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

Contents
International Federation of Red Cross
and Red Crescent Societies inside front cover
Acknowledgements 2
Introduction 7
Focus on urban risk
Chapter 1 Avoiding the urbanization of disasters 10
Table 1.1 Growth in the world’s urban and rural population
(millions of inhabitants) 12
Figure 1.1 Distribution of fatalities and economic loss
from tropical cyclones per year 13
Box 1.1 Urban myths and misconceptions 19
Table 1.2 What different aspects of urban poverty imply
for everyday and disaster risk 21
Box 1.2 Can Haiti build back better? 23
Chapter 2 Urban disaster trends 30
Figure 2.1 Growth in urban population globally and by region 32
Figure 2.2 The change in the average population size
of the world’s 100 largest cities, 1800 to 2000 33
Figure 2.3 Changes in the proportion of GDP for low-
and middle-income nations, 1950–2005 33
Table 2.1 Large disaster events over the period 2000–2010
impacting on cities 35
Box 2.1 Tropical Storm Ketsana and urban food insecurity 38
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