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	Socioeconomic development and the impact of natural disasters: some empirical evidences from China
	Zhou Y. ; Li N. ; Wu W. X. ; Liu H. L. ; Wang L. ; Liu G. X. ; Wu J. D.
	2014
关键词	Socioeconomic development Natural disaster impacts Ordinary least squares (OLS) China economic-development river-basin losses risk institutions damages income
英文摘要	Significant advancements have been made in examining the relationship between economic development and disaster losses at the global and national scales, but very little research has been done at the sub-national level, especially in China. Based on socioeconomic and disaster impact data from 31 provinces (municipalities, and autonomous regions) in China from 1990 to 2010, ordinary least squares regression was used to determine the relationship between socioeconomic development and effects of natural disasters. Results showed that economic development played a distinct role in mitigating disaster damages in the whole China and its eastern, central and western regions. There existed a U-shaped relationship between economic growth and disaster losses in the whole China and its eastern region, and an inverted-U nonlinearity linkage in its central and western areas. These findings further confirmed the existence of a nonlinear relationship between economic development and disaster losses. Economic growth had played a more important role in mitigating disaster losses in the central region of China than that in the western one. Further investigations demonstrated that as economic develops, there were fewer deaths caused by natural hazards in whole China and all its three regions. The combination of the lower level of education, higher unemployment rate and greater gross dependence ratio has contributed to the increase in death toll caused by natural disasters, but this trend could be partly offset by wealth growth.
出处	Natural Hazards
卷	74
期	2
页	541-554
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
ISSN号	0921-030X
内容类型	SCI/SSCI论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/29354]
专题	地理科学与资源研究所_历年回溯文献
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhou Y.,Li N.,Wu W. X.,et al. Socioeconomic development and the impact of natural disasters: some empirical evidences from China. 2014.

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