Handbook for Estimating the Socio-Economic and Environmental Effects of Disasters
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This new version of the ECLAC Handbook describes
the methods required to assess the social, economic and environmental effects
of disasters, breaking them down into direct damages and indirect losses
and into overall and macroeconomic effects. It focuses on the conceptual
and methodological aspects of measuring or estimating the damage caused
by disasters to capital stocks and losses in the production flows of goods
and services, as well as any temporary effects on the main macroeconomic
variables. This new edition also contemplates both damage to and effects
on living conditions, economic performance and the environment. The handbook
is divided into five sections:
- The first describes the general conceptual and methodological framework
- The second outlines the methods for estimating damage and losses to social sectors
- The third section concentrates on services and physical infrastructure
- The fourth section covers damages and losses to productive sectors
- The fifth section deals with overall, cross-sectoral and macroeconomic effects.
The document is a revised and extended version of the handbook published in the 1970s by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and it is the result of the conceptual analyses of many disasters that have occurred in the region over the past three decades.
- The first describes the general conceptual and methodological framework
- The second outlines the methods for estimating damage and losses to social sectors
- The third section concentrates on services and physical infrastructure
- The fourth section covers damages and losses to productive sectors
- The fifth section deals with overall, cross-sectoral and macroeconomic effects.
The document is a revised and extended version of the handbook published in the 1970s by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and it is the result of the conceptual analyses of many disasters that have occurred in the region over the past three decades.