SSRI/DuPRI Seminar Series ~ "The demography of natural disasters: What can we learn from DesInventar?"

ABSTRACT: "Although climate-related extreme events---floods, rain-induced landslides, and droughts---are receiving increasing attention in the development and disaster risk-reduction communities, demographic analysis of the incidence and consequences of these events has remained very scarce indeed. In part this is because spatially-specific data are needed not only on where extreme events take place, but also on the demographic characteristics of those exposed to risk. This seminar will present spatially-detailed disaster data from the remarkable DesInventar project covering the past quarter-century in many Latin American countries, and will link these data to equally detailed spatially-specific demographic measures drawn from census micro-data and small-area poverty maps." Seminar #4373