By Editor|2022-06-14T17:45:50+00:00June 14th, 2022|Comments Off on A Worldwide Problem: A study published in Nature looks into whether disasters around the world are driving adaptive actions in cities

A Worldwide Problem: A study published in Nature looks into whether disasters around the world are driving adaptive actions in cities

A new study published in nature looks to examine how people learn from experience by focusing on how disaster frequency and severity shapes the actions of cities around the world with respect to adapting their actions and responses.

Using a set of 673 natural hazard events, and 549 cities, the researchers noted:

  • An increase in the financial impact of a disaster on a city resulted in an increase in effort to prepare the city for future disasters of the same type, and some effort to increase preparedness types for other disasters
  • An increase in frequency of a specific type of disaster resulted in a decrease in adaptation and preparedness for other types of disasters
  • Higher levels of wealth generally increased the amount of adaptation a city was willing to make
  • A generally weak link between human losses, and adaptive actions against future disasters

The study itself covered a wide range of disaster types, considering nine major categories (drought, earthquake, extreme temperature, flood, landslide, mass movement, storm, volcanic activity, and wildfire), with events being first recorded at the country level, and then mapped down to individual regions.

Source:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31059-z

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