What is the impact of natural disasters?

Natural disasters range from climatic disasters such as droughts, floods, hurricanes and tornadoes to geological disasters like earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis. The effects of natural disasters are both short-term and long-term and lead to either negative or positive consequences on the economy of a country. 

Natural disasters generally affect the physical infrastructural facilities, agricultural productivity and even lead to loss of life and cause damage to property. Various factors influence the effects of a disaster on a country, among them the magnitude of the disaster, the geography of the area affected and recovery efforts directed towards reducing the immediate effects of a disaster. Failure to mitigate the short-term economic effects of a disaster affects long-term economic growth of a country.



What are natural disasters?

Natural disasters, also referred to as natural hazards are extreme, sudden events caused by environmental factors such as storms, floods, droughts, fires, and heatwaves. Natural disasters are now occurring with increasing severity, scope and impact.

Causes of natural disasters

The impact of natural disasters are both short-term including loss of life and damage to property and long-term affecting the economic stability of a region or a country. Damage to infrastructure and energy production centres lead to adverse effects on a country’s economic development. Natural activities taking place in the earth’s crust, as well as surface, are the main reasons for these disasters. Flooding and erosion can occur are really prone to the areas where mining, deforestation, and manufacturing have taken place.

Prevention and Control On Natural Disaster

  • The best that we can do is to stop the practises that are harmful to our environment and leading to environmental degradation and at the same time, we should also be prepared for a disaster with our disaster management plan.
  • It is also required to dispose of the dead animals as well human bodies properly before an epidemic outbreak.
  • Our environment should be saved from pollution. Stop burning plastics and save the earth.
  • Stop cutting trees.
  • The risk factors for increased infectious diseases transmission and outbreaks are mainly associated with the after-effects of the disasters

Conclusion

The impact of natural disasters are both short-term including loss of life and damage to property and long-term affecting the economic stability of a region or a country. Damage to infrastructure and energy production centres lead to adverse effects on a country’s economic development. Recovery efforts involving construction and rebuilding of facilities help reverse the effects of disasters and provide employment to the affected people. Other natural disasters such as floods bring beneficial products as sectors such as agriculture improve.

Author name: Nishka Agarwal

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