06.12.2012 Views

World Disasters Report 2010 - International Federation of Red Cross ...

World Disasters Report 2010 - International Federation of Red Cross ...

World Disasters Report 2010 - International Federation of Red Cross ...

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

expansion is driving risk in many Asian and African cities, too – and quite possibly even<br />

more strongly than in the above examples from Latin America, since a much lower proportion<br />

<strong>of</strong> the population in Asian and African cities have infrastructure and services.<br />

Figure 2.6<br />

Geographic distribution and frequency <strong>of</strong> registered<br />

flooding events between 1950 and 1990 in Cali, Colombia<br />

1950–59<br />

1970–79<br />

1960–69<br />

1980–89<br />

Source: OSSO (2008)<br />

Record<br />

Between<br />

2 and 5<br />

Between<br />

6 and 10<br />

Between<br />

11 and 20<br />

Between<br />

21 and 50<br />

Vision four: Settlement-scale data for fire disasters<br />

Another vision <strong>of</strong> urban risk is <strong>of</strong>fered by the Monitoring, Mapping and Analysis<br />

<strong>of</strong> Disaster Incidents in South Africa (MANDISA) database, which has records for<br />

18,504 fire events in Cape Town, South Africa from January 1995 to the end <strong>of</strong> 2004.<br />

The database, unique to Cape Town, provides an extremely detailed picture <strong>of</strong> fire risk,<br />

and shows us the massive extent <strong>of</strong> small-scale disaster events that are usually not part<br />

<strong>World</strong> <strong>Disasters</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2010</strong> – Focus on urban risk<br />

43

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!