17 Feb 2016
Between 1994 and 2013, EM-DAT recorded 6,873 natural disasters worldwide, which claimed 1.35 million lives or almost 68,000 lives on average each year. In addition, 218 million people were affected by natural disasters on average per annum during ...
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18 Oct 2013
This report examines the relationship between disasters and poverty. It concludes that, without concerted action, there could be up to 325 million extremely poor people living in the 49 countries most exposed to the full range of natural hazards...
Tags: Report, Climate Change Adaptation, Drought, Flood
30 Nov 2014
Strategic Research into National and Local Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management Between 2013 and 2015, the IFRC contracted Oxford Policy Management and the University of East Anglia to conduct “Strategic Research into National and Loc...
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