Social media usage reveals recovery of small businesses after natural hazard events

Natural hazards can have huge impacts on individuals and societies, however, monitoring the economic recovery in the aftermath of extreme events remains a challenge. Here, the authors find that Facebook posting activity of small businesses can be used to monitor post-disaster economic recovery, and...

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Main Authors: Robert Eyre, Flavia De Luca, Filippo Simini
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Published: Nature Portfolio 2020
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:27c3fe9fe4284c8cbc65093c8a6b5e9c2021-12-02T17:32:11ZSocial media usage reveals recovery of small businesses after natural hazard events10.1038/s41467-020-15405-72041-1723https://doaj.org/article/27c3fe9fe4284c8cbc65093c8a6b5e9c2020-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15405-7https://doaj.org/toc/2041-1723Natural hazards can have huge impacts on individuals and societies, however, monitoring the economic recovery in the aftermath of extreme events remains a challenge. Here, the authors find that Facebook posting activity of small businesses can be used to monitor post-disaster economic recovery, and can allow local governments to better target distribution of resources.Robert EyreFlavia De LucaFilippo SiminiNature PortfolioarticleScienceQENNature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2020)
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Social media usage reveals recovery of small businesses after natural hazard events
description Natural hazards can have huge impacts on individuals and societies, however, monitoring the economic recovery in the aftermath of extreme events remains a challenge. Here, the authors find that Facebook posting activity of small businesses can be used to monitor post-disaster economic recovery, and can allow local governments to better target distribution of resources.
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