Climate Disasters and Sustainability Challenges: A Way Forward in Industry 4.0

As environmental disasters continue to rise in number and severity across the globe, electoral systems present an outlet for voters to voice their frustration and pain. Many previous authors have explored the dynamic of disaster politics and come to different conclusions on a variety of topics. This difference-in-difference analysis uses an original panel data set to identify if Junkins Wildfire had an impact on partisan vote share percentages. The results from the analysis show that the Junkins Wildfire did not have a statistically significant impact of Democratic vote share percentage but in some cases the wildfire did have a statistically significant impact on Republican vote share percentages, suggesting that natural disaster events may impact voting outcomes. 

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ELECTORAL LANDSLIDE? MORE LIKE ELECTORAL WILDFIRE: An Econometric Difference in Difference Analysis of Colorado Wildfires Impact on U.S. Congressional Elections

If we analyze the history of natural disasters relating to political impacts, we can see that there are many direct or indirect impacts of disaster management, including the aid distribution in the political arena. The political scenario concerns how the government is handling the aid distribution and how the other significant actors are reacting to the situation. Do different political situations create differences in disaster response? Here the facts of the Bhola cyclone of 1970 and the 2007 Sidr cyclone in Bangladesh have been engaged to analyze these questions. These two cyclones occurred during two different political situations in two different times but at the same land area. This research will help to understand natural disaster management relating to political aspects, which will then contribute to better natural disaster management for Bangladesh. The method is qualitative with secondary data and various published scholarly articles reviewed for this research. The findings suggest that politics has a significant role in managing natural disaster. And the natural disaster management pattern leaves an impact on the government and current political context. In the case of the Bhola cyclone, the mismanagement of the government impacted the 1970’s voting outcome. On the other hand, in the case of the Sidr cyclone, the caretaker government impacted natural disaster management in the country in a different way. Through these historical impacts the author identifies from a political perspective the challenges of natural disasters and relief distribution, and then recommends the necessary directions to support the government for better management.

Political Impact on Natural Disaster Management and the Influence of Civil Society: Cases of Two Cyclones in Bangladesh

ABSTRACT The article explores the impact of one of the deadliest disasters in the twentieth century, the East Pakistan cyclone of 1970, also known as the Great Bhola Cyclone, on the first-ever general election held in united Pakistan immediately thereafter. It argues that the cumulative dissidence of the eastern bloc since the partition of India in 1947 had reached its crescendo and made a landfall impact following the disastrous aftermath of the cyclone, which was evidenced in the general election of December 1970, creating the very triggering effect that led to a series of political events and the bloodbath that followed, eventually culminating in the formation of an independent nation-state of Bangladesh in 1971. While doing so, the article builds on the literature on disaster and electoral politics, historical disasters, and uses hitherto underexplored sources, both official and unofficial, archives, and personal memoirs.

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The final straw? Bhola cyclone, 1970 election, disaster politics, and the making of Bangladesh

Mohammad Mozahidul Islam. 2023. Why Nations Fail to Feed the Poor: The Politics of Food Security in Bangladesh. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781003341451 (ebook); pp. 318, $38.99, ISBN 9781032376943 (hardback); $120.

Book review: Mohammad Mozahidul Islam. 2023. Why Nations Fail to Feed the Poor: The Politics of Food Security in Bangladesh

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The final straw? Bhola cyclone, 1970 election, disaster politics, and the making of Bangladesh

Book review: Mohammad Mozahidul Islam. 2023. Why Nations Fail to Feed the Poor: The Politics of Food Security in Bangladesh