Natural Disasters in South East Asia and Bangladesh - Vulnerability Risks and Consequences (Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters - International Center for Training Exchanges in the Geosciences, 1998, 83 p.): PART I - THE CONSEQUENCES OF NATURAL DISASTERS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA AND BANGLADESH: (introduction...)

Natural Disasters in South East Asia and Bangladesh - Vulnerability Risks and Consequences (Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters - International Center for Training Exchanges in the Geosciences, 1998, 83 p.)

PART I - THE CONSEQUENCES OF NATURAL DISASTERS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA AND BANGLADESH

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		1. Overall assessment of natural disasters (events, human implications)
		2. Economic consequences

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The consequences of the natural disasters are varied. They may be considered in terms of human lives, material goods, economic activities, political impacts, social or psychological factors. They may also be direct or indirect, may have a more or less long duration, and may follow a relatively wide spatial scale. Figure 3 (¹) gives the different typologies and shows the extent of the problems caused by natural disasters which could not be avoided or whose effects it was not possible to attenuate. The countries in South East Asia and Bangladesh are regularly subject to such problems. However, the extent of these problems is not easily measurable because of insufficient data in this domain. This report does not aim at filling the gap but gives only some of the essential factors in terms of human assessment and the consequences from an economic and social development point of view.

¹In "Disaster Economics", Disaster Management Training Programme, UNDP/DHA, 1994.