Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2015 Special issue on Demographic differential vulnerability to climate-related disasters
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Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2015 Special issue on Demographic differential vulnerability to climate-related disasters
ISSN 1728-4414
Print Edition ISSN 1728-5305 Online Edition ISBN 978-3-7001-8007-4 Print Edition ISBN 978-3-7001-8041-8 Online Edition
doi:10.1553/populationyearbook2015
Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2015 2016, 300 Seiten, 24x17cm, broschiert € 60,–
Emilio Zagheni,
Raya Muttarak,
Erich Striessnig
S. 47 - 70 doi:10.1553/populationyearbook2015s47 Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften doi:10.1553/populationyearbook2015s47
Abstract: This paper evaluates the heterogeneous impact of hydro-meteorological disasters on populations along the dimensions of age, sex, and human development. The analysis is based on previously untapped cause-of-death data over the period 1995– 2011 that were obtained from the WHO mortality database, and were based on the civil registration records of 63 countries/territories. Using these data, we evaluate patterns of mortality related to meteorological disasters in the spirit of model life tables.We observe that mortality rates from hydro-meteorological disasters for men are consistently higher than for women across all age groups, and that the differential by sex is larger for adults than for young children or the elderly. Furthermore, the sex differential in mortality becomes smaller with improvements in human development. Comparing our disaster fatalities with those recorded in the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT), we find that the number of deaths from hydro-meteorological disasters was underestimated in the WHO database, especially in the case of highimpact events. In the paper we discuss issues of data quality and data harmonisation for the study of the differential demographic impact of natural disasters. One of our main goals is to stimulate an interdisciplinary debate in this area. Published Online: 2016/09/20 19:16:22 Object Identifier: 0xc1aa5576 0x00344f49 Rights: .
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