Exposure to natural hazard events unassociated with policy change for improved disaster risk reduction

Whether disasters spur policy change remains contested. Here, the authors utilize a dataset of 10,976 natural hazard events and multiple disaster risk reduction (DRR) policy indicators across 85 countries over eight years to show that frequency and severity factors are unassociated with improved DRR...

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Main Authors: Daniel Nohrstedt, Maurizio Mazzoleni, Charles F. Parker, Giuliano Di Baldassarre
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/772d81fda8c44153bacdf458f0d44e20
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Summary:Whether disasters spur policy change remains contested. Here, the authors utilize a dataset of 10,976 natural hazard events and multiple disaster risk reduction (DRR) policy indicators across 85 countries over eight years to show that frequency and severity factors are unassociated with improved DRR policy.