Methodology
My research methodology is designed to eliminate the dichotomy between traditional natural disasters, thought to be exacerbated by climate change and ones where climate change plays little to no role in their occurrence, severity, and detectability (traditionally earthquakes and volcanoes are believed to not be affected by climate change). There are three main parts of the methodology. The first part involves collecting data from the worst natural disasters by ICCC categories [biological (epidemic), geophysical (volcano), hydrological (flood), meteorological (storm), and climatological (heat wave)] for each country in existence; this corresponds to 1176 discrete events, and the majority of the data comes from the EM-DAT Database …show more content…
Next I will perform an Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), utilizing a Fixed-effects model to determine which indirect drivers of ecosystem change (including human rights violations per country, population density, and the notions of charity, purity, and self awareness, associated with various religions) correspond to a statistical significant change in the response variable (Resiliency: Magnitude of Disaster * # of Deaths from Disaster). From Appendix 1, some countries resiliencies look highly susceptible to changes in magnitude of disasters. For others, the magnitude of the disaster does not appear to be correlated with deaths/resiliency. Highly resilient countries will exhibit vastly different human rights violation scores than the countries prone to natural disasters. From this data via the CIA World Factbook, the EM-Dat database, and HRW World Report 2015, I will use a t-test to determine if the two groups’ resiliency means are statistically different from each other. Those results will allow me to design the third and final part of the methodology, a before and after survey of …show more content…
Countries resilient to all natural disasters will possess similar characteristics associated with indirect drivers of ecosystem change. Countries very susceptible to natural disasters will also display similar characteristics associated with indirect drivers of ecosystem change. Augmented Reality will prove to be one of the greatest ways of inducing natural disaster resiliency improvements, in our everyday individual daily choices. The UN will be able to further implement their agenda of linking human rights violations to natural disaster perpetuation, and the UN will have an easier time getting countries to accept a universal doctrine requiring all governments to support people suffering from natural disasters. Natural disasters will look less like Acts of God and more like human induced events. This section is a work in progress and will be developed as I discover more
My research methodology is designed to eliminate the dichotomy between traditional natural disasters, thought to be exacerbated by climate change and ones where climate change plays little to no role in their occurrence, severity, and detectability (traditionally earthquakes and volcanoes are believed to not be affected by climate change). There are three main parts of the methodology. The first part involves collecting data from the worst natural disasters by ICCC categories [biological (epidemic), geophysical (volcano), hydrological (flood), meteorological (storm), and climatological (heat wave)] for each country in existence; this corresponds to 1176 discrete events, and the majority of the data comes from the EM-DAT Database …show more content…
Next I will perform an Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), utilizing a Fixed-effects model to determine which indirect drivers of ecosystem change (including human rights violations per country, population density, and the notions of charity, purity, and self awareness, associated with various religions) correspond to a statistical significant change in the response variable (Resiliency: Magnitude of Disaster * # of Deaths from Disaster). From Appendix 1, some countries resiliencies look highly susceptible to changes in magnitude of disasters. For others, the magnitude of the disaster does not appear to be correlated with deaths/resiliency. Highly resilient countries will exhibit vastly different human rights violation scores than the countries prone to natural disasters. From this data via the CIA World Factbook, the EM-Dat database, and HRW World Report 2015, I will use a t-test to determine if the two groups’ resiliency means are statistically different from each other. Those results will allow me to design the third and final part of the methodology, a before and after survey of …show more content…
Countries resilient to all natural disasters will possess similar characteristics associated with indirect drivers of ecosystem change. Countries very susceptible to natural disasters will also display similar characteristics associated with indirect drivers of ecosystem change. Augmented Reality will prove to be one of the greatest ways of inducing natural disaster resiliency improvements, in our everyday individual daily choices. The UN will be able to further implement their agenda of linking human rights violations to natural disaster perpetuation, and the UN will have an easier time getting countries to accept a universal doctrine requiring all governments to support people suffering from natural disasters. Natural disasters will look less like Acts of God and more like human induced events. This section is a work in progress and will be developed as I discover more