Executive Summary In 2022, the Emergency Event Database EM-DAT recorded 387 natural hazards and disasters worldwide, resulting in the loss of 30,704 lives and affecting 185 million individuals...
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Executive Summary In 2022, the Emergency Event Database EM-DAT recorded 387 natural hazards and disasters worldwide, resulting in the loss of 30,704 lives and affecting 185 million individuals...
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While facing the day-to-day news stream, the most recent tragic events, such as heat waves, droughts, forest fires, and monsoon floods last July and August, tend to supersede the recollection of...
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UNDRR report published to mark the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on October 13, 2020, confirms how extreme weather events have come to dominate the disaster landscape in the 21st...
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In 2016, EM-DAT preliminary data indicates that 301 country level disasters occurred, affecting 102 countries. The impact of which sums up to a total of 7,628 deaths, 411 million affected people, and...
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Geneva, 11 July 2014 (WMO) - Weather, climate and water-related disasters are on the rise worldwide, causing loss of life and setting back economic and social development by years, if not decades...
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Natural Disasters in Asia Analyses of EM-DAT disaster statistics for the last decades provide us with insights on the trends and patterns of disaster occurrence and impact, both globally and in...
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Natural Disasters in Countries with Very High Human Development Merely halfway through the year 2011, disaster figures continue to show the tremendous impacts that natural disasters have on human...