Earthquake In Turkey In A Geopolitical Context (II)
Leonid Savin- Current estimates of the economic impact from the disaster include nearly $70 billion in housing losses and another $10.4 billion in economic loss.
External Assessments
Erol Yaybok of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, DC) focuses on sociаl issues. He notes that beyond the first active phase of search and rescue operations, the physical and psychological human impact will be far greater and longer lasting. Therefore, international donors and NGOs will need to draw on lessons from other rapid onset disasters (e.g., tsunami and hurricane relief) which share similar destructive qualities, to learn how to coordinate assistance, to build local resilience, and to draw from and strengthen local response structures.
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