Disasters management
Orlando, Alberto (2018)
2018
MDP in Public Economics and Public Finance (MGE)
Johtamiskorkeakoulu - Faculty of Management
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2018-11-21
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:uta-201901031027
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:uta-201901031027
Tiivistelmä
The thesis discusses the issues and the problems that are related to the disasters, with a particular attention to the management of these events and the behavior of the people that are affected by them.
This work is made because the world has to face the changes in the environment, the pollution and in its social structure but is it ready to do it? Is there a correct level of resilience and preparedness to preserve our system? A flow in Asia had a zero effect on the economies around the globe, one hundred years ago, but now can be reason of food scarcity and drastic economic losses so the globalization changed the effects of the events: the economies are now integrated and a big catastrophe could cause a wide destabilization very easily.
However, this thesis doesn't want to give to the disasters management new solutions, model to calculate the damages or to manage the situations; it wants to define what are the particularities that interact into a disaster and what is their risk. This thesis also accomplish the role to unify various subjects of study in order to understand how the field needs various approaches to be accomplished. At least the thesis would also give some basic knowledge and an introduction to the disaster management.
The first chapter introduce the topic of the disasters, giving to the reader a landscape of the different definitions, how they are elaborated, the typologies of disasters and the perception that the people and the market have about them. This chapter is made to show the increase in the number of the events and of the side effects, such as how the cost of the disasters have reached, in the last eighteen years, around two thousand and a half billions of US dollars.
The second chapter is concentrate on the analysis of the disasters, defining the different typologies of the damages, how they influence the environment (physical and economic) and how people will be affected by the disaster in their behavior. It was done a particularly careful analysis of various study about the human behavior and the reader can understand how it will influence the management of the post-event crisis, with particular attention to the resource management. In this chapter is also possible to read about how to evaluate the risk and the effective damages that any event can create, then there is the analysis of the effect of the Japan earthquake of 2011.
The third chapter will give to the reader an analysis of how the recovery have to be planned and implemented after the disasters. The chapter is concentrate on the timing and the actions that have to be actuated in every step of the recovery, with a particular attention to the part about the recovery policy, that has to be implemented considering some precise details of the territory.
The fourth, and last, chapter is about the possible interactions between the states and the insurance market. These interactions should be improved to alleviate the financial damages due to the disasters applying preventive insurance policies. The analysis is made in three parts: an approach to the theory of the costs for the insurances (due to extraordinary events), an approach to the game theory that interface the interactions between more actors in long term games placed to reduce risk and costs and a last part with some clue about how to improve this kind of system.
This work is made because the world has to face the changes in the environment, the pollution and in its social structure but is it ready to do it? Is there a correct level of resilience and preparedness to preserve our system? A flow in Asia had a zero effect on the economies around the globe, one hundred years ago, but now can be reason of food scarcity and drastic economic losses so the globalization changed the effects of the events: the economies are now integrated and a big catastrophe could cause a wide destabilization very easily.
However, this thesis doesn't want to give to the disasters management new solutions, model to calculate the damages or to manage the situations; it wants to define what are the particularities that interact into a disaster and what is their risk. This thesis also accomplish the role to unify various subjects of study in order to understand how the field needs various approaches to be accomplished. At least the thesis would also give some basic knowledge and an introduction to the disaster management.
The first chapter introduce the topic of the disasters, giving to the reader a landscape of the different definitions, how they are elaborated, the typologies of disasters and the perception that the people and the market have about them. This chapter is made to show the increase in the number of the events and of the side effects, such as how the cost of the disasters have reached, in the last eighteen years, around two thousand and a half billions of US dollars.
The second chapter is concentrate on the analysis of the disasters, defining the different typologies of the damages, how they influence the environment (physical and economic) and how people will be affected by the disaster in their behavior. It was done a particularly careful analysis of various study about the human behavior and the reader can understand how it will influence the management of the post-event crisis, with particular attention to the resource management. In this chapter is also possible to read about how to evaluate the risk and the effective damages that any event can create, then there is the analysis of the effect of the Japan earthquake of 2011.
The third chapter will give to the reader an analysis of how the recovery have to be planned and implemented after the disasters. The chapter is concentrate on the timing and the actions that have to be actuated in every step of the recovery, with a particular attention to the part about the recovery policy, that has to be implemented considering some precise details of the territory.
The fourth, and last, chapter is about the possible interactions between the states and the insurance market. These interactions should be improved to alleviate the financial damages due to the disasters applying preventive insurance policies. The analysis is made in three parts: an approach to the theory of the costs for the insurances (due to extraordinary events), an approach to the game theory that interface the interactions between more actors in long term games placed to reduce risk and costs and a last part with some clue about how to improve this kind of system.