Factors affecting post-disaster location choices of businesses: an analysis of the 1999 earthquake

• Published in: Environmental hazards Vol. 16; no. 4; pp. 363 - 382
• Main Author: Orhan, Ezgi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Taylor & Francis 02.10.2017; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: business recovery; Choices; Companies; Disaster management; Disasters; Earthquake damage; Earthquakes; Empirical analysis; Households; Impact damage; location choices of businesses; Occupancy; Policies; Post-disaster recovery; Random sampling; Recovery; Risk reduction; Seismic activity; urban spatial structure; Turkey

Despite global policies advocating risk reduction and community level recovery, post-disaster implementations usually focus on households, but fail to focus on businesses in spatial terms. Due to the lack of appropriate policy and tools, businesses often make their own location choices as part of th...