ABSTRACT
On 8 November 2013, Super Typhoon “Haiyan” made landfall in the Philippines. As one of the strongest typhoons on record, Haiyan caused mass destruction on numerous islands in the country (United States Agency for International Development, 2014). Approximately 16 million people were affected across 139 communities in 44 provinces, where over 6,000 individuals died, 28,000 were injured, and four million individuals were displaced – many of whom were unable to return (Aguirre & Cadiz, 2015). The 12.5 billion-dollar economic impact made Haiyan the sixth-costliest disaster in recorded history (Aguirre & Cadiz, 2015). Disasters such as Haiyan have become increasingly prevalent and costly: The economic burden of natural disaster response and recovery was estimated to cost 20 million dollars a year during the 1990s and substantially increased to approximately 100 billion dollars a year between 2000 and 2010, with millions of people affected (International Monetary Fund, 2012).
