Reporting the natural environmental hazards occurrences and fatalities over the last century

Halkos, George and Zisiadou, Argyro (2018): Reporting the natural environmental hazards occurrences and fatalities over the last century.

Abstract

This paper presents the occurrences and fatalities of natural environmental hazards drawing an initial picture of concentration, if there is any. For that reason, the authors use aggregate regional tables as well as map visualizations created in R- studio. As it is shown, there appears to be a space concentration on the natural environmental hazards that need to be deeply examined with the use of advanced econometric techniques.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Biological, climatological, extra-terrestrial, geophysical, hydrological, meteorological, risk, hazard, disaster, economic damage,
• Subjects: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C6 - Mathematical Methods ; Programming Models ; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling > C63 - Computational Techniques ; Simulation Modeling; D - Microeconomics > D6 - Welfare Economics > D62 - Externalities; H - Public Economics > H1 - Structure and Scope of Government > H12 - Crisis Management; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty > I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q5 - Environmental Economics > Q50 - General

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