Impact of Economic Development Levels and Disaster Types on the Short-Term Macroeconomic Consequences of Natural Hazard-Induced Disasters in China

Rumei Tang; Jidong Wu; Mengqi Ye; Wenhui Liu

doi:10.1007/s13753-019-00234-0

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Rumei Tang, Jidong Wu, Mengqi Ye, Wenhui Liu. Impact of Economic Development Levels and Disaster Types on the Short-Term Macroeconomic Consequences of Natural Hazard-Induced Disasters in China[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2019, 10(3): 371-385. doi: 10.1007/s13753-019-00234-0

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Rumei Tang, Jidong Wu, Mengqi Ye, Wenhui Liu. Impact of Economic Development Levels and Disaster Types on the Short-Term Macroeconomic Consequences of Natural Hazard-Induced Disasters in China[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2019, 10(3): 371-385. doi: 10.1007/s13753-019-00234-0

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Rumei Tang, Jidong Wu, Mengqi Ye, Wenhui Liu. Impact of Economic Development Levels and Disaster Types on the Short-Term Macroeconomic Consequences of Natural Hazard-Induced Disasters in China[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2019, 10(3): 371-385. doi: 10.1007/s13753-019-00234-0

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Impact of Economic Development Levels and Disaster Types on the Short-Term Macroeconomic Consequences of Natural Hazard-Induced Disasters in China

doi: 10.1007/s13753-019-00234-0

Rumei Tang^1,2,
Jidong Wu^{1,2
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Mengqi Ye^1,2,
Wenhui Liu^1,2

1 Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster, Ministry of Emergency Management and Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;
2 State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program-Global Change and Mitigation Project:Global change risk of population and economic system:mechanism and assessment (2016YFA0602403), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41571492).

Available Online: 2021-04-26

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Abstract

The relationship between natural hazard-induced disasters and macroeconomic growth has been examined widely on global and national scales, but little research has been focused on the subnational level, especially in China. We examined the impacts of natural hazard-induced disasters on the regional growth in China based on subnational panel data for the period from 1990 to 2016. First, we used the number of people affected and the direct economic losses as the measures of the scale of disasters. Then, we used the direct damages of meteorological disasters and earthquakes as disaster measures separately to examine the impacts of different disaster types. Finally, we performed intraregional effects regressions to observe the spatial heterogeneity within the regions. The results show that the adverse short-term effects of disasters is most pronounced in the central region, while the direct damage of disasters is a positive stimulus of growth in the whole of China. However, this stimulus is observed in a lagged way and is reflected differently-meteorological disasters in central and eastern China and earthquakes in western China are related to regional growth. The results demonstrate that the short-term macroeconomic impacts of these disasters in the three geographical regions of China largely depend on regional economic development levels and the disaster types.
- China,
- Disaster types,
- Macroeconomic growth,
- Regional development

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