The natural disaster economist

2024-12-24 21:14:39 source: category:Back

There seems to be headlines about floods, wildfires, or hurricanes every week. Scientists say this might be the new normal — that climate change is making natural disasters more and more common.

Tatyana Deryugina is a leading expert on the economics of natural disasters — how we respond to them, how they affect the economy, and how they change our lives. And back when Tatyana first started researching natural disasters she realized that there's a lot we don't know about their long-term economic consequences. Especially about how individuals and communities recover.

Trying to understand those questions of how we respond to natural disasters is a big part of Tatyana's research. And her research has some surprising implications for how we should be responding to natural disasters.

This episode was hosted and reported by Jeff Guo. It was produced by Emma Peaslee and edited by Jess Jiang. It was fact checked by Sierra Juarez and engineered by Josephine Nyounai. Alex Goldmark is our executive producer.

Help support Planet Money and get bonus episodes by subscribing to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney.

Always free at these links: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, NPR One or anywhere you get podcasts.

Find more Planet Money: Facebook / Instagram / TikTok / Our weekly Newsletter.

Music: NPR Source Audio - "New Western" and "Lone Star Desert Surfer"

More:Back

Recommend

Amazon Black Friday 2024 sales event will start Nov. 21: See some of the deals

Amazon shoppers, mark your calendars. The tech retailing giant has announced the dates for its Black

Don Lemon Returning to CNN After Controversial Nikki Haley Comments

Don Lemon is heading back on air.The CNN This Morning co-anchor will return to the morning show on F

Seymour Stein, the record executive who signed Madonna, is dead at 80

NEW YORK — Seymour Stein, the brash, prescient and highly successful founder of Sire Records who hel