Türkiye’de Doğal Afetlerin Makroekonomik Etkileri Üzerine Bir İnceleme

Turkey is a country that frequently faces natural disasters due to its geographical location. This study aims to provide a multidimensional evaluation of the impacts of disasters, not only in terms of their immediate destruction but also their long-term economic consequences. Accordingly, an empirical analysis was conducted using the ARDL(Autoregressive Distributed Lag) bounds testing approach to examine the mocroeconomic effects of geological, meteorological, hydrological, biological, and climatological disasters that occurred between 1974 and 2023. The analysis utilized a dataset consistind of Natural Disaster Costs, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Foreign Direct Inverstment, Domestic Investment disaster costs have a positive long-term effect on the national economy. This result is associated with the contributions of post disaster recovery and reconstruction processes to economic growth.