Journal article
Patterns of government disaster policy response in Peru
World development, Vol.182, 106707
10/2024
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106707
Abstract
•This paper introduces a new quantitative dataset of government disaster response and examines the patterns among disaster events in Peru from 1900 to 2020.•The Peruvian government is the most active actor in short-term disaster response, although post-disaster reconstruction and coordinating with outside aid groups has become more common in recent decades.•Nongovernmental organizations are active in more cases (38 % of cases) than international organizations (24 %), while political leaders visit affected areas in close to half of all cases (46 %).•Restrictions and relocation of affected populations are most likely to occur after floods and landslides, but are usually temporary.
Our study introduces a new quantitative dataset of government disaster responses for 183 disasters in Peru from 1900 to 2020. We examine disaster responses in the form of relocation of affected individuals, restrictions on movement, reconstruction of damaged areas, and regulations of third-party disaster relief. Prior analyses of large earthquakes and El Niño events in Peru reveal that government response to hazards shapes the outcomes for social, conflict, and economic outcomes. Our dataset contributes quantitative coding of a much larger sample of disasters to identify useful patterns in disaster response. We show that the Peruvian government is the most active actor in disaster response, although international organizations and nongovernmental organizations are active in nearly a third of all disasters. Restrictions and relocation of affected populations occur, but this tends to be temporary, rather than long-term solutions to mitigate risks from future disasters. Relocation of affected people occurs more often for floods and landslides, while regulation of third-party activities occurs more frequently with floods and extreme temperature events; other disaster response policies do not vary across disaster types. Disaster responses have also shifted over time, with the government providing more funds for post-disaster reconstruction and coordinating with outside aid groups more actively in recent decades. The results demonstrate the feasibility and importance of tracking patterns of response across hazard events to fully understand the role of government in disaster response. Our larger data collection project will provide similar data for all countries over time, which will help us situate Peru’s patterns of disaster response in the larger disaster management landscape and understand how government policy choices influence political violence, migration, and other political dynamics.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Patterns of government disaster policy response in Peru
- Creators
- Sara McLaughlin MitchellElise Pizzi
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- World development, Vol.182, 106707
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106707
- ISSN
- 0305-750X
- eISSN
- 1873-5991
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Grant note
- National Science Foundation: SES-2148845
We are grateful to David Greenwood-Sanchez, Ore Koren, and Wesley Wehde and for comments on an earlier draft and to our DMV Lab research assistants (http://saramitchell.org/dmvteam.html) for their help in collecting data presented in this paper, especially Carly Millerd. Support for this research comes from National Science Foundation grant SES-2148845.
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/2024
- Academic Unit
- Center for Social Science Innovation; Political Science; Law Faculty
- Record Identifier
- 9984649148902771
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