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Natural Disaster and International Development

In: International Development

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  • Luke Strongman

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Recovery from natural disaster has for many years been seen in objective terms as simply the time taken to replace damaged infrastructure. Increasingly, however, social scientists are describing the large part that human capital plays in the recovery from natural disaster in the form of 'resilience'. The purpose of the chapter is to delineate, from a social scientific perspective, the main factors involved in disaster rehabilitation from a necessarily superficial but nevertheless accurate and useful viewpoint. The main areas to be considered are infrastructural impacts, psychological impacts and communication factors. The chapter concludes by defining various perspectives that contribute to the quality of resilience that underscores the investment in human capital in post-disaster zones.

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  • Luke Strongman, 2017. "Natural Disaster and International Development," Chapters, in: Seth Appiah-Opoku (ed.), International Development, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:108446
    DOI: 10.5772/67063
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    Keywords

    natural disaster; infrastructure; psychology; social networks; psychological effects; communication; resilience;
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    • O40 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General

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