Environmental Change and Natural Disasters: Asian Experience
Keywords:
Environment, natural, disasters, carbon, dioxideAbstract
Environmental change plays an important role in natural disasters. Increasing emission of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen, Sulphur dioxide, ozone depleting substances, greenhouse gas, PM10 pollutionand falling share of forest area can cause natural disasters like windstorms, flood, severe draught, heat waves etc which in turn cause substantial loss to the people in the form of death, injury,  homelessness and other damages. In this paper, an attempt has been made to find relationship between environmental change and natural disasters with the help of method of canonical correlation,  linear discriminatory function analysis and multinomial logistic regression using the data for Asian countries during the period 1991-2013. The study finds a statistically significant relationship between environmental change and natural disasters using multivariate statistical tests. Using univariate regression tests, emission of CO2 and PM10 pollution are found to be statistically significant factors contributing to the natural disasters. LDA technique and multinomial logistic regression show  in addition to CO2 and PM10, deforestation also contributed to the natural disasters.
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