Measuring disaster recovery
Bouncing Back or Reaching the Counterfactual State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7750299 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shaoming Cheng (Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration Florida International University United States), Emel Ganapati (Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration Florida International University United States), Sukumar Ganapati (0000-0001-7119-9510, Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration Florida International University United States) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 427-446 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Disasters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/disa.12112 |
| PMID | 25581221 |
| OpenAlex | W2032139312 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 40 |
How should one measure the recovery of a locale from a disaster? The measurement is crucial from a public policy and administration standpoint to determine which places should receive disaster assistance, and it affects the performance evaluation of disaster recovery programmes. This paper compares two approaches to measuring recovery: (i) bouncing back to pre‐disaster conditions; and (ii) attaining the counterfactual state. The former centres on returning to normalcy following disaster‐induced losses, whereas the latter focuses on attaining the state, using quasi‐experimental design, which would have existed if the disaster had not occurred. Both are employed here to assess two housing recovery indicators (total new units and their valuations) in Hurricane Katrina‐affected counties (rural and urban). The examination reveals significantly different outcomes for the two approaches: counties have not returned to their pre‐disaster housing conditions, but they do exhibit counterfactual recovery. Moreover, rural counties may not be as vulnerable as assumed in the disaster recovery literature
Business · Counterfactual thinking · Disaster recovery · Disaster research · Economics · Environmental health · Injury prevention · Occupational safety and health · Poison control · Political science · State (computer science · Suicide prevention · Computer Science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |