| 来源类型 | Other |
| 规范类型 | 其他 |
| Vulnerability to Weather Disasters: The Choice of Coping Strategies in Rural Uganda. | |
| Helgeson J; Dietz S; Hochrainer-Stigler S | |
| 发表日期 | 2012 |
| 出处 | Working Paper No. 107, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy; Working Paper No. 91, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE, London, UK (1 October 2012) DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2191965 . |
| 出版年 | 2012 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | When a natural disaster hits, the affected households try to cope with its impacts. A variety of coping strategies may be employed, from reducing current consumption to disposing of productive assets. The latter strategies are especially worrisome, as they may reduce the capacity of the household to generate income in the future, possibly leading to chronic poverty. In this paper, we use the results of a household survey in rural Uganda to ask, first, what coping strategies would tend to be employed in the event of a weather disaster, second, given that multiple strategies can be chosen, in what combinations would they tend to be employed, and, third, given that asset-liquidation strategies can be particularly harmful for the future income prospects of households, what determines their uptake? Our survey is one of the largest of its kind, containing over 3000 observations garnered by local workers using smart-phone technology. We find that in this rural sample by far the most frequently reported choice would be to sell livestock. This is rather striking, since asset-based theories would predict more reliance on strategies like eating and spending less today, which avoid disposal of productive assets. It may well be that livestock are held as a form of liquid savings too, among other things, help bounce back from a weather disaster. Yet we do find that other strategies, which might undermine future prospects, are avoided, notably selling land or the home, and disrupting the children's education. Our econometric analysis reveals a fairly rich set of determinants of different subsets of coping strategies. Perhaps most notably, households with a more educated head are much less likely to choose coping strategies involving taking their own children out of education. |
| 主题 | Risk, Policy and Vulnerability (RPV) ; Risk & ; Resilience (RISK) |
| 关键词 | Coping strategies Covariate risk Education Extreme weather Poverty trap Small-scale farming Vulnerability Uganda |
| URL | http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/10112/ |
| 来源智库 | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/135438 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Helgeson J,Dietz S,Hochrainer-Stigler S. Vulnerability to Weather Disasters: The Choice of Coping Strategies in Rural Uganda.. 2012. |
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