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Principles of evidence-based medicine have transformed the way we look at clinical interventions and may prevent repetitions of public-health disasters such as the inappropriate promotion of hormone replacement therapy and anti-arrhythmic drugs.
Soaring food and fuel prices and major natural disasters played an important role in undermining financial markets, household purchasing power, and even political stability.
The World Meteorological Organization has recorded more than 8,000 weather, climate, and water-related disasters worldwide since 1970, costing nearly two million lives and some $2.4 trillion.
These numbers are unlikely to fall in the near term, as calamities caused by climate change, and by human and natural disasters, continue to push even more people from their communities.
Major disasters are often the result of a failure to think in such terms, as evidenced, tragically, by the fatal Grenfell Tower fire in the UK.
And he thought deeply about the technocratic problems of economic management – and about the social, moral, and political disasters that would follow from failing to address them.
In unelectrified areas that are vulnerable to climate change, natural disasters, and economic migration, mini-grids are often the only option.
BERKELEY – Now that we are witnessing what looks like the historic decline of the West, it is worth asking what role economists might have played in the disasters of the past decade.
What the EU learned from the subsequent four years of Balkan disasters under its management is now being tested by another major turning point and potential crisis – when and how Kosovo is to become independent.
The disasters of two world wars, and the half-century of Cold War, pushed Europe to embrace cooperation and integration in order to avoid another suicidal battle.
Though it is too early to draw definitive conclusions, in the long run storms may contribute more significantly to the global costs of disasters, which already exceed $100 billion annually.
Since 2008, for example, more than 150 million people worldwide have been displaced by disasters that few predicted.
And worse disasters will surely occur as the changing climate interacts with other social ills such as poverty, environmental degradation, population growth, urbanization, and poor land use.
More such disasters, they suggested, are inescapable unless world leaders in Paris take decisive action to limit global climate change.
If we see Chennai as a one-off event, an “act of God” rather than an error of Man, further disasters will be unavoidable.
Admittedly, the impact of natural disasters is less systemic; but if a calamity takes out key components of networks that lack redundancy and backup, the effects are similar.
The US incurred $300 billion in losses from climate-related disasters last year, including three massive hurricanes – the frequency and intensity of which has risen, owing to fossil-fuel dependence.
China has recently suffered other public-relations disasters as well.
And some are implementing risk-management and hedging tools to shield farmers from drought and flood, and poor consumers from the food-price volatility that such disasters cause.
The insurance company Lloyds of London has now begun to fret that the absence of natural disasters is putting a squeeze on its premiums.
To the extent that a higher debt ratio is allowed only in exceptional situations (Article 100 of the Treaty), such as natural disasters (where a bailout would be allowed), a legal conflict should not arise.
Why, one wonders, did it take multiple transatlantic disasters for the EU to realize that it must attend to its own security?
Doctors Without Borders introduced the concept of "the right of intervention" in humanitarian disasters, bypassing the strictures of traditional international law.
Charity responds to attention-grabbing events, often neglecting less sensational disasters.
To deal with disasters more effectively, countries must find the will to create an environment in which a much more developed private insurance industry can flourish.
Various catastrophe bonds, covering earthquakes and other disasters, and weather derivatives have begun trading on financial markets in recent years.
The markets for these products are still small, but they have strong growth potential, and their further development would enhance insurance companies’ ability to cover risks of major international disasters.
The failure was caused by the absence of appropriate international institutions that would be alert to the broad spectrum of potential disasters.
Bernanke made his name as an economist by analyzing the worldwide Great Depression of the 1930’s – good expertise to have, since preventing such disasters is a central bank head’s most important job.
It is the story of how the Japanese people, through centuries of memory and shared experience, have built up their resilience to natural disasters.
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