Mark Montgomery - Population Council
"The demography of natural disasters: What can we learn from DesInventar?"
Date: 10/02/2014 (Thu)
Time: 3:30pm- 5:00pm
Location: Seminar will be held on-site: Gross Hall - 103
Organizer: Maria-Giovanna Merli, Ph.D.
Meeting Schedule: Login or email the organizer to schedule a meeting.
All meetings will be held in the same location as the seminar unless otherwise noted.
9:30am - Duncan Thomas
10:00am - Elizabeth Frankenberg
10:30am - Jessica Ho
11:00am - Nick Ingwersen
11:30am - Kehinde Ajayi
12:00pm - LUNCH -- Rob Garlick, Jessica Ho
1:15pm - Open for Students: Maria M. Laurito
1:45pm - Amar Hamoudi
2:15pm - Marcos Rangel
2:45pm - Giovanna Merli
3:15pm - Prepare for seminar
3:30pm - Seminar Presentation (3:30pm to 5:00pm)
Additional Comments: ABSTRACT: "Although climate-related extreme events---floods, rain-induced landslides, and droughts---are receiving increasing attention in the development and disaster risk-reduction communities, demographic analysis of the incidence and consequences of these events has remained very scarce indeed. In part this is because spatially-specific data are needed not only on where extreme events take place, but also on the demographic characteristics of those exposed to risk. This seminar will present spatially-detailed disaster data from the remarkable DesInventar project covering the past quarter-century in many Latin American countries, and will link these data to equally detailed spatially-specific demographic measures drawn from census micro-data and small-area poverty maps. "