Natural Disasters and Fragile Supply Chains: The Great East Japan Earthquake and the Thai Floods in 2011

Shigeyuki Abe and Pongsak Hoontrakul

Chapter 9 in The Global Rise of Asian Transformation, 2014, pp 217-232 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Contemporaneous with rising climate change, natural disasters have become increasingly frequent in the world over the years. The highest ever was in 2007, when there were more than 1,000 disasters.1 Natural disasters can be classified into two main categories: (1) severe or extreme weather events, including meteorological events such as storms, hurricanes, and high winds, and hydrological events such as floods, drought, and bushfires; and (2) geophysical events such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. It is particularly noteworthy that weather-related disasters in particular are increasingly frequent with steeper upward trend than geophysical events.2

Keywords: Supply Chain; Natural Disaster; Hard Disk Drive; Great East Japan Earthquake; NAND Flash (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137412362_9

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