Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID)
Publication Year:
2009
Publication Place
Canberra, Australia
Physical Description:
42 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
36093
Legacy PEIN ID:
76096
General Notes
Available online
Available online
Subject Heading(s)
Disaster risk - Reduction policy - Australian
Abstract
Disasters can wipe out years of hard-won development progress, devastate lives and livelihoods and cripple developing economies. In 2008, 321 natural disasters killed over 235 000 people, affected the lives of more than 211 million and cost over US$181 billion.1 As the impacts of climate change worsen, the frequency and severity of natural disasters are likely to increase. But natural hazards, such as cyclones, earthquakes and tsunamis do not need to become natural disasters. While disasters are generally triggered by a natural hazard event, the impact on communities is a direct result of vulnerability related to complex development factors, such as poverty, disability and gender inequality.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID)
Publication Year:
2009
Publication Place
Canberra, Australia
Physical Description:
42 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
36093
Legacy PEIN ID:
76096
General Notes
Available online
Record Created: 16-Oct-2009
Record Modified: 23-Feb-2021