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Examining the Natural Environmental Hazards Over the Last Century

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  • George Halkos

    (University of Thessaly)

  • Argyro Zisiadou

    (University of Thessaly)

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The purpose of the paper is to present an extended literature review with statistical results on natural environmental hazards relying on data from the last 117 years (1900–2016). More specifically, inspired by a statement in Smith’s (1996) book “the rich lose their money but the poor lose their lives” in this study we detect the high-risk areas and correlate them with economic characteristics in an attempt to accept or reject the above statement. Particularly, we hypothesize that the most developed countries have high economic losses and that the least developed countries have great fatalities. In this way we examine if fatalities are proved to be significant in the least developed countries and the total economic damages are proved to be significant in the most developed countries. A number of graphical presentations come to strengthen the statistical results by using map visualization techniques.

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  • George Halkos & Argyro Zisiadou, 2019. "Examining the Natural Environmental Hazards Over the Last Century," Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, Springer, vol. 3(2), pages 119-150, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ediscc:v:3:y:2019:i:2:d:10.1007_s41885-018-0037-2
    DOI: 10.1007/s41885-018-0037-2
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    1. Halkos, George & Zisiadou, Argyro, 2018. "Reporting the natural environmental hazards occurrences and fatalities over the last century," MPRA Paper 87936, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Alistair Munro & Shunsuke Managi, 2017. "Going Back: Radiation and Intentions to Return amongst Households Evacuated after the Great Tohoku Earthquake," Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, Springer, vol. 1(1), pages 77-93, June.
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    Keywords

    Environmental hazards risk; Disaster; Economic impact; Damage; Fatalities;
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    JEL classification:

    • D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
    • H12 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Crisis Management
    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
    • Q50 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - General

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