Description: Extensive disasters are responsible for only a small proportion of global disaster mortality (Figure 2.20), they account for a very significant proportion of damage to public assets, such as health and educational facilities and infrastructure, as well as to the livelihoods, houses and assets of low-income groups. Many recording disaster loss, but most extensive disaster losses go unaccounted for.
Published in: 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction - Revealing Risk, Redefining Development
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