Book contents
- Fragile Futures
- Fragile Futures
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Epigraph
- Part I Uncertain Future Events and Reactions to Them
- Part II Pandemics and Other Disasters
- 5 Pandemics, Plagues, and Epidemics
- 6 Famines
- 7 Natural Disasters
- 8 Atomic Disasters
- 9 Industrial Disasters
- 10 Guiding Economic Principles for Disasters
- Part III Climate Change and Global Warming
- Part IV Back to Some Theoretical Issues
- References
- Index
7 - Natural Disasters
from Part II - Pandemics and Other Disasters
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 April 2022
- Fragile Futures
- Fragile Futures
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Epigraph
- Part I Uncertain Future Events and Reactions to Them
- Part II Pandemics and Other Disasters
- 5 Pandemics, Plagues, and Epidemics
- 6 Famines
- 7 Natural Disasters
- 8 Atomic Disasters
- 9 Industrial Disasters
- 10 Guiding Economic Principles for Disasters
- Part III Climate Change and Global Warming
- Part IV Back to Some Theoretical Issues
- References
- Index
Summary
Description: Beside pandemics and famines, humans have also suffered from the impact of other kinds of disasters, which at times were very destructive of lives and property. Among these natural disasters there were earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, major floods, hurricanes and tornadoes, and tsunamis. While some of these were clearly Acts of God, increasingly some had some human contribution, because of the growing impact that humans had started to have on nature. This human impact was growing with the passing of time. The increase in the standard of living of humans was increasingly coming at a high natural cost. The chapter provides information on some of the major disasters.
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- Fragile FuturesThe Uncertain Economics of Disasters, Pandemics, and Climate Change, pp. 77 - 89Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022