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Natural disasters, unnatural consequences? Characterizing the causes of natural disaster’s vulnerability in Chile

Sacks, Sofia LU (2019) EKHS22 20191
Department of Economic History
Abstract
Reducing inequality in Chile has long been a priority of policymakers because of its negative impacts over political representation, spatial segregation and distribution of opportunities. Through the framework of vulnerability, this research suggests that an unexpected impact of inequality in Chile is an increased likelihood of experiencing losses due to natural disasters. By using logistic multilevel regressions based on household survey data, this study finds that disaster-related losses are more likely among households with less economic capacity and entitlements, less mechanisms of political and social power, in more economically unequal settings. At the national and regional level, poverty, rurality and having experienced... (More)
Reducing inequality in Chile has long been a priority of policymakers because of its negative impacts over political representation, spatial segregation and distribution of opportunities. Through the framework of vulnerability, this research suggests that an unexpected impact of inequality in Chile is an increased likelihood of experiencing losses due to natural disasters. By using logistic multilevel regressions based on household survey data, this study finds that disaster-related losses are more likely among households with less economic capacity and entitlements, less mechanisms of political and social power, in more economically unequal settings. At the national and regional level, poverty, rurality and having experienced discrimination are found to be positively significantly associated with increases in likelihoods of losses due to natural disaster. In presence of all the studied factors of vulnerability, it is shown that the likelihood of experiencing losses due to natural disasters increases in 11 percentage points at the national level, and between 9 and 15 percentage points, depending on the region. (Less)
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author
Sacks, Sofia LU
supervisor
organization
course
EKHS22 20191
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
natural disasters, inequality, vulnerability, Chile, multilevel logistic regression, household data
language
English
id
8986152
date added to LUP
2019-08-22 08:35:44
date last changed
2019-08-22 08:35:44
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  abstract     = {{Reducing inequality in Chile has long been a priority of policymakers because of its negative impacts over political representation, spatial segregation and distribution of opportunities. Through the framework of vulnerability, this research suggests that an unexpected impact of inequality in Chile is an increased likelihood of experiencing losses due to natural disasters. By using logistic multilevel regressions based on household survey data, this study finds that disaster-related losses are more likely among households with less economic capacity and entitlements, less mechanisms of political and social power, in more economically unequal settings. At the national and regional level, poverty, rurality and having experienced discrimination are found to be positively significantly associated with increases in likelihoods of losses due to natural disaster. In presence of all the studied factors of vulnerability, it is shown that the likelihood of experiencing losses due to natural disasters increases in 11 percentage points at the national level, and between 9 and 15 percentage points, depending on the region.}},
  author       = {{Sacks, Sofia}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Natural disasters, unnatural consequences? Characterizing the causes of natural disaster’s vulnerability in Chile}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}