Global Increase in Climate - Related Disasters

Vinod Thomas () and Ramón López ()
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Abstract: Is there an ominous link between the global increase of the hydrometeorological and climatological events on the one side and anthropogenic climate change on the other? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors—rising population exposure, greater population vulnerability, and increasing climate-related hazards—behind the increased frequency of intense climate-related natural disasters. In a regression analysis within a model of disaster risk determination for 1971–2013, population exposure measured by population density and people’s vulnerability measured by socioeconomic variables are positively linked to the frequency of these intense disasters.

Keywords: climate; climate hazards; government policy; natural disasters; sustainable development; Hurricane Sandy; economic growth; natural disaster; hydrometeorological; climatological; anthropogenic; risk factors; global increase (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-12
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Working Paper: Global Increase in Climate-Related Disasters (2015)
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