Stankl Mundigraph: January 2009

1 Jan 2009

Map of some drought risk reduction networks around the world

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Percentage of undernourished population, by country, 2003-2005

Description: Gathering and sharing this type of information is essential for analyzing drought vulnerabilities and helping decision makers target mitigation actions that will help address the real causes of drought impacts.
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Number of municipalities needing to increase transport of water supply or cut/reduce household supply

Description: The number of Portugese municipalities that were forced to increased water supplies or implement water supply cuts/reductions. This type of impact assessment is essential for identifying vulnerable sectors and populations, and targeting limited resources to high-priority needs.
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Number of persons reported affected by drought disasters: 1970-2008

Description: The number of people affected by drought and the types of impacts experienced will vary by region (Figure 4). In the Asian region, in particular, India and China recorded the largest number of people affected by drought from 1980 to 2006.
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Number of drought disasters reported by country: 1970-2008

Description: Some regions are more prone to drought disasters, and each country differs in its capacity to effectively prepare for and respond to the effects of drought..
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Proportion of persons affected by each disaster type per continent: 1970-2008

Description: When drought occur, they result in a larger proportion of the population being affected by drought than by other disasters. Drought disasters account for less than 20 percent of all disaster occurrences in Africa, but they account for more than 80 percent of all people affected by natural disasters in the continent.
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Proportion of disaster occurrence by continent: 1970-2008

Description: Drought tends to occur less frequently than other hazards. However, when it does occur, it generally affects a broad region for seasons or years at a time.
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Housing damage by extensive flood events, Nepal

Description: In Nepal, extensive flood risk and associated housing damage is concentrated in the densely populated alluvial plains of south-eastern Nepal in the Terai region. Floods in this case are not a consequence of urbanization or population density, but a cause. The richness of the soils is due to the frequent replenishment of nutrients through flooding and the reason why the region can support such a large dense population.
Published in: ISDR (2009) Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Distribution of housing damage in extensive flood and heavy rain loss reports in Tamil Nadu, India (1970–2007)

Description: In Tamil Nadu, India there is a concentration of extensive risk housing damage around urban centres in the north-east of the state. While poorly studied, flooding would seem to be associated with the high level of urbanization and associated problems of settlement of low-lying areas, increased run-off and inadequate drainage. In Chennai, for example, 18.9% of the urban population was living in slums in 2001. However, the other concentration of housing damage is along the floodplain of the Kaveri River, in the watershed of the Ponnaiyar River and in the Kambam Valley. Tamil Nadu has a long history of chain-tank irrigation – a system that has fallen into disuse. Much flood damage in rural areas is associated with chain-tank failure and the silting of irrigation channels. In upland areas, increasing extensive flood risk may be associated with issues of environmental degradation.
Published in: ISDR (2009) Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Redistribution of extensive landslide risk in central Peru between 1970–1985 and 1986–2006

Description: These maps shows that in Peru the distribution of loss reports associated with landslides has moved eastwards, following the opening of new roads into the Amazon.
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Spatial evolution of extensive weather-related loss reports in Ecuador from 1970–2007

Description: These maps shows how over the last four decades the distribution of extensive weather-related loss reports in Ecuador has followed the process of territorial occupation, from the country’s Andean backbone westwards into the Pacific lowlands and eastwards into the Amazon.
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Extensive flood reports in Cali, Colombia (1950–2000)

Description: These maps shows local loss reports from floods in Cali, Colombia since the 1950s. The number of flood loss reports mirrors the expansion of the city, mainly through the occupation of land for informal settlement without a corresponding investment in drainage infrastructure.
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Precipitations in Costa Rica

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Floods and rains in Colombia as a proportion of all extensive weather-related loss reports, 1970–1979 and 1998–2007

Description: In Colombia, floods, flash floods and heavy rains accounted for 43% of extensive weather-related disasters in the 1970s but 53% in the last decade.
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Number of flood and rain extensive risk loss reports (1980–2006)

Description: This graph illustrates, the number of loss reports associated with floods and heavy rains is increasing at a far faster rate than all other categories of weather-related hazards, particularly since 1990.
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Comparison of extensive (above) and intensive (below) risk loss reports, Orissa, India (1970–2007)

Description: These maps indicate that in Orissa manifestations of intensive risk tend to occur in areas with the most frequent manifestations of extensive risk.
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Number of extensive risk reports, Mexico (1980–1989, 1990–1999, 2000–2006)

Description: These maps highlights that the number of states with manifestations of extensive risk in Mexico has consistently grown over recent decades.
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Number of municipalities across the sample affected by extensive weather-related risk (1980–2006)

Description: This graph illustrates the consistent increase in the annual number of affected local administrative areas. The number of local areas with 1–9 loss reports between 1980 and 2007 has doubled and those with 10–49 loss reports has almost quintupled. This confirms that many new local areas are now characterized by weather-related extensive risk, while the frequency of losses has also increased.
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Extensive weather-related mortality (left) and housing damage (right) – all countries (1980–2006) Number of houses damaged per loss report

Description: This graph shows the average number of deaths per loss report is actually going down while the number of houses damaged per loss report is increasing.
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A comparison of extensive housing damage (left) and intensive housing destruction (right) in Tamil Nadu, India (1976–2007)

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Extensive loss reports in Iran associated with earthquakes

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Weather-related extensive loss reports by hazard type across sample

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Sri Lanka extensive (left) and intensive (right) loss reports (1970–2007)

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Armenia, Colombia earthquake (1999) – extensive and intensive impacts

Description: The case of the earthquake in Armenia, Colombia on 25th January, 1999, eight municipalities intensively concentrated 98% of the deaths and 95% of the destroyed houses. The remaining 2% of deaths and 5% of destroyed housing were spread extensively over 23 municipalities in very different geographic areas. These losses were associated with a single hazard event. From the global perspective the Armenia earthquake was viewed as a single large-scale disaster. From a local perspective, however, the manifestations of risk were completely different in each municipality.
Published in: ISDR (2009) Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Distribution of mortality associated with intensive and extensive risk across the data set (1980–2006)

Description: This graph shows the distribution of mortality across the sample between 1980 and 2006. The application of the threshold to this mortality distribution clearly illustrates a number of intensive peaks of mortality underpinned by a continuous extensive mortality stream.
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Distribution of Average Density of Fires per 100 Km2 (1997–2008)

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Tsunami Modelling of Manila Bay (The Philippines)

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GDP Exposed to Tsunamis

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Number of People Living in Areas Potentially Affected by Tsunamis

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Sketch of Global Tsunami Hazard

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Exposure and Mortality Risk for Earthquakes of Different Intensities by Income Class

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GDP Exposed to Earthquakes

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People Exposed to Earthquakes

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Mortality and Exposure to Landslides by Income Class

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