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ANNEX 1 174 Table 9 Total number of reported disasters, by type of phenomenon, by continent and by level of human development1 (2000 to 2009) Africa Americas Asia Europe Oceania VHHD HHD MHD LHD Total Droughts / food insecurity 126 57 73 15 2 15 29 154 75 273 Earthquakes / tsunamis 24 43 173 39 11 38 55 177 20 290 Extreme temperatures 5 40 60 130 2 72 91 70 4 237 Floods2 421 356 655 259 48 236 372 870 261 1,739 Forest / scrub fires 13 53 14 52 10 77 37 23 5 142 Insect infestation 12 1 1 1 2 2 2 6 7 17 Mass movement: dry3 1 3 3 n.d.r. 1 n.d.r. 2 6 n.d.r. 8 Mass movement: wet4 13 38 122 14 6 8 40 137 8 193 Volcanic eruptions 7 23 19 1 11 4 18 35 4 61 Windstorms 94 329 416 150 65 366 159 489 40 1,054 Subtotal climato-, hydro- & 684 874 1,341 621 135 776 730 1,749 400 3,655 meteorological disasters Subtotal geophysical 32 69 195 40 23 42 75 218 24 359 disasters Total natural disasters 716 943 1,536 661 158 818 805 1,967 424 4,014 Industrial accidents 68 23 414 52 n.d.r. 22 51 454 30 557 Miscellaneous accidents 114 66 212 72 2 56 91 283 36 466 Transport accidents 884 302 741 211 9 169 342 1,369 267 2,147 Total technological 1,066 391 1,367 335 11 247 484 2,106 333 3,170 disasters Total 1,782 1,334 2,903 996 169 1,065 1,289 4,073 757 7,184 Source: EM-DAT, CRED, University of Louvain, Belgium
During the decade: Asia accounted for 40 per cent of the total number of disasters but for 74 per cent of industrial accidents, 63 per cent of mass movements of hydrological origin, 60 per cent of earthquakes / tsunamis and 45 per cent of miscellaneous accidents. 1 VHHD stands for very high human development, HHD stands for high human development, MHD for medium human development and LHD for low human development. See note on UNDP’s Human Development Index country status in the section on disaster definitions in the introduction to this annex. Africa accounted for 25 per cent of the total number of disasters but for 71 per cent of insect infestations, 46 per cent of droughts / food insecurity events and 41 per cent of transport accidents. 2 Includes waves and surges. 3 Landslides, rockfalls, subsidence of geophysical origin. Americas accounted for 19 per cent of the total number of disasters but for 38 per cent of volcanic eruptions 37 per cent of wild fires and 31 per cent of windstorms. 4 Landslides, avalanches, subsidence of hydrological origin. Europe accounted for 14 per cent of the total number of disasters but for 55 per cent of extreme temperatures and for 37 per cent of wild fires. Note: ’n.a.’ signifies ’no data available’; ’n.d.r.’ signifies ’no disaster reported’. For more information, see section on caveats in introductory text. Oceania accounted for 2 per cent of the total number of disasters but for 18 per cent of volcanic eruptions, 7 per cent of wild fires and 6 per cent of windstorms. World Disasters Report 2010 – Disaster data ANNEX 1 175
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Contents International Federation o
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Chapter 6 Urbanization and climate
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Annex 2 Making cities resilient: A
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Avoiding the urbanization of disast
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The last few decades have also brou
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institutions. Poor people have a lo
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Box 1.2 Can Haiti build back better
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was ‘illegal’, makes reconstruc
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Urban disaster trends It is well kn
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about 65 per cent of the world’s
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With the exception of the South Asi
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fires and traffic accidents. Buildi
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large cities in low- and middle-inc
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Figure 2.5 Port cities with highest
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expansion is driving risk in many A
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know the phone number) and the fire
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Munich Re Group. Topics Annual Revi
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Starting over: Community rights and
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on this. However, it is complicated
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all those in the evacuation centre)
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those affected, help them get organ
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disaster events. Governments often
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In urban areas, rebuilding homes an
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ownership or other formalized/legal
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Sources and further information Ade
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Urban violence As more people crowd
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Table 4.1 Measuring inequality Coun
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Crisis of legitimacy Many states wi
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At the same time, many of the world
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can help, but - as the Organisation
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Fukuyama, F. ‘A Quiet Revolution:
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Tedesco, L. Latin American States -
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Urban risk to health The rapid rise
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are malnourished, compared with 16
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show that prices of imported rice a
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pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria, meas
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SARS caused near global panic for a
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Urban life affects the way people w
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The Red Cross has 90 first-aid stat
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private life. Equally significant a
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Sources and further information Bur
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World Economic Forum. Global Risks
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Urbanization and climate change ris
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more frequent hot days and nights,
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impacts of changing precipitation p
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feedback have all been used to help
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