A 30-year panel dataset tracks disaster risk reduction and response capacity across 11 Southeast Asian nations. It was created by Laura Southgate for the DG-HUB project to identify strategies for strengthening regional disaster responses. The data covers national laws, institutional arrangements, early warning systems, financing, and health-system capacity from 1991 to 2021.
Use Cases
- Analyzing the evolution of national disaster management laws and policies over time.
- Comparing institutional arrangements and emergency response systems across 11 Southeast Asian countries.
- Modeling relationships between disaster financing mechanisms and wider social and economic conditions relevant to resilience.
- Assessing the development of early warning and communication mechanisms across the region.
Strengths
- Covers 11 Southeast Asian countries consistently from 1991 to 2021, providing a 30-year temporal scope.
- Includes variables across multiple thematic areas such as laws, strategies, institutions, and financing mentioned in the description.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale statistical modeling.
Provenance
- Source
- Harvard Dataverse, authored by Laura Southgate.
- Collection Method
- Created as part of the project 'Disaster Impact, Risk Reduction and Regime Type in Southeast Asia (DG-HUB)'.
- Time Range
- 1991 to 2021
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-30 21:25:49; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Viet Nam.