Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis

Earthquakes, floods, drought, and other natural hazards cause tens of thousands of deaths, hundreds of thousands of injuries, and billions of dollars in economic losses each year around the world. Many billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance...

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Main Authors:	Dilley, Maxx, Chen, Robert S., Deichmann, Uwe, Lerner-Lam, Arthur L., Arnold, Margaret
Other Authors:	Agwe, Jonathan
Format:	Publication
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
Subjects:	CENTRAL AMERICA COVERAGE DAMS DISASTER DISASTER MANAGEMENT DISASTER PREPAREDNESS DISASTER PREVENTION DISASTER REDUCTION DISASTER RELIEF DISASTER RISK DISASTER RISK REDUCTION DISASTER-PRONE COUNTRIES EARTHQUAKE EARTHQUAKES ECONOMIC RISK FALLING FLOOD FLOOD PROTECTION FLOODING FLOODS INJURIES INVENTORY LAND USE MACROECONOMIC STABILITY MITIGATION MORTALITY NATURAL DISASTER NATURAL DISASTERS NATURAL HAZARDS PREDICTION PRODUCTIVITY RATES RESERVOIRS RESOURCE ALLOCATION RISK ANALYSIS RISK ASSESSMENT RISK ASSESSMENTS RISK EVALUATION RISK MANAGEMENT SOUTH AMERICA STORM STORMS SUBSIDIARY TOOLS TRANSPORT TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO TSUNAMI URBAN DEVELOPMENT VOLCANO
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/04/6433734/natural-disaster-hotspots-global-risk-analysis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7376

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spelling	okr-10986-73762021-04-23T14:02:30Z Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis Dilley, Maxx Chen, Robert S. Deichmann, Uwe Lerner-Lam, Arthur L. Arnold, Margaret Agwe, Jonathan Buys, Piet Kjevstad, Oddvar Lyon, Bradfield Yetman, Gregory CENTRAL AMERICA COVERAGE DAMS DISASTER DISASTER MANAGEMENT DISASTER PREPAREDNESS DISASTER PREVENTION DISASTER REDUCTION DISASTER RELIEF DISASTER RISK DISASTER RISK REDUCTION DISASTER-PRONE COUNTRIES EARTHQUAKE EARTHQUAKES ECONOMIC RISK FALLING FLOOD FLOOD PROTECTION FLOODING FLOODS INJURIES INVENTORY LAND USE MACROECONOMIC STABILITY MITIGATION MORTALITY NATURAL DISASTER NATURAL DISASTERS NATURAL HAZARDS PREDICTION PRODUCTIVITY RATES RESERVOIRS RESOURCE ALLOCATION RISK ANALYSIS RISK ASSESSMENT RISK ASSESSMENTS RISK EVALUATION RISK MANAGEMENT SOUTH AMERICA STORM STORMS SUBSIDIARY TOOLS TRANSPORT TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO TSUNAMI URBAN DEVELOPMENT VOLCANO Earthquakes, floods, drought, and other natural hazards cause tens of thousands of deaths, hundreds of thousands of injuries, and billions of dollars in economic losses each year around the world. Many billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance, emergency loans, and development aid are expended annually. Yet efforts to reduce the risks of natural hazards remain largely uncoordinated across different hazard types and do not necessarily focus on areas at highest risk of disaster. Natural Disaster Hotspots presents a global view of major natural disaster risk hotspots - areas at relatively high risk of loss from one or more natural hazards. It summarizes the results of an interdisciplinary analysis of the location and characteristics of hotspots for six natural hazards - earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, floods, drought, and cyclones. Data on these hazards are combined with state-of-the-art data on the sub-national distribution of population and economic output and past disaster losses to identify areas at relatively high risk from one or more hazards. 2012-06-07T14:12:21Z 2012-06-07T14:12:21Z 2005 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/04/6433734/natural-disaster-hotspots-global-risk-analysis 978-0-8213-5930-3 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7376 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research :: Publication Publications & Research :: Publication
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topic	CENTRAL AMERICA COVERAGE DAMS DISASTER DISASTER MANAGEMENT DISASTER PREPAREDNESS DISASTER PREVENTION DISASTER REDUCTION DISASTER RELIEF DISASTER RISK DISASTER RISK REDUCTION DISASTER-PRONE COUNTRIES EARTHQUAKE EARTHQUAKES ECONOMIC RISK FALLING FLOOD FLOOD PROTECTION FLOODING FLOODS INJURIES INVENTORY LAND USE MACROECONOMIC STABILITY MITIGATION MORTALITY NATURAL DISASTER NATURAL DISASTERS NATURAL HAZARDS PREDICTION PRODUCTIVITY RATES RESERVOIRS RESOURCE ALLOCATION RISK ANALYSIS RISK ASSESSMENT RISK ASSESSMENTS RISK EVALUATION RISK MANAGEMENT SOUTH AMERICA STORM STORMS SUBSIDIARY TOOLS TRANSPORT TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO TSUNAMI URBAN DEVELOPMENT VOLCANO
spellingShingle	CENTRAL AMERICA COVERAGE DAMS DISASTER DISASTER MANAGEMENT DISASTER PREPAREDNESS DISASTER PREVENTION DISASTER REDUCTION DISASTER RELIEF DISASTER RISK DISASTER RISK REDUCTION DISASTER-PRONE COUNTRIES EARTHQUAKE EARTHQUAKES ECONOMIC RISK FALLING FLOOD FLOOD PROTECTION FLOODING FLOODS INJURIES INVENTORY LAND USE MACROECONOMIC STABILITY MITIGATION MORTALITY NATURAL DISASTER NATURAL DISASTERS NATURAL HAZARDS PREDICTION PRODUCTIVITY RATES RESERVOIRS RESOURCE ALLOCATION RISK ANALYSIS RISK ASSESSMENT RISK ASSESSMENTS RISK EVALUATION RISK MANAGEMENT SOUTH AMERICA STORM STORMS SUBSIDIARY TOOLS TRANSPORT TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO TSUNAMI URBAN DEVELOPMENT VOLCANO Dilley, Maxx Chen, Robert S. Deichmann, Uwe Lerner-Lam, Arthur L. Arnold, Margaret Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis
description	Earthquakes, floods, drought, and other natural hazards cause tens of thousands of deaths, hundreds of thousands of injuries, and billions of dollars in economic losses each year around the world. Many billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance, emergency loans, and development aid are expended annually. Yet efforts to reduce the risks of natural hazards remain largely uncoordinated across different hazard types and do not necessarily focus on areas at highest risk of disaster. Natural Disaster Hotspots presents a global view of major natural disaster risk hotspots - areas at relatively high risk of loss from one or more natural hazards. It summarizes the results of an interdisciplinary analysis of the location and characteristics of hotspots for six natural hazards - earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, floods, drought, and cyclones. Data on these hazards are combined with state-of-the-art data on the sub-national distribution of population and economic output and past disaster losses to identify areas at relatively high risk from one or more hazards.
author2	Agwe, Jonathan
author_facet	Agwe, Jonathan Dilley, Maxx Chen, Robert S. Deichmann, Uwe Lerner-Lam, Arthur L. Arnold, Margaret
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author	Dilley, Maxx Chen, Robert S. Deichmann, Uwe Lerner-Lam, Arthur L. Arnold, Margaret
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title	Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis
title_short	Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis
title_full	Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis
title_fullStr	Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis
title_full_unstemmed	Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis
title_sort	natural disaster hotspots: a global risk analysis
publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate	2012
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/04/6433734/natural-disaster-hotspots-global-risk-analysis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7376
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Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis

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