A Year of Living Dangerously: A Review of Natural Disasters in 2010

In spring the ashes spewed from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland are in the north for several weeks.

Later, the increase in floods in Pakistan covered 20% of the country's area. Overall, this is

Year of catastrophic natural disaster on a global scale. But,

Most notably, more than 130 million Chinese who were affected by the worst flood in the recent history - more than five times the number of victims of the Haiti earthquake and floods in Pakistan - Is far less than anyone else. Pakistan or Haiti. An example of the flood in China shows that one of the dilemmas of natural disasters, ie disasters, and dealing with large-scale disasters is reported by quite different media. For China, more than 130 million people have been affected and about 4,000 people have died or are missing, but there are few international aid that is offered or required. For the affected people, there is no economic appeal of the whole United Nations. The widely-known portal site Reliefweb has released only 243 reports on China's floods, mainly from the China News Agency, but by comparison, the number of flood reports in Pakistan amounts to ten times the report . This year, it affected about 20 million people.

Most disasters in 2010 were "smaller" disasters, except for some large and even bigger disasters such as the Haiti earthquake and the floods in China and Pakistan. These ranges and smaller disasters from the Philippines to Guatemala and from Niger to Venezuela are also fatal, causing serious human suffering and evacuation, and in certain circumstances they have political, social and political consequences Bring.

However, academic evidence on the economic consequences of natural disasters is complicated. Noy and Vu (2010) and Loayza et al. As described by. (2012), the existing research report says natural disasters may even promote growth. Skidmore and Toya (2002) and Crespo-Cuaresma et al. (2008) reported that one of the possible mechanisms behind this positive effect is to increase the productivity of the economic sector. However, since these studies use summary data, we can not answer the reasons and methods for productivity improvement due to natural disasters. Therefore, to analyze the mechanism of natural disasters affecting the productivity of economic data, it is necessary to use micro data.

Nature is a very dangerous place. Natural disasters occur around the world and can damage property, land, wildlife, even human beings. Natural disasters are major events caused by natural processes all over the world. Natural disasters can have devastating effects on the life and geography of our planet. In particularly strong cases, they can cause incredible loss of life. Hurricanes are also called cyclones or typhoons, depending on the scale of the world. Meteorologists often call them tropical cyclones. The hurricane consists of a calmer core area called Storm Eye, surrounded by whirlwind and fast moving storms. Hurricanes can occur when a thunderstorm group drifts over a warm ocean. Hot air from the storm and air on the sea surface started to rise. When the air goes up, a low pressure is formed on the surface of the sea.