How Natural Disasters Affect Poverty Thomasina Barney Iowa State University Agronomy 342 October 2009

Impact to countries bordering Indian Ocean

Final death toll exceeding 230,000

( Synolakis, 2004)

Largest peace time aid operation in history (Moszynski. 2006)

Threats to relief efforts

Monsoon floods & land mines

Over 1 million estimated homeless

(Moszynski, 2006)

- interviewed 40 widows & widowers along east

coast

Men verses Women

(Hyndman, 2008)

Field Observations – offshore hazards

Inundation maps

( Synolakis, 2004)

October 14 to coincide with the World Disaster Reduction Day

Test NTWC;s JMA & PTWC

Hope to conduct at community level, coastal communities

Hyndman, Jennifer. “Feminism, Conflict and Disasters in Post-tsunami Sri Lanka.” Hyndman, Jennifer. Gender, Technology and Development, Vol. 12 No.1, 101-121. 2008.

Synolakis, Costas Okal, Emile & Bernard, Eddie. “The Megatsunami of December 26, 2004.” usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/2005/pdf/Bridge-v35n2.pdf