Does safer housing save lives? An analysis of typhoon mortality and dwellings in the Philippines
Field | Value | Language |
dc.contributor.author | Healey, Sarah | |
dc.contributor.author | Lloyd, Sophie | |
dc.contributor.author | Gray, Jasmine | |
dc.contributor.author | Opdyke, Aaron | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-07-15T07:39:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-07-15T07:39:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023 | en_AU |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2123/32790 | |
dc.description.abstract | Storms globally account for the highest loss of life among weather-related natural hazards. This study examines the relationship between components of housing vulnerability and typhoon related mortality in the Philippines at a municipal level between 2005 and 2015 using a Hurdle Negative Binomial (HNB) model. We find that in municipalities with greater prevalence of extreme substandard housing, unimproved household water sources, crowdedness, lower housing density, and less secure tenure, people are more likely to die from typhoons when controlling for typhoon proximity and wind speed as well as coastal proximity. We recommend targeted investments in safer housing in municipalities of Region VIII, Region XI and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) where correlations between housing vulnerability and disaster mortality are the highest. This research provides new knowledge of the link between housing and mortality in disasters, offering one of the first national scale assessments to quantify the contributions of safer housing in reducing loss of life in disasters. | en_AU |
dc.language.iso | en | en_AU |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_AU |
dc.relation.ispartof | International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction | en_AU |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 | en_AU |
dc.subject | mortality | en_AU |
dc.subject | housing | en_AU |
dc.subject | typhoons | en_AU |
dc.subject | vulnerability | en_AU |
dc.title | Does safer housing save lives? An analysis of typhoon mortality and dwellings in the Philippines | en_AU |
dc.type | Article | en_AU |
dc.subject.asrc | ANZSRC FoR code::40 ENGINEERING::4010 Engineering practice and education::401004 Humanitarian engineering | en_AU |
dc.subject.asrc | ANZSRC FoR code::35 COMMERCE, MANAGEMENT, TOURISM AND SERVICES::3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour::350703 Disaster and emergency management | en_AU |
dc.subject.asrc | ANZSRC FoR code::44 HUMAN SOCIETY::4404 Development studies::440402 Humanitarian disasters, conflict and peacebuilding | en_AU |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103433 | |
dc.type.pubtype | Author accepted manuscript | en_AU |
usyd.faculty | SeS faculties schools::Faculty of Engineering::School of Civil Engineering | en_AU |
usyd.citation.volume | 84 | en_AU |
usyd.citation.spage | 103433 | en_AU |
workflow.metadata.only | No | en_AU |
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