Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis

Dilley, Maxx ; Chen, Robert S. ; Deichmann, Uwe ; Lerner-Lam, Arthur L. ; Arnold, Margaret

Washington, DC:World Bank

关键词: CENTRAL AMERICA;    COVERAGE;    DAMS;    DISASTER;    DISASTER MANAGEMENT;   

DOI  :  10.1596/0-8213-5930-4
RP-ID  :  34423

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Earthquakes, floods, drought, and othernatural hazards cause tens of thousands of deaths, hundredsof thousands of injuries, and billions of dollars ineconomic losses each year around the world. Many billions ofdollars in humanitarian assistance, emergency loans, anddevelopment aid are expended annually. Yet efforts to reducethe risks of natural hazards remain largely uncoordinatedacross different hazard types and do not necessarily focuson areas at highest risk of disaster. Natural DisasterHotspots presents a global view of major natural disasterrisk hotspots - areas at relatively high risk of loss fromone or more natural hazards. It summarizes the results of aninterdisciplinary analysis of the location andcharacteristics of hotspots for six natural hazards -earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, floods, drought, andcyclones. Data on these hazards are combined withstate-of-the-art data on the sub-national distribution ofpopulation and economic output and past disaster losses toidentify areas at relatively high risk from one or more hazards.