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INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS
APRIL 2012
VOL 3, NO 12
Literature Review
According to Alcamo (2003) natural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and
so on, have massive economic repercussions for the affected regions’ as they wreak
havoc on the region's economy by causing disastrous loss of life and valuable resources,
like food, water and housing. Extremely violent storms or geological events like
earthquakes and volcanic eruptions can wipe out bridges, roads and destroy rail and
airport systems, disrupting commerce. Arnell (1999)”Disaster and their consequences”.
He illustrated that a disaster is regarded a cause of disastrous loss of life and valuable
resources without caring that it is beyond the capacity of our society to cope using its
own limited resources. Natural disasters also give rise to increased inflation and thus
worsen poverty for an already worse region. While prices for many commodities, such
as food, lumber and other building materials often rise, after a natural disaster causes
destruction on a large scale. In the weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast,
prices for lumber, panels and particle board soared by as much as 50% and remained
high as demand for rebuilding materials competed with demand from the country's
already overheated housing market (Chiew 2002).
Drought (2005) the danger of mounting inflation and the massive loss of human
productivity undoubtedly block economic growth of the victim regions in the months,
and even years, that follow the natural disaster. Poverty is multidimensional and thus
many factors contribute to poverty but its most obvious expression is insufficient
household income, while there is also a very effective role of NGO`s in developing the
Socio-Economic condition and reducing the poverty. Well if Socio-Economic status it is
a measure of economic and sociological behaviors when combined they give total
experience of a person and an individual or a social and economic position of the family
in relation to others, which can be based on income, education & occupation. “An
analysis of a family, family income, education & occupation are examined, as well as
the combined income, compared with a person, when their attributes are evaluated by
"Geiser, (2010)” in Status Syndrome: How social standing affects our health and
longevity.
Henstra (2010) Socio-Economics means the study of society, or more concisely or more
narrowly that it is study or practice of different behavioral interactions of individuals
and groups through social capital and social markets. There are different factors which
are considered as the basic unites of life. NGO`s also play vital role in uplifting the
socioeconomic condition of a society by helping them rehabilitating them through
fulfilling their basic needs like shelter, food clothes etc. As shelter is our basic need and
it is impossible for human beings to survive without shelter. We need a place we can
rest our body and mind, which also protect us from different natural elements and
provide security. While Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory defines housing as a basic
human need which come under shelter that gives protection from the elements, security
& stability. Food & shelter are our basic needs they have to be met in order to survive.
Maslow further elaborated that such needs must be met in order apprehended by Ibem
(2011), Food & water are what we need to keep us alive, and should be our top concerns
when trying to build a sustainable community. If these requirements are fulfilled to go
to other needs that is fabrics and health. This is an important issue, as humans need to
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