Coping strategies to natural disasters
2017
Ravago, M.L. | Sunglao, J.C. | Mapa, D.
The authors explore the local government's responses to natural disasters in the Philippines and determine the optimal policy mix of ex-ante and ex-post risk management strategies. While it is widely accepted that the impact of natural disasters is inherently local, there is too little focus on the local responses to natural disasters. Effective local response is flexible and varied, even as it exists within a national or regional framework of disaster risk management. This is especially true in the Philippines, an archipelago with 7,641 islands. Studies of disaster impact in the economic literature are often pigeonholed into either analyzing macroeconomic impacts or investigating one or two cities affected by a particular disaster. Both have their place, but each one is limited in terms of providing support for actionable policy. Macroeconomic analysis smoothens away the effects of each disaster event. This makes it difficult to formulate specific policies. On the other hand, case studies can inspire effective policies in the specific areas, but not in others. Therefore, they are often insufficient in terms of providing a more general framework. To account for this, the author use data from a novel survey on disaster risk management. Local government units were surveyed on their coping strategies to disasters, covering a sample of cities and municipalities in 37 provinces throughout the Philippines. The authors limit the study to high-frequency disasters like typhoons, floods, and tsunamis.
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