Exploring disaster impacts on adaptation actions in 549 cities worldwide.

ABSTRACT: Whether disasters influence adaptation actions in cities is contested. Yet, the extant knowledge base primarily consists of single or small-N case studies, so there is no global overview of the evidence on disaster impacts and adaptation. Here, we use regression analysis to explore the effects of disaster frequency and severity on four adaptation action types in 549 cities. In countries with greater adaptive capacity, economic losses increase city-level actions targeting recently experienced disaster event types, as well as actions to strengthen general disaster preparedness. An increase in disaster frequency reduces actions targeting hazard types other than those that recently occurred, while human losses have few effects. Comparisons between cities across levels of adaptive capacity indi

SUBMITTER: Nohrstedt D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9187717 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature