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Chapter 6 Urbanization and climate change risk 114
Box 6.1 Key organizations and concepts in climate change 116
Table 6.1 Climate change impacts on urban areas 117
Box 6.2 Cooperating on flood risk in Saint-Louis, Senegal 120
Table 6.2 Gender and climate vulnerability 122
Box 6.3 Urban flooding in Ireland 124
Box 6.4 After the storm 126
Table 6.3 Examples of climate change and disaster preparedness
goals and actions 129
Box 6.5 Building resilience as a strategy for climate change
adaptation and disaster risk reduction 131
Chapter 7 Urban governance and disaster
risk reduction 138
Box 7.1 Disaster preparedness and climate change adaptation
in Durban, South Africa 141
Box 7.2 Latin American cities expand over high-risk areas 143
Box 7.3 Good governance and disaster risk reduction in Aceh 148
Annexes
Annex 1 Disaster data 160
Table 1 Total number of reported disasters, by continent,
by year and by level of human development (2000 to 2009) 166
Table 2 Total number of people reported killed, by continent,
by year and by level of human development (2000 to 2009) 167
World Disasters Report 2010 – Focus on urban risk
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