Social impacts of tropical cyclones??

Question

i have to do an assignment for geography and i have to find the socal, economic and environmental impacts on tropical cyclones.

please help! the internet says that social and economic are the same so im not having luck findong info...

Answer 1

The economic impacts of a tropical cyclone could be the loss of income, this means that people who grow food crops and harvests but are wiped out by storm surges of torrential rain. A long term effect of this is with the destruction of crops people will have no trade so they would have no money. This makes it harder to rebuild after a cyclone. Economic impacts relate to money and the loss of it.

Other social impacts, which remain unaccounted for, are on education and culture, health and nutrition, labor and employment and social services. Aside from the total or partial damage to school-buildings are the lost school hours during typhoons or when schoolhouses are used as evacuation centers, the lost opportunity to continue one’s studies due to loss of income, etc. The impact on health could be measured to some extent through mortality rates during disasters, which are closely related to infectious diseases, that to a large extent depend on the quality of water consumed and to access to adequate sanitation services (ECLAC, 2003). Some third order impacts may result after the occurrence of disasters, such as increased burden on urban resources  due to migration of displaced local workers to the cities for jobs, increased dependence on government subsidies, worsening the poverty situation, etc. (CAB T.P. No. 2001-7)



anyway you are right, the social and economic impacts are the same. here i'll give you e brief example just like what did happened in cyclone justin (March 1997):

Many of the other social impacts of Cyclone Justin go hand in hand with the economic ones. For instance, some farmers only source of income is their crops, so when their crops were destroyed they didn’t have anything left. This would have being a very stressful time as they would have to find another way to make money in order to rebuild their properties/crops. This could have induced mental anguish on some of the farmers and resulted in them giving up on farming and moving away altogether. A similar situation would be felt by those who were rendered unemployed by the cyclone, as they wouldn’t have an income stream to support themselves on.

so to get a detail answer you should specified which tropical cyclone is you wanna figure out.