 1729-1739, October.
    3. Seungil Yum, 2021. "The effects of Hurricane Dorian on spatial reactions and mobility," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 105(3), pages 2481-2497, February.
    4. Natalie Coleman & Chenyue Liu & Yiqing Zhao & Ali Mostafavi, 2023. "Lifestyle pattern analysis unveils recovery trajectories of communities impacted by disasters," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(1), pages 1-13, December.
    5. Yan Wang & John E. Taylor, 2018. "Coupling sentiment and human mobility in natural disasters: a Twitter-based study of the 2014 South Napa Earthquake," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 92(2), pages 907-925, June.
    6. Christoph Trattner & Alexander Oberegger & Leandro Marinho & Denis Parra, 2018. "Investigating the utility of the weather context for point of interest recommendations," Information Technology & Tourism, Springer, vol. 19(1), pages 117-150, June.
    7. Masahiko Haraguchi & Akihiko Nishino & Akira Kodaka & Maura Allaire & Upmanu Lall & Liao Kuei-Hsien & Kaya Onda & Kota Tsubouchi & Naohiko Kohtake, 2022. "Human mobility data and analysis for urban resilience: A systematic review," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 49(5), pages 1507-1535, June.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0244409. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: plosone (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.