Study shows, women and farmers suffer biggest and long-term losses in natural disasters

The head of the Deakin University Department of Economics and the Centre for Energy, the Environment and Natural Disasters, Prof. Mehmet Ulubasoğlu, talked to SBS Turkish about how farmers, women and tourism sector employees take the biggest hit in income after natural disasters like floods and bushfires

Yangınların geride bıraktığı yıkımın uzun dönemli sonuçlarını gidermek her zamankinden daha önemli. Source: Hitomi Nakanishi

Prof. Mehmet Ulubasoglu from Melbourne’s Deakin University talked to SBS Turkish about his studies into groups and sectors that suffer from natural disasters in an effort to assist the better allocation of aid and resources after a natural disaster sweeps through a region.

Ulubasoğlu, who works with state and federal governments, explained why the urban cost of rebuilding is so much higher than rural properties, the necessity of further studies into new areas like the cost of smoke pollution, and how to alleviate the suffering of certain groups and sectors, especially women, farmers and tourism sector employees.