The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer (35 page)

Indian Ocean,
89
,
127
–28,
132

Inhofe, James,
27

Institute for International Economic Studies,
29

Institute for Seismic Research,
80

Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado,
178

Insurrection Act,
184
–85

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB),
119

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC),
127

International Monetary Fund (IMF),
42

Italy,
43
,
69
,
94
,
98

Jackson, Alphonso,
196
,
200
,
204

Japan

disasters and,
6
,
11
–12

earthquakes and,
28
,
64
–65, 74–75

growth,
46

Kanto earthquake,
188

Korea and,
188
–89

Myanmar and,
80
,
140
–41

“the Thing” and,
215
,
218

Tohoku earthquake,
132
–38

tsunamis and,
60
,
123
,
126

Typhoon Warning Center,
145

Kahneman, Daniel,
4
,
178

Karan, Donna,
120

Katz, Bruce,
160

Katz, Jonathan,
83
,
86
,
94
–95

Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR),
201
–2,
216

Kennedy, John F.,
185

King, Rodney,
184
–85,
213

Klinenberg, Eric,
31
,
41

Kouchner, Bernard,
154

Kunreuther, Howard,
14
,
116

L'Aquila earthquake,
69
–70,
72
,
98
,
103

LA riots,
184
–85,
213

Larkin, Emma,
150

Laskin, David,
31

Leadership Dispatches
(Urseem, Kunreuther, and Kerjan),
116

liquefaction,
74
–75

Lisbon earthquake of 1755,
99
,
186
,
193

Logan, John,
194
–95,
198
,
202
,
204

Loma Prieta earthquake,
35
,
74
,
101
,
104

looting,
18
,
20
,
105
–9,
111
,
113
–15,
178
–84,
186
–88,
209
,
217
–19

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF),
176

LTL Strategies,
90
–91

Manhattan Project,
25

McClelland, Mac,
101

Meigs, Montgomery,
30
–32,
39

meteorology,
13
,
27
–28,
33
,
61
,
80
,
148
,
171

militarization

Ferguson and,
213
–14

Rodney King riots and,
213

Mill, John Stuart,
21

MINUSTAH,
87
–88

Mismeasuring Our Lives
(Stiglitz),
42

Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO),
169
–71

moral hazard,
23
,
252
n16

Morial, Marc,
197

Morrow, Betty Hearn,
14

Mother Jones
magazine,
101
,
196

Myanmar

Cyclone Nargis and,
145
–48

economic situation,
143
–45

history,
154
–55

land management,
154
–56

military government,
150
–52

overview,
139
–43

poverty and,
149
–50

reaction to Nargis,
148
–54

Nagin, Ray,
157
,
162
–63,
165
,
180
,
195
,
197

National Guard,
180
–81,
184
–84,
214

National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
30
,
32
,
147

National Public Radio (NPR),
96

natural disasters

analysis of,
17
–21

capital losses and,
41
–46

defined,
15
–16

economy and,
11
–15

efforts to predict,
9
–10,
22
–24

fatalities and,
29
–32

GDP and,
10
–11

hazard and,
23

individuals “affected” by,
38
–39

injuries and,
35
–38

overview,
9
,
48
–49

phases of 17–21

politics and,
30
–34

rebuilding following,
21
–22

science and,
22
–24

social change and,
15
–17

social harm and,
39
–48

statistics on,
27
–29

study of,
24
–27

Natural History of Destruction, The
(Sebold),
22

Nemcova, Petra,
120

neoclassical growth theory,
46

Nepal,
87
,
118

New Orleans

corruption,
162
–63

elite panic and,
182
–87

FEMA and,
174
–76

framing of disaster,
176
–78

impact of Katrina on,
167
–72

Katrina and,
162
–72

media coverage of,
178
–82

Myanmar and,
172
–74

overview,
159
–60

poverty and,
160
–62

race and,
187
–90

waterways,
169
–72

see also
Hurricane Katrina

New Zealand,
74
,
76
,
207

night light maps,
53
–57

nongovernmental organizations (NGOs),
10
,
33
,
87
,
103
,
129
–30,
144
,
151
–52

Nordhaus, William D.,
53
,
78

North Korea,
31
,
54
,
256
–7n29

Obama, Barack,
214
,
273
n2

Okeechobee hurricane,
166
–67

Other Side of Sadness, The
(Bonanno),
22

Pakistan,
71
,
92
–93

Paulsen, Fernando,
111
,
114

peak ground acceleration (PGA),
98
,
101

Philippines,
38
,
63
,
78
,
147
–48,
156
–57

Piketty, Thomas,
42

Piñera, Sebastián,
112
,
116

Pitt, Brad,
120

poverty

corruption and,
26
,
48
,
109

disaster-related deaths and,
29
,
41

geography and,
51
–56,
59
,
65
,
67
,
71
,
76
–77,
80
–82,
211

Haiti and,
85
–86,
88
,
94
,
97
,
99
,
109
,
115
,
118
–19

Los Angeles and,
184

Myanmar and,
139
,
145
,
161

New Orleans and,
159
–60,
203

physical aspect of,
25
–26

poverty trap,
46
–48,
145
,
149
,
159

Sri Lanka and,
131

violence and,
103
–4,
188

see also
wealth

prediction

Cyclone Nargis and,
145

cyclones/hurricanes,
61
–64

disaster,
23
–24,
137

hazard and,
23

Hurricane Katrina and,
168

earthquakes,
2
–3,
61
,
64
–70,
77
,
94
,
97
–98

overview,
4
–5

poverty and,
243

Superstorm Sandy and,
80
,
208

Typhoon Naiyan (Yolanda) and,
157

Préval, René,
94
–95

profiteering,
83
,
97
,
210
–11,
223
–24

Prospect Theory,
4

public unrest, disaster and

class and,
215
–20

DDR and,
220
–22

overview,
213
–15,
223
–24

purchasing power parity (PPP) adjustment,
44

Quarantelli, Enrico,
177
–79

quarantines,
16

Rana Plaza sweatshop collapse,
36
–37,
72
–73,
77
,
94
–95

randomized control trials (RCTs),
10

rebuilding, social change and

BNOB and,
197
–201

Hurricane Katrina and,
194
–97

KBR and,
201
–2

New Orleans post-Katrina,
202
–4

overview,
191
–94

race and,
204
–8

Superstorm Sandy and,
198
–200,
208
–11

Red Cross,
35
,
80
,
89
,
147

Rede Lecture,
25

refugees,
37
,
103
,
261
n41

regional development banks,
23
,
118

ReliefWeb,
92

Rise of the Warrior Cop
(Balko),
215

Rozario, Kevin,
193
–94

Sachs, Jeffrey,
51
,
53
,
78
,
243
–44

Sae-A,
118
–19

Saffir-Simpson scale,
63
–64,
147
,
171

see also
cyclones

Sanco Enterprises,
117
–18

Santorum, Rick,
196

Sastry, Narayan,
201

Schmitz, Eugene,
186
–87

Schumpeter, Joseph,
13
,
96
,
110
,
131
,
154
,
192
,
220

Sebold, W. G.,
22

Sein, Thein,
150
–51

seismology

Chile and,
110

prediction and,
2
–3,
22
,
30
,
120
–21

Haiti earthquake and,
5

L'Aquila earthquake and,
69
–70,
72

Major Risks Committee,
69

New Zealand earthquakes and,
76

peak ground acceleration,
98

study of earthquakes,
57
,
60
–61,
68
–69,
76

tectonic plate map,
57

Tohoku earthquake and,
66

see also
earthquakes; faults

Selth, Andrew,
153
–54

September 11,
36
–37,
39
,
174
,
177
,
201
,
273
n2

Sharkey, Patrick,
197

Shwe, Than,
164
,
174

Skidmore, Mark,
13

slipperiness,
136

Snow, C. P.,
25

Sobel, Russell,
202

Solow, Robert,
239

Solow-Swan model,
239
,
242
–43

South Korea,
16

Sri Lanka,
126
–32,
137
,
146

starvation,
35
–36

Stiglitz, Joseph,
11
,
42

Stiller, Ben,
120

Superstorm Sandy,
34
,
38
,
47
,
59
,
62
,
80
–81,
166
,
198
,
208
–10

Talmadge, Caitlin,
173

tectonic plates,
57
,
125

see also
earthquakes

Thieves of State
(Chayes),
97

Thinking, Fast and Slow
(Kahneman),
4

Thompson, A.C.,
187
–88

tofu dregs,
71
,
95
–96

Tohoku earthquake,
66
,
132
–36,
218

topography,
61
,
64
,
75
–76,
100
–1,
121
,
130
,
146

Toya, Hideki,
13

Transparency International,
77
,
97
,
110
,
122
,
157

tsunamis

death tolls and,
36

Japan,
11
,
132
–38

overview,
125
–28

Sri Lanka,
128
–32

typhoons,
11
,
33
,
58
,
78
,
148
,
191