Hello,
This question reminds me of a study that was carried out after the Oct 3,
1988 flood disaster in Nîmes
by Claire Arnal and Philippe Masure, from BRGM - Bureau de Recherches
Géologiques et Minières.
The main point of this study was to perform an economic evaluation of gain
and losses along three zones :
The disaser zone
The peripheric zone
The remaining French territory
As a result it appeared clearly the peripheric zone has a large positive
balance, this net gain being offset by the loss
of the disaster zone and not to a minor extent of the rest of France
through solidarity systems (the total loss was close to FF 4,4 billion).
This can be easily explained by the fact this peripheric zone appears as
the zone that is too far from the disaster zone to bear losses
and close enough to act as a "support zone" : e.g. the public works
companies from this peripheric zone are resquested to clear roads,
the inhabitants form the disaster zone will go shopping to the peripheric
zone etc.
Gérard Brugnot
At 16:22 05/11/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello all.
>I was wondering if anyone had any ideas as to Who benefits from Natural
>Disasters (financially, or in other ways.)
> Thanks for your help
>
>Mike
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