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Comparing the direct human impact of natural disasters for two cases: The Christchurch earthquake and Bangkok flood in 2011

This paper presents a novel way to aggregate separate measures of disaster impact and apply it to two recent catastrophic events: the Christchurch (New Zealand) earthquakes and the Greater Bangkok (Thailand) floods of 2011. It focuses exclusively on the direct impact of disasters. Similar to the World Health Organization's calculation of Disability Adj…

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