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The trap of climate change-induced “natural” disasters and inequality
Ist Teil von
Global environmental change, 2021-09, Vol.70, p.102329, Article 102329
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Elsevier Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
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Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete
Beschreibungen/Notizen
•The paper explores the connection between climate change-induced disasters, inequality and vulnerability.•We study a panel of 149 countries from 1992 to 2018.•Natural disasters affect more countries with higher income inequality.•Inequality increases future disaster vulnerability.•A vicious cycle keeps some countries stuck in a disasters-inequality trap.
The purpose of the present paper is to disentangle the mechanisms that connect climate change-induced disasters, inequality and vulnerability by accounting for both directions of causality. We do so by means of a simultaneous equations approach on a panel of 149 countries from 1992 to 2018. The empirical analysis reveals that countries with higher levels of income inequality suffer greater damages when hit by a natural disaster. At the same time, inequality is found to increase the number of people affected by disasters. Our analysis discloses the existence of a vicious cycle that keeps some countries stuck in a disasters-inequality trap.