Description: This Technical Report presents a comprehensive analysis of weather-related and geological disasters in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, the State of Palestine, Tunisia and Yemen, based on the methodology and tools developed by UNISDR. It provides a historical review of disaster trends over a 30-year period based on each country’s nationally-accounted disaster losses and focuses on frequency, mortality and economic losses indicators. The outcome serves as a sound basis for well-informed decisions towards disaster risk reduction interventions and highlights the importance of carrying out such flood risk analysis at the country level to prioritize actions in this regard.
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Description: The fourth edition of the United
Nations Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction is a resource for
understanding and analysing global disaster risk today and in the future. It
also contains HFA progress reports assessing national strategic priorities in
the implementation of disaster risk reduction actions and establishes baselines
on levels of progress achieved in implementing the HFA's five priorities for
action. You can download from the full-report in English by clicking on the
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Description: The fourth edition of the United
Nations Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction is a resource for
understanding and analysing global disaster risk today and in the future. It
also contains HFA progress reports assessing national strategic priorities in
the implementation of disaster risk reduction actions and establishes baselines
on levels of progress achieved in implementing the HFA's five priorities for
action. You can download from the full-report in English by clicking on the
image above. Published
in:
2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction - Executive Summary, The Pocket GARCopyright ©
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Description: The fourth edition of the United Nations Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction is a resource for understanding and analysing global disaster risk today and in the future. It also contains HFA progress reports assessing national strategic priorities in the implementation of disaster risk reduction actions and establishes baselines on levels of progress achieved in implementing the HFA's five priorities for action. You can download from the full-report in English by clicking on the image above.
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2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction - Making Development Sustainable: The Future of Disaster Risk Management
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Description: Mozambique is one of the few countries with a disaster database that systematically records drought losses, so the real scale of drought risk becomes visible. Since 1990, drought events damaged 8 million hectares of crops (half of which were destroyed) and affected 11.5 million people. Thus, international under-reporting of drought losses undermines the visibility of drought risk and the political and economic imperative for its reduction, and also hides the significant implications for livelihoods of small-scale farmers, especially elderly and women farmers and female-headed households.
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Description: The number of rainfall stations maintained by Spain’s national meteorological agency, AEMET has declined to almost half of the peak of the mid-1970s.Published in: 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction - Revealing Risk, Redefining DevelopmentCopyright © United Nations 2011. All Rights Reserved.
Description: Annual snowfall has been decreasing during the past 80 years in the Navajo Nation, and by the 1960s more than 30 major rivers and bodies of water upon which the Navajo relied for livestock and agricultural production had dried up. Since then, the soil has become drier due to higher temperatures during the warmest months, further increasing water stress.
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Description: This map shows, 220 out of the 302 counties (73%) with annual mortality rates greater than 15 per million had average annual household incomes of less than US$40 000. Many are sparsely populated counties in the north-to-southwest corridor mentioned above..Published in: 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction - Revealing Risk, Redefining DevelopmentCopyright © United Nations 2011. All Rights Reserved.
Description: The highest extensive risk mortality rates are strongly associated with a wide geographical corridor that stretches from the north to the southwest of the United States of America, through the states of North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas.Published in: 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction - Revealing Risk, Redefining DevelopmentCopyright © United Nations 2011. All Rights Reserved.
Description: This graph shows that even when normalized by GDP per capita, economic loss is rising.
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Description: This graph shows that, compared with the other countries in the data universe, mortality in extensive disasters in the United States of America is falling.Published in: 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction - Revealing Risk, Redefining DevelopmentCopyright © United Nations 2011. All Rights Reserved.
Description: Unlike low- and middle-income-countries, mortality due to disasters in the United States of America is extensively distributed. Most (89%) of the mortality since 1960 corresponds to extensive disasters.Published in: 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction - Revealing Risk, Redefining DevelopmentCopyright © United Nations 2011. All Rights Reserved.
Description: These global trends in risk vary widely from country to country, indicating that risk accumulation processes that mirror development are as heterogeneous as development itself. However countries with stronger risk governance capacities appear better able to reduce mortality than to reduce the numbers of houses damaged and people affected. The increase in extensive mortality risk reported in countries like Bolivia, Mozambique (see map), Nepal and Yemen reflect low levels of development. In contrast, mortality risk in Chile and Costa Rica is falling while the rate of housing damage is rising.
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Description: Spatially, the expansion of extensive risk mirrors urban and regional development and hence increasing population and asset exposure. Across all 21 countries and states, the number of local administrative areas reporting disaster losses has increased more or less continuously over the
past 20 years.Published in: 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction - Revealing Risk, Redefining DevelopmentCopyright © United Nations 2011. All Rights Reserved.
Description: The number of houses damaged relative to population growth in all 21 countries and states has increased by approximately 600% since the early 1990s.
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Description: Looking at the longer-term picture, the past 20 years have seen a significant increase in the number of local areas reporting losses, the number of houses damaged, the number of people affected and the damage to health and educational facilities associated with extensive disasters. This reinforces the view that the rapid increases in both population and GDP exposure.
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Description: Jordan, the Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen (Figure 2.23) have recently published national disaster inventories, included in GAR11, and it is expected that the other two countries will soon follow. Mozambique and the Arab states also plan to include age- and genderenabled indicators when such information is available..
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Description: The Central American countries of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Panama illustrate where extensive risk exists wherever development occurs. All Panama’s municipal areas report extensive disaster losses even though the country lies south of the Caribbean hurricane belt and earthquakes are infrequent.
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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.
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